Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- We've come a long way
- or have we?
- The dangers of medical intervention
- The psychological effects of a traumatic birth on a family
- Why physicians insist on intervening
- Personal beliefs and expectations
- Dreams, impulses, intuition, and emotions : our psychological lifeline to the inner self
- Stories of unassisted births
- The case for autonomous birth
- My story
- Conclusion
- Unassisted childbirth resources
- Bibliography
- Index.