Natural Family Blog Archive 🌹 The First 20 Years

Unassisted Birth
Is It for You?
By Shel Franco

Expecting Andrew in 1996 – Jenny with Michelle, Allison, and Jeffrey
“Women today seem to fall into two categories where childbirth is concerned: medically managed or natural. The first group wouldn’t think of delivering their babies any place but the hospital. The second sweetly chants, “There’s no place like home.””
…”Sacred Action
Jenny Hatch of Boulder, Colo., gave birth to her son, Andrew. She recalls how she danced and sang through the three-hour labor. “I had no physical pain before, during or after the birth and never used any form of pain medication,” she says.
Hatch, organizer of the second International Husband/Wife Homebirth Conference, delivered her 11-pound son into the waiting arms of his father.”
…”Hatch still believes in childbirth as a normal, non-agonizing, natural act, and that’s something every woman could benefit from, whether she births at home or in a hospital. Replacing the fear with faith just might deliver women from the throws of childbirth agony and into the open arms of the miracle they helped to create.”
Jenny Hatch