Michelle Aristizabal on Natural Birth and Choosing Your Birthing Experience

The resistance she runs into as a doctor trying to support natural birth

Why doctors and patients often have trouble having a low intervention birth in some settings

The reason the c-section rate has risen so drastically in the last few decades

Some factors to consider when approaching birth

The real data about if low intervention birth is more dangerous

Ways women can advocate for themselves in labor

Interventions you actually have a choice about in labor and can refuse

The factors women can do to increase their chances of a natural birth

Stats on the real safety of home birth vs hospital birth and why home birth isn’t as safe in the US as it can be in other places