Obstetricians Warn That Unassisted Home Births Are NOT Safe

Canadian obstetricians are worried about a growing trend of parents who are opting to have unassisted homebirths or ‘freebirths’.

Proponents argue a freebirth is more relaxed and pleasurable, and a mother’s own intuition trumps hospitals, drugs and medical experts. Opponents argue it is dangerous.
Information about how to give birth alone has proliferated in books like Primal [...]