title: A childbirth educator speaks out for increased advocacy for normal birth.
abstract: Upon noting that, over the years, normal birth has become less and less a cultural norm in the United States (where cesarean births now approach 30%), a childbirth educator speaks out to say it is time for normal-birth advocates to organize in order to increase efforts at social marketing of normal birth as a cultural norm.
authors.affiliation: ANNE BOYD lives in Birmingham, Alabama, and has been a childbirth educator for 14 years and a La Leche League leader since 1993. In addition to her work as a managing partner of a consulting firm that specializes in fund development, strategic planning, and nonprofit management, she teaches a childbirth educator training course for the nursing extension school at a community college in Birmingham.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Boyd