Author: Alyssa

I’m very happy to share this birth story from my friends Tom and Joyce! Nathan is their firstborn, and they were planning to have him at Toronto’s birth centre. Things unfolded faster than expected, however, and they ended up having him at home. A week after Nathan was born, Tom shared this on their pregnancy blog,…

I started reading Cynthia Gabriel’s Natural Hospital Birth and didn’t even make it through the introduction before I was highlighting whole paragraphs. Gabriel is a doula and anthropologist, and I am looking forward to her perspective. I certainly recognize the challenges that women face who are delivering in a hospital and would prefer a natural birth. Many hospitals…