Using a Doula for a natural birth

Most women, thanks to our media saturated culture, think of birth as a painful scary experience. In the countries where the C-section rate is high, many women have doubts about their ability to even physically give birth, let alone have a natural drug free intervention free experience. Natural birth is growing in popularity these days as more and more women are experiencing it and sharing their experiences. Yet many women who want to have such an experience are accused of “trying to be heroic”, as though the only benefit of birthing naturally was to be able to say you did it.