Unassisted home birth

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Greetings ones, I just took the recommendation from Yasha to look

over the past messages posted on the forum and read the unassisted

homebirth message form Laura Shanley and now I feel comfortable in

discussing this issue on this forum.

My husband I birthed our fifth child together unassisted two

years ago and are preparing to do so again for our new one coming in

May.

Panama seems to be twenty years behind as far as childbirth. I

am not sure how it is in private hospitals but I have heard bad

stories from birthing women of public (affordable) hospitals . Also

there is no option here as far as home birth goes, don't get me

wrong there are Pateras (midwives in spanish) but most are

indeginous or country folks who service there local community and

outside of that homebirth is for the poor. According to the clinic

down the street form us once a women has a baby at home she is

required to come to the hospital for a 48 hour observation seperate

from her new baby. I declinded and it took us eight months to get a

birth certificate for our daughter.

So we will avoid alot of stress this time and birth our baby

here in our home and do what all country folks do and bring

witnesses to register the baby for her birh certificate.

So here is my call for ideas I am completley comfortable with my

body and have always birhed my babies the way I have needed to with

or without an attendant but not every women feels the same way and I

see an desperate need to help give women the option of also birthing

their babies with or without attendant here in Panama.

This is where the idea of an doula comes in, introducing doulas

to the Panamanian public as an start to the dire need for an birth

revolution.

What does everyone think about this and how should this probelm

be tackled?

I know it has little, or at least not an direct

connection to Ayurveda but I am interested to hear what people here

on this forum think.

Thank you for any replies and or ideas,

In the Light Jahmanna