The article intends to present the question of the humanization of birth in its cultural and anthropological foundations, in order to improve a non-medical point of view about its understanding. The analysis has been developed with the theoretical tools offered by the thoughts of two known religious philosophers and researchers: Rudolf Otto and Mircea Eliade, using the practice and philosophy of alchemy, with its peculiar vision about spirit and matter, to give the basis to analyze the experience of a woman who inverts the scheduled script of a Caesarian (C-Section) birth in her 40th week of gestation in order to appreciate delivering naturally. She delivers her baby naturally, after all. The results of this reflection show the deep ramifications that the humanization of birth imply for women, in her psychology as well in her being as citizen, mother, and woman. The conclusion points out news directions for the humanization of birth, as well as what it means for the humanization of its own activists, as a wide and transforming movement of the cultural as well of the obstetrical paradigm.
Parturition; Women's health; Individuation; Humanizing delivery