I think society's attitude to birthing as a whole needs to change before home birth will become the norm.

Once upon a time, women were worshipped as goddesses because of their ability to create life and birth was a celebration, a joyful event. Then society became male dominated and women were seen as sinners and evil temptresses and childbirth was supposed to be their punishment for being women and this great fear of childbirth developed, women had to go through it alone, unseen and removed from civilised society. Then came hospitalisation as just a more modern form of exercising patriarchal dominance.

Now women are seen as more equal, perhaps we will eventually lose the fear of childbirth and begin once again to see it as a normal, joyous occasion which (in the majority of cases) women are built for and totally capable of without the need for medical dominance.

Of course it's never easy or quick to change the attitude of society, but I hope it will happen some day.

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