I did a lot of my learning organically with websearch, being obsessed because I'm pregnant and the clock is ticking.
If you don't want to involve a midwife, research all complications. Google/duckduckgo every question you have.
You and your wife would benefit from knowing the best positions for birthing, and how the baby moves through the hips, and ensuring it is positioned well in the womb before labor. Spinningbabies.com has a lot of groundbreaking information for easing birth. Being of a healthy weight definitely helps, as does stretching out the hips using yoga stretches and pregnancy specific stretches.
turn on english subtitles - this german woman has freebirthed about 7 kids and is about to have twins - youtube.com/user/owakihi
youtube has fucktons of home birth and freebirth videos for getting familiar with what it's like
search anything here to get piles of science dumped on your head - uptodate.com/
Of the books I've gotten, the best is Active Birth by Janet Balaskas.
Also look into hypnobirthing. Online courses are not very expensive, and books are even less.
Jose Jackson
It may be simpler than I'm imagining. I'd say if I'm posting too much noise for you, the #1 thing for a woman to do in labor is feel free to listen to her body, and feel safe. She needs quiet to listen to her instincts, and security to focus without fear.
Angel Sanders
JEWS
There.
Kevin Roberts
(it can be very simple, skip the first 35 minutes)
Luke Richardson
threadly reminder you can't solve declining birth rates while women still have voting rights and while age of consent laws exist.
Easton Howard
They may be starting older, but women have access to medical care, better nutrition and, as a result, a longer lifespan. My mother gave birth to her first at 30, second at 33, third at 38 and me at 43. All of us are healthy. Women can have large, healthy families even if they start late.
This is a blackpilled argument. The risk of having autism is about 1.5 percent for children born to parents in their 20s, and 1.58 percent for children born to parents in their 40s.
Hire a midwife. Births can endanger the life of a mother and child. 98% are probably fine, but a midwife can recognize the 2% that need hospital care.
Josiah Flores
There is no K-selected anything without natural selection.
Isaac Brown
You think you need to sleep with children in order to have multiple children? Sounds like you have other issues
Thomas Hernandez
The concept of social darwinism needs to die before you can open your eyes to what is really happening. Material prosperity offers no benefit in reproductive fitness, it's just a bunch of shiny toys.
Ayden Torres
It's nice to hear. I'm starting at 34 here and aiming for six (husband agrees to at least 4). Grasping white genocide has given me huge direction in life, thank you pol
True – though so can I, a thorough layperson. And sometimes midwives panic and get it wrong. So yes a midwife is safest, but still nothing beats knowing your own stuff. I can't get a midwife, all the ones in my area of Ontario are booked up, so I'm going to have to freebirth because as dangerous as it may be, it's safer than hospital.
