Teachers: Judy Edmunds, CPM, Naoli Vinaver, Suzanne Arms, and Alice Coyle Content: Naoli recounts the sad story of a "normal birth" in a hospital, in which the doctors believe that although there was physical intervention, the fact that medical intervention wasn't used made it normal. Based on that story, this tape leads you to examine the concept of normal as it applies to birth. Normal behavior in laboring women, trusting birth, observing birth with empathy and love, the language of natural birth, massage, empathy for the student or midwife who is constrained in her practice--all are discussed with compassion, wit, insight and the assurance that midwives are the true guardians of normal birth.
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