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Babies are active participants in birth, not passive recipients.

Babies are active participants in birth, not passive recipients.

 29th May 2020

A beautiful video showing how active a baby is in the womb. The 'stepping reflex' is one way that a baby is an active participant in birth on our easibirthing youtube channel at https://youtu.be/1TtxR...

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Why is it so hard to allow women the kind of labour they want? By Catherine Bennett

 24th Nov 2019

Decades on from the resurgence of a woman's right to have a natural birth, and the reality is still that women are often not given the full information to make a truly informed choice. The Shrewsbury...

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Treating Tokophobia: The women who are scared of giving birth

 15th May 2019

Reproduced from an article written for ELLE magazine  BY NATASHA BIRD 18/04/2019 This feature is part of ELLE's 'Modern Motherhood Series' - exploring the shifting role of 'moth...

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