Trust Birth

This Is What I Believe

• The decisions that women make concerning their pregnancy and birth should be based on the truth rather than fear and lies.
  
  
• Every woman deserves the right to hear the truth about birth.
  
  
• Women know how to give birth. They may not realize that they do, but they do.
  
  
• Our bodies were designed to give birth just as they were designed to conceive and grow a baby. Our bodies know how to finish what they began.
  
  
• Birth should not be a time in a woman’s life when she has to FIGHT for anything. Birth should not be a battlefield.
  
  
• Birth is not normally a medical event and rarely needs any medical interference.
  
  
• Birth belongs to women and not to their birth attendant.
  
  
• No place is safer for birth than the woman’s home.
  
  
• Interference with birth starts the minute a woman leaves her home. The minute she is in the hospital, she is no longer in charge.
  
  
• Hospitals offer no measure of safety for birth for the average woman and, in fact, increase the chances of many potential complications.
  
  
• Women and their babies are being abused in the name of “safety.” There are too many surgical births, too many epidurals, too many episiotomies, too many inductions, too much monitoring, managing and meddling.
  
  
• Women are being scared and bullied and manipulated.
  
  
• Women are being robbed of the experience of giving birth; babies are being robbed of a peaceful environment in which to be born.
  
  
• It is a woman’s right to choose to birth at home with any attendant or no attendant.
  
  
• Natural and normal is not the same as easy and painless and we acknowledge that there is pain for almost every woman, but we know that women live through the pain.
  
  
• The pain of childbirth is not without purpose and chemical means of avoiding the pain of childbirth holds many potential risks for the baby and the birth process.
  
  
• Birth is not always without risk, but I believe that life is not without risk. There are a lot of things more risky than birth.
  
  
• Birth is not the act of rescuing a baby or a mother from death or danger.
  
  
• Mothers are not the enemy of their babies and babies are not going to destroy their mothers in birth. Mothers and babies are symbiotic units, and if left alone, would know what to do.
  
  
• Parents are qualified to become informed about their choices and can make the decision to make all the decisions.