The Trust Birth Initiative

TRUST BIRTH is about women empowering themselves by forming discussion groups in their communities, about pregnancy and childbirth. No strings attached. No fees.

TRUST BIRTH is an international effort, and each month there is an official topic and assignment to help us maintain a GLOBAL FOCUS towards rediscovering the beauty of trusting birth.

TRUST BIRTH is
Women talking to women about birth.
Not another expert, not another class, but iscussion/support groups meeting one night a month.
No middle of the road rhetoric.
All about BIRTH TRUTH.
Every woman deserves the right to hear the truth about birth.
We are not concerned with being politically correct.
We don’t lie to women about what may or may not happen if they follow a formula or a plan.
We won’t give them the idea that they can have the birth they want
if they go to the hospital with their doula and a birth plan in hand.
We tell the truth: that interference with birth starts the minute she leaves her home, and that the minute she is in the hospital she
is no longer in charge.
Birth should not be a time in a woman’s life when she has to FIGHT
for anything. Birth should not be a battlefield.
We tell the truth — women know how to give birth. They may not
KNOW that they do, but they do.
We tell the truth — mothers are not the enemy of their babies and babies are mot going to destroy their mothers in birth. Mothers and babies are symbiotic units, and if left alone would know what to do.
Birth is not crisis management; it is not a rescue mission to relieve the mother of the child and the child of the mother. It is not an emergency.
Birth is safe. Interference with birth is risky.
Women and their babies are being abused in the name of "safety"
There are too many surgical births, too many epidurals, too many episiotomies, too many inductions, too much monitoring and managing; Women are being scared and bullied and manipulated.
Women are being robbed experience of giving birth; babies are being robbed of a peaceful environment in which to be born.
In most cases, having a baby would be as natural as making a baby, if we let it alone.
Natural, and normal is not the same as easy and painless and we acknowledge that there is pain for almost every woman - but we know that women live through the pain.
We also acknowledge that birth is not always without risk, but we believe that life is not without risk. There are a lot of things more risky than birth.
Birth is not the act of rescuing a baby or a mother from death, yet that is the prevalent attitude about birth.
Parents are qualified to become informed about their choices and can make the decision to make all the decisions.
We encourage women to stop giving their authority away and recognize that they are their own authority--
Midwives, doulas, doctors, childbirth educators are paid consultants. Too many women have been told too many lies. Too many women have lost something they don’t even know they had.
We want to tell the truth and tell the truth and tell the truth until women find it in themselves again.