The information about this process is abundant, if you start searching. If you have a baby in the hospital you will be offered continuous fetal monitoring, IV access, forceps delivery, epidural anesthesia, pitocin, episiotomies, and Caesarian sections. Very few doctors have ever observed a natural birth, let alone a home birth (The Business of Being Born (2008)), because they are trained to always intervene. Don't forget about the poisonous food and toxic bright lights during the hospital experience! Once the baby has arrived, you will be offered a slew of injectables, circumcision on-demand, and a "birth certification," as if a performance award of some kind. I think it's unethical to contract the baby to the state before he or she has awareness of the situation. Are you ready to decline the commercial offerings? Knowledge is power; Ignorance is ...

Here are 3 educational stories of women who recently had babies:

My friend went to the hospital after changing course from her homebirth plan. The experience left her with a significant vaginal tear. The OB threatened an episiotomy if she did not deliver right away! Thus, she pushed the baby out rapidly against tension. At first she declined the routine injectables that are given immediately after birth, but the staff eventually pressured her into accepting the bio-altering substances.

The drugs administered (such as the epidural cocktail and others) cause issues with breastfeeding. My friend has been unable to breastfeed her baby and started supplementing with the formula provided, of course, by the hospital! This is a problem because the formula feeds are for growth only, not for holistic brain & body development.

Another friend chose a midwife and to deliver at the hospital. I was relived, knowing that she was seeing a midwife, thinking this would improve her outcome! After laboring normally at home, she headed to the hospital and arrived fully dilated (this means you can start pushing!). It was then found that the baby had turned breach. As today's hospital staff are no longer trained in the art of delivering breach babies, this meant an emergency C-section.

Emergencies do happen, although many instances are not a true emergency - this is a tactic for control (and really, if you think about it, a tactic for dominance over mothers). As you can imagine, breastfeeding after a C-section is likewise a huge challenge.

I chose to have my baby at home with my midwife, her assistant midwife, a doula, and husband. I read Ina Mau's Guide to Childbirth, listened to podcasts, and attended private non-hospital sponsored education. It was a long, sleepless labor. I had no cervical exams, and had the baby's heart tones monitored twice (via a probe on the belly only) before the baby arrived earthside. We sat in the pool while the midwives monitored the situation. We did not clamp the cord to the placenta until I delivered it, which took about an hour. This is an unheard-of practice in the mainstream, since "delayed cord clamping" typically lasts only a few minutes in the hospital. This journey and experience were mine, I was fully prepared for the responsibility of any outcome.

The Lost Placentas:The Lost Placentas:

There are real benefits from preserving and later consuming, burying or burning the placenta, which is a ritual in many traditional societies around the world. In the commercial hospitals, unfortunately, placentas get harvested immediately and shuttled off to the lab, sometimes despite the mother's wishes.

The Fiat Problem:The Fiat Problem:

Insurance premiums are very high for OBGYN practices, precisely because they harm mothers and their babies so often and so hard. However, the highly-paid lawyers skillfully redact or reinterpret the harm done by the hospital staff. The hospital-birth package does not end with the delivery. The follow-ups include feeding formula prescriptions and scheduled injections, as well as various elective procedures (such as tongue-tie clipping), which continue to harm the new family. I think it is counter-productive and dangerous to continue visiting practitioners that predominantly accept insurance reimbursements. Fiat-based practitioners are incentivized to continuously erode the freedoms and rights of their patients.

One way to slowly opt-out of the fiat way of healthcare is to join a crowdfunding community such as CrowdHealth. Admittedly, they still operate in the fiat world, however their model is closer to the real needs of a healthy community. Consider them your financial negotiators with the fiat-based healthcare services.

Risk Preference:Risk Preference:

We are told that hospital births are safer, and that out-of-hospital born babies are high-risk, which has been shown to be false, over and over. The corporate propaganda machine is always hard at work. In my opinion, the hospital is the last-resort option that I would consider, in a ridiculously unlikely scenario. If I were to "get transferred" to the hospital, I would have prepared some paperwork, such as notices of liability, or at least a pen and paper in order to craft my wishes on paper myself, without a lawyer and thru a notary. Additionally, have a camera ready to begin filming at any point. Men, you should also step-up and stand your ground. Please consider interviewing a midwife and/or a doula before the "due date." 🙏

Opt-Out and Never Look Back 👊Opt-Out and Never Look Back 👊

One would be wise to choose instead the holistic healers such as chiropractors, naturopaths, apothecaries, and integrative medicine specialists. Fiat maternal care appears to be structured to purposely sever people's attachment to the divine: natural birth, natural nutrition, and building in heartbeat with nature.