Welcome! I hope you will participate in my study about home birth. I am a PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of Iowa, investigating current home birth cultures, with a strong focus on unassisted birth. I am particularly interested in learning more about: 

• The journey to home birth: what leads people to make this choice? 
• Unassisted home birth (also called freebirth, unabirth, or UC)
• The role of intuition and instinct in birth
• New models or paradigms of childbirth created by home birthers
• The sexuality and sensuality of birth (and conversely, sexual violence during birth)
• Perceptions about home birth among the larger US population and medical profession
• Favorite authors, videos, and websites of home birthers and attendants