free birth
Home labor, unattended
Free birth is the practice of giving birth without medical professionals present—no doctors, midwives, or nurses, just the mother (and sometimes a partner or family).
Advocates view it as reclaiming birth as a natural process rather than a medical event.
Critics consider it dangerously risky.
Also called unassisted birth or unassisted childbirth.
- unassistedWithout outside help
- hands offForbidding contact or meddling
- homebirthChildbirth at residence
- midwifeChildbirth assistance professional
- naturalNot artificially produced
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free birthhospital birth
Childbirth in medical setting
cesarean section · C-section · induced labor · forceps delivery · vacuum extraction
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