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I am Canadian. New York magazine, therefore, hits my news stands
three weeks late and I have only just read “Extreme Birth,” Andrew
Goldman’s article about NYC home-birth midwife Cara Muhlhahn and home
births in general. I have been wanting a good lead-in to a home birth
discussion for a long time, so even though this article prompted much
online buzz about home births from such big wigs as Jezebel and salon.com’s broadsheet weeks ago, I’ll throw my two bits in anyway.
A good friend, and one of the most unabashed, frank and honest
people I know, is five months pregnant and on the wait-list for a
midwife in her area. I was pretty surprised because both my kids were
“delivered by” a midwife and I know that wanting to at least try for an
unmedicated birth is really kinda the point. When I told her this, she
replied that she has always been one to try the latest, trendy thing
and thought she might as well see if she could go it au naturel. Is
that really all this home birth talk is, then, a passing trend? Or does
it represent a real backlash against the over-medicalization of
childbirth and a general shift toward a less invasive approach to
labour and delivery? Or could it be both? Read more »