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A Childbirth Educator Speaks Out for Increased Advocacy for Normal Birth

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Upon noting that, over the years, normal birth has become less and less a cultural norm in the United States (where cesarean births now approach 30%), a childbirth educator speaks out to say it is time for normal-birth advocates to organize in order to increase efforts at social marketing of normal birth as a cultural norm.

Keywords: advocacy; normal birth; social change

Document Type: Research Article

Publication date: 01 December 2006

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