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Giving Birth |
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Scott and Nikkie believe in natural childbirth. They had Matthew and Gabrielle at a local hospital, assisted by a midwife, completely natural. Jeremiah and Elijah were born at home, also assisted by a midwife, and also completely natural. Childbirth is a miraculous process, created by God. By avoiding drugs and learning to work with the body rather than fighting against it, a woman is capable of having a wonderful labor experience. And a baby born without the influence of drugs is often more alert and helps the birth process along. A well-trained and learned midwife is capable of watching for emergency situations. Many, before ever having a baby, automatically plan that they will have medications and so forth. They adapt all their friends’ horror tales (tales that came from friends who did have medication) and all of Hollywood’s horrific birth scenes. However, in our experience, everyone we’ve known who has had a natural childbirth experience, tells their birth stories with much more pleasure and peacefulness and much less complications. Therefore, we completely believe that natural, unmedicated childbirth is the best method. |
