One way of evaluating where to have your baby is to look at the likelihood of intervention for each place of birth. The fewer interventions there are the less risk there is to mother and baby. With fewer interventions there will be fewer problems as a result of intervention, fewer c-sections, and, we believe, a safer birth for the normal mother and baby. . . .
With less intervention, mother, baby, and father are more likely to have a strong attachment to each other, and this fragile new family will have the mutual loving start they need. The pleasure principle, the full expression of a woman’s sensuality in birth, operates best with the least intervention. And finally, with less intervention, a woman feels more that she has “given birth” rather than that she has been
“delivered.” Her enhanced self-esteem from this achievement helps the woman in her new role as a mother.
