Birth Unhindered: Intimate Stories of Women Experiencing the Power and Transformation of Birth

No more powerful transformation is available to a woman than that of the unhinderd birth of her child. As a woman's body opens to the life of her baby, so too is she opened to the rawness and beauty of woman-hood. At the culmination of an unhindered birth, a woman is left with an increased sense of strength and confidence as a woman and a mother.

This often fearful and dreaded event of childbirth is largely misunderstood and shrouded in mystery. The harmful routines and common procedures per...