I;ve never been to the Farm but UI have relatives, neighbors, and friends who lived there, including those early pioneering days. Ina May’s writings on childbirth have been very influential on me, though hers is not the only approach to home birthing and I;ve had some driticisms of the ways she’s promoted as the chief innovator of a homebirth movement that was really quite widesprread by the early 1970s.

partly because of the exosure to the Farm birthing philosophy, I did not find birthing really painful, though it was hard work that took plenty of attention. if you have ever packpacked, or aprticipated in athlietics, or done some kind of all-day physical labor, you will recognize the strains and the joy.

natural childboirth isn;’t for everyone and I have been accused of being part of a cult for my faith in it. let;s just say there are plenty of things in life that scare me, but home childborth isn;t one of them. yes, things can sometimes come complicated, but life can become complicated. people sometimes choke on their food, but this isn’t a reason to have medical supervision of everyone eating.

I’m curious as to what the Farm Midwifery Center charges these days. as you porbably know from reading Spiritual Midwifery, all services o the farm were without charge the first thwelve eyars of tehir existence. after a while, the community could no longer afford this, and tehy restructured so that individual families and businesses had to porvide for themselves. my guess is that they are quite reasonable compared with the costs of a homebirth midwife in the large cities, but I really don;t know, and they don;t hint at it on their website.

I hope your experience with the Farm Midwifery program is as wonderful as it sounds it could be.

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Thanks for the article, I’ll check it out!

I’d have to think there’s something to it tho’ because of the holistic angle.

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