"Unassisted Childbirth" means that doctors or midwives do not attend the birth process, unless they
happen to be a relative or friend that is not attending in their official capacity or attempting to influence the birth process.
Anyone that is present during the
birth process does not hinder, impede, or interfere with the birth process in any way unless specifically requested to do
so by the birthing mother. Even
then, there are limits to consider when attempting to define unassisted childbirth, since the term iteslf implies that unassisted
childbirths are unassisted by definition.
Potentially dangerous practices which
include such things as AROM, herbal inductions for no good reason, measuring cervical dilation for the purposes of predicting
when labor will start or how quickly the baby will arrive, etc, do not fall into this definition for the purpose of this
website and we do not support or promote such practices in general.
