<p>Moira walks Adrian through the strange, diagonalist history of the idea of "natural birth" -- from 1930s eugenicists to hippie communes, from radical feminist spaces to MAHA and the "<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/nov/22/free-birth-society-linked-to-babies-deaths-investigation">wild birth</a>"-movement. This episode comes with a bunch of trigger warnings -- please make sure you're in the right headspace before diving in!</p><p>Some of the texts we refer to in the episode:</p><p>Grantly Dick-Read, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://archive.org/details/naturalchildbirt0000gran"><em>Natural Childbirth</em></a><em> </em>(1933)</p><p>Adrienne Rich, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://archive.org/details/ofwomanbornmothe0000adri"><em>Of Woman Born</em></a> (1977)</p><p>Barbara Ehrenreich, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://archive.org/details/witchesmidwivesn0000ehre"><em>Witches, Midwives and Nurses</em></a><em> </em>(1972)</p><p>Ina May Gaskin, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://archive.org/details/spiritualmidwife0000unse"><em>Spiritual Midwifery</em></a> (1975)</p>