Sentence examples for birth movement from inspiring English sources

She knew, and was not afraid to say, that the natural birth movement is problematic, too.

The progenitor of the modern natural birth movement was a British obstetrician named Grantly Dick-Read.

About 30 years ago, when the women's movement was at its zenith, what you might call the birth movement experienced a quickening.

He says the first published references to the practice of maternal placentophagy are tied to the home birth and natural birth movement in the US during the 60s.

The natural birth movement, spearheaded by the French obstetrician Fernand Lamaze and the British doctor Grantly Dick-Read – the first president of the National Childbirth Trust – represented an understandable reaction.

Finally, there is the elective caesarean which, as founder of the Positive Birth Movement, Milli Hill, says, "is another right that a woman has, and it absolutely should be upheld".

This suggests a connection to the home-birth movement, with its goal of getting childbirth out of the hospital.

They had traveled to this corner of southern Tennessee to learn from the founding mother of the natural-birth movement.

"A powerbase in the US is producing phony research to validate its own role," said author Sheila Kitzinger, a pioneering figure in the home-birth movement.

And in a potential boon to the home-birth movement, legislators passed a bill late Wednesday allowing midwives to practice independently of obstetricians.

On the one hand, the various personhood amendments, making a fertilized egg equal to a woman, mostly failed; on the other, representatives of the hard-line, forced-birth movement seemed to carry many a day and election.