My wife and I have three healthy children and all of them were active births in the comfort of our own home. We would not have had the knowledge and assurance to do this without this wonderfull book.

Below is a brief description of Janet Balaskas’s New Active Birth.

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There is nothing new about active birth delivery; it is something women have naturally done since the beginning of time. The notion of having to lie down on your back during labour is a relatively new principle and simply makes it easier for the birth attendant to manage the procedure.

It has only been for the last 300 years that woman have been disempowered during labour, the invention of the forceps in the 17th century was the beginning of this unnatural act that woman are forced to go through. Child birth is a natural process that most women will instinctively know how to handle.

The anatomy of the women’s pelvis is ideally designed for labour and birth Continue reading Active Birth Positions