Stuart Fischbein (Dr Stu) runs a website and podcast called Birthing Instincts. More specifically, he is an OBGYN (Obstetrician-Gynaecologist) with over 40 years of experience who specialises in breech and twin births and supports VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Caesarean).

Home births are safer than hospital births

Dr Stuart Fischbein has spent decades delivering babies in both hospitals and homes. He has concluded that home births are superior to hospital births, and that the hospital-based childbirth model is a multi-billion-dollar industry based on fear and uninformed consent. It wasn’t always like this.

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In other words, he has delivered a lot of babies in both hospitals and homes, promoting the latter due to it being safer and healthier.

Natural birth at home allows a woman to trust her body fully—hospitals often interrupt what nature does best.

— Ina May Gaskin, midwife

Personal journey

Had my wife not been pregnant at the time, I wouldn’t have considered this subject.

Dr Stu’s Podcast — Birthing Instincts with Dr. Stu

<p>Birthing Instincts and Dr. Stuart Fischbein aim to teach, speak and write about the normalcy of birth choices. A long time outspoken advocate of a woman’s’ right to informed consent and refusal and the exercise of her free will, Dr. Fischbein believes in the ethics of respecting a woman’s autonomy in decision making and reasonable, evidence supported options of selected VBAC, breech and twin vaginal birth.</p>

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On a road trip, she found Dr Stu’s podcast and we listened to a few episodes. We kept nodding at what he said and I realised I needed to get him on my podcast.

Which is exactly what I did.

Talking points

• Men discussing pregnancy and birth
• Decline in academic standards
• Why home births are superior
• The etsablishment’s opposition to home births
• Too many medical interventions and C-sections
• Long-term effects of medical interventions

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Very importantly, Dr Stu adds that medicine absolutely has its place but that we should challenge the over-medicalisation of childbirth.