A tale of two births

First child: Trusting birth

The mother is a homebirth midwife who decided to have an unassisted homebirth.

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Trust led to:

Second child: Fearing birth

Fear led to:

The take home message is pretty stark:

Trusting birth (ignoring post dates, protracted labor, homebirth, lack of a trained attendant) = Death.

Fearing birth (hospital birth, multiple trained attendants, postdates induction, IV, etc) = Joy.