Empowering Birth Blog

If you absolutely need pitocin, take it slow! http://www.themidwifenextdoor.com/?p=587

Home Birth Dad

Are you a Dad to be?  Thinking about planning or planning a home birth? Read this fantastic article that was published in Mothering magazine!  http://www.venbatista.com/files/7_Secrets_of_Being_a_Homebirth_Dad.pdf.

I should add that midwives and their birth assistants usually do almost all (or all) of the clean up after a home birth.  We might leave you with a load of laundry to transfer to the dryer, or a birth tub of water to empty, but that is usually about it.

Here is another look at home birth from the Dad's perspective, http://mothering.com/pregnancy-birth/you-want-give-birth-where.

And here is a great story of a birth center birth written by a Dad who got to be the birth assistant, http://seasonsoflifebirthcenter.blogspot.com/2009/11/unitarian-universalist-sermon-on-birth_2914.html.