Better Births and Better Birth Experiences. This practice is all about a pregnancy program designed to help women achieve the type of birth they are envisioning. We shepherd families through the birth choices and through their birthing process.
There has been a C-section epidemic in the last 50 years. Today, cesarean sections represent over 30% of all deliveries. This is a dramatic increase from the mere 5% of babies delivered via C-section in 1970. The explanations for the multiple fold increase in cesarean delivery are familiar. Fingers often point at the bias of over-worked obstetricians, the increase in counterproductive medical interventions like induction of labor and the widespread use of the fetal heart rate monitoring.
There's a tendency to believe, actually more than believe, to have faith in Mother Nature. And Why not? Women have been birthing vaginally for millennia and we have no reason to suspect a pregnant woman would grow a baby that cannot physiologically pass through her birth canal. It's more than common sense, It's history. All mammals birth as humans do.
Therefore, there is absolutely no historical indication that 30% of mothers and or babies would have perished or sustained long term morbidity before the advent of c-sections. Further, we do not see this in the animal kingdom. Both domesticated and wild animals birth mainly unassisted
The short answer is we have deviated from nature and mightily so. Our diets, our lifestyle, and our expectations have all evolved or possibly devolved. For most of us, modern society represents a sedentary lifestyle. It is synonymous with processed food and we are consuming carbohydrate consumption on a scale never seen before. Babies are bigger than ever and growing them is turning out to be much easier than delivering them.
We want to help change all that. We want to educate you and your family to have the birth you envision. The birth the way nature intended.
