Whilst i am a nature man, i regard home birth as dangerous.
Indeed, once upon a time, many women (and children) died in child birth.
I think hospitals and our medical technology is a blessing.
I know a lady who recently planned to give birth at a mountain retreat, with mid-wife.
Fortunately for her, complications set in before she left to her mountain retreat and she was rushed to hospital. The word was without medical assist, she could have lost her life.
Similarly, a friend recently gave birth with the umbilical cord wrapped around the neck of the child a few times and the baby the wrong way up.
Below are some ancient accounts of child birth:
Stressful, painful, is the woman's state: so says the tamer of tamable people. Being a co-wife is painful. Some, on giving birth once, slit their throats. Others, of delicate constitution, take poison. In the midst of a breech-birth both [mother & child] suffer destruction.
