Women are increasingly dissatisfied with hospital birth. This article details a number of ways for hospital staff to help women achieve the birth they want, and invites them to consider the outcome of birth as more than just another day at work.

An opinion piece which touches on several freebirth issues from knowledge systems and politics to primal needs and physiological birth. This insight into freebirth, by a freebirther, encourages women to consider what they yearn for in their birth experiences by reinforcing women's desires as actual birthing needs.

**This is a sneak preview from Freebirth Australia, a freebirth website coming soon in 2012!

So many women think that they'll just go to hospital, have a baby, and all will be well. They think they will be respected, supported, and that the experience will be a happy one. Unfortunately that's not what's happening to many women. I'm one of the ones who didn't have that experience.

A letter addressed to men, from a man, about why he prefers homebirth. Having witnessed both home and hospital birth this dad can do the run down on how they're different and why homebirth is far superior to anything a hospital might have to offer. This is a great letter to show your hubby if you're trying to show him why you want a homebirth.

Birth trauma means different things to different people, which makes it difficult to define. This is a short introductory article explaining what birth trauma is.

There's a thousand and one reality style television shows about birth these days and they all have one common denominator. Highly managed, interventionist births. Women lying on their backs covered in drapes with their legs up in stirrups and a heap of strangers peering at their vulvas telling them to PUUUUUSH. It's no wonder we're afraid of giving birth!

An article comparing grocery shopping and birth. It might seem like a strange idea but this revamped blog post explains why "at least you got a healthy baby" is potentially a hurtful and dismissive statement. This is the perfect piece for people who are supporting a woman who is experiencing birth trauma or for women who are trying to express their own birth trauma.