Therefore, neither the safety nor the satisfaction that families experience during this process is more important than the other, and neither can be diminished or excluded from any birth without consequence. Natural Childbirth is, in and of itself, a safe, normal, healthy function of the female anatomy. Pregnant women and their babies carry all essential provisions necessary for Natural Childbirth within themselves. All births are irreplaceable and immeasurably important life events for all participants. All facets of childbearing are also fundamental parts of human life, and the events which transpire in conjunction with childbearing have a profound effect on the developing well-being of all members of the family as well as society as a whole.
Babies are aware and feeling human beings from well before the time of birth.
A mother and baby are necessarily and desirably interdependent during pregnancy, birth, and early childhood. Physically receiving one s own infant into one s own hands is an irreplaceable and immeasurably important life event for babies and their families. Childbearing is a personal process for all members of a family, involving unique, intimate choices, values, and beliefs. Childbearing is an integral facet of a woman s sexuality and is therefore intimate, and private in nature in a way that is unique to each individual. The vast majority of complications that occur simultaneously with Natural Childbirth are iatrogenic, that is, created externally, and most often by the circumstances of assisted birthing.