For the next few Friday's I will be featuring Celebrities that have helped bring back Natural Parenting in one form or another. It all starts at birth. See who has had a Natural Childbirth and their thoughts on it.
Cesarean rates in the United States have reached an all time high of 35% and this number is climbing. This may be why there was a 20% increase in the number of home-birth in the United States over the last five years, this number is climbing as well. Home-births may still only count for 1-2% of the births in the United States, but this increase shows that women are becoming more educated about their birthing choices. Realizing that it is possible to have an intervention free birth at home, or in water, or even at a birthing center.
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| Ricki Lake "BBB" |
Ricki Lake has definitely become one of the Hollywood faces
advocating natural birth. Her documentary, "
The Business of Being Born"
(BBB) gives a look inside hospital births, how they are setup to go a
certain way and it can be very difficult to brake that cycle. She also
shared her home water-birth of her second son. The four part series “More Business of Being
Born” also includes “Celebrity Mother’s Talk
Straight Birth”. Against popular opinion, not all of Hollywood wants a scheduled designer birth followed by a tummy tuck.
Take a look at who in Hollywood have
had a natural birth, home-birth, water-birth, and even some unassisted births. See
what they have say about there amazing experience. I was sure to
included some of the proud celebrity dads who have supported the
wives!
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| Jessica Alba |
Actress Jessica Alba and husband Cash had a Hypno-Birth. She told
Us Weekly about the delivery of her daughter Honor saying, "I didn't scream. It was really Zen. The labor was more like a meditation. I did yoga breathing."
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| Pamela Anderson |
Actress Pamela Anderson with then husband
Musician Tom Lee Jones, said on Larry King “I gave birth at home both times natural with a midwife, in water with nothing. Not even Tylenol."
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| Erykah Badu |
Singer Erykah Badu, had all three of her children at home. She says. “Maybe to some it’s scary, but preparation is the whole key. When a mother has found out she’s going to have a baby, her whole life — her diet, her mood, her energy — should kind of prepare her. After she prepares herself, fear is never a part of it. I expected success and health, so I made sure I surrounded myself with it. By the time I had my third baby, childbirth seemed a very natural part of life to me.” Erykah, now works as a Doula and is training to be a Midwife, she says her clients refer to her as “Erykah Ba-Doula”.
