You are not brave!

Have you ever heard someone say, 'Wow, how brave!' when you mentioned wanting to birth naturally?

You're not brave!

You're not brave for wanting a natural birth.

You're not brave for wanting a birth without medical pain relief.

You're not brave for wanting to give birth at home.

Childbirth is a physiological event, natural to the human body, that should not be feared.

At some point in history, women were taught to fear childbirth. They were stripped of their instincts and misled into trusting choices that benefited doctors more than their own bodies.

What should really be feared are unnecessary interventions, which can disrupt the delicate, complex, and perfect mechanism of human physiology. Because these interventions are the ones that have a higher chance of turning labor into complications for both the mother and the baby, including the all-too-common scheduled C-section, which ironically is often performed with the false illusion of safety.