01/17/2026
Did you know that nearly 98% of women give birth in hospitals, regardless of their actual risk level?
And yet, roughly 90% of women are truly low-risk. Even more would be considered low-risk if pregnancy and birth were understood as normal, variable, and dynamic processes instead of something to be managed, timed, and labeled. Things like maternal age, baby size, or gestational length are often treated as “high risk” when, in reality, they frequently fall within normal physiological variation.
You’ve probably heard the phrase, “Thank God I was in the hospital.”
And while that can absolutely be true in a rare, true emergency, it’s important to ask why so many emergencies exist in the first place.
More often than not, complications arise because birth is being managed, not because birth itself is dangerous. Bright lights, time limits, routine interventions, constant monitoring, and a lack of trust in the birthing woman can disrupt the very physiology that keeps birth moving safely forward.
When we treat birth like a medical emergency and pregnant women like patients, we invite unnecessary interventions and strip women of their autonomy. But when we trust birth as a normal biological process and honor women as the experts of their own bodies and babies, most births unfold smoothly and safely.
Birth doesn’t usually “go wrong” on its own. It struggles when the natural flow is interrupted.
A normal, undisturbed, physiological birth is not reckless.
It is, in fact, the safest option for the majority of mothers and babies.
Let’s not forget: birth works.
If it didn’t, humanity wouldn’t exist.
The widespread fear surrounding birth is relatively new, emerging as birth was removed from the home and placed under institutional control.
Homebirth was once the norm.
Hospital birth was the exception.
And perhaps it’s time we begin questioning why that ever changed.
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