Women choose homebirth because they are private and offer minimal intervention in the physiological birth process. This best serves the psychological and emotional health of the mother and baby when she is healthy.
The significance of breastfeeding reaches far beyond its biological function; in fact there is nothing ‘natural’ about breastfeeding itself. On the contrary, attitudes and practices appear to be socially determined, and breastfeeding has to be seen as an essential element in the cultural construction of sexually defined gender roles.