First child: Trusting birth
The mother is a homebirth midwife who decided to have an unassisted homebirth.
Alternate video link here.
Trust led to:
Second child: Fearing birth
Fear led to:
The take home message is pretty stark:
Trusting birth (ignoring post dates, protracted labor, homebirth, lack of a trained attendant) = Death.
Fearing birth (hospital birth, multiple trained attendants, postdates induction, IV, etc) = Joy.
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Dr. Amy Tuteur is an obstetrician gynecologist. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College in 1979 and her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine in 1984. Dr. Tuteur is a former clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. She left the practice of medicine to raise her four children. Her book, Push Back: Guilt in the Age of Natural Parenting (HarperCollins) was published in 2016. She can be reached at DrAmy5 at aol dot com... More
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