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Unassisted Childbirth | Laura Shanley

Support the Whose Body Is It podcast by becoming a paid subscriber | https://whosebodyisit.substack.com/ In this episode Laura Shanley shares the deeply personal journey that led her to write Unassisted Childbirth originally titled The Joy of Childbirth a book published in 1994 that has since found its way into over 1,000 libraries worldwide. Long before “free birth” was a movement or an identity, Laura was navigating the path of unassisted childbirth largely alone—choosing unassisted birth for her five children in the 1970s and 80s without ever knowingly having met another woman who had done the same. Influenced by Grantly Dick-Read’s Childbirth Without Fear -the book her future husband was reading the very night they met - Laura’s philosophy was shaped by her intuition, pursuit of spirituality and a higher consciousness, and a refusal to accept fear-based narratives around birth, as she carried medical trauma and stories of obstetric violence passed down from her mother. Laura discusses how her work gained attention: including the pressure to turn her book into a “how-to manual,” and to write about who should and shouldn’t birth unassisted…lines she felt were never her place to draw. Many of the unassisted births she documents in her book and website weren’t even intentional, but the natural result of fast, pleasurable labors. While Laura found allies like HypnoBirthing founder Marie Mongan, she also faced fierce criticism from midwives and the medical community, especially after experiencing a stillbirth, an event her detractors seized on as proof that unassisted birth leads to tragedy. The episode closes with Laura’s reflections on free birth subculture, infant loss, and what is lost when complex human experiences are flattened into dogma. Unassisted Childbirth Website | https://unassistedchildbirth.com/ ✦✦✦ Follow Whose Body Is It on Instagram |   / whosebodyisit   Shop Activist Stickers | https://www.whosebodyisit.com/shop Whose Body Is It | https://www.whosebodyisit.com/ ---- Time by ASHUTOSH |   / grandakt   | Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 | Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...