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The Economics of Birth!. The way in which you are born has an impact!. A lifelong impact. How was your own birth?. What did your mother tell you about it?. How do you want your own child to remember it?. It pays to think of ways to give birth before giving birth.
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The way in which you are born has an impact! A lifelong impact
How was your own birth? What did your mother tell you about it?
Every woman can give birth Women have been doing so for centuries.
Whence the doubt…? and unnecessary medicalisation…
The Economics of Birth … also applies to doctors.
In the Netherlands, the number of hospital births has risen from 60% to 80% during the last decade. (PRN 2008)
The need for epidurals has doubled to 8,1% over the last decade in the Netherlands. (PRN 2008)
Yet one fourth of all Dutch women is NOT happy with her birthing experience…TNO 2009
The Economics of Birth! IWRC International Week forRespectingChildbirth 21-27 May 2012
It is our opinion that homebirth should remain an option. ENCA Nederland European Network of Childbirth Associations
Thanks to:Jan, Veronika, Eliska, Martina, Dominik, Lucie, Miloslav, Anezka, Vojta, Barbora, Zuzana,for their beautiful drawings!