As you say, who gives a damn
about natural birth when the cost is your baby's life?
It seemed so very important at the time... and now, who gives a damn
about natural birth when the cost is your baby's life?
Not exact matches
I definitely worry
when I think
about how popular culture is making all my fellow women of the world view
natural, normal
birth as only for «masochists, women who don't shave their armpits and have children named Moon Flower»
I mean it is certainly an option and thank goodness for those interventions
when we need them, but It seems to me that if we stop talking
about natural birth as «alternative
birth» it might have a chance at becoming a little more main stream.
They forgot
about the oxytocin... My vaginal
birth not having messed things up (and the pitocin having even increased my
natural levels... shh don't tell anyone), I was able to chill out and send the occasional text message without the usual fight or flight response caused by texting while I get on the freeway (wait a minute, I thought fight or flight was the response caused in all the other drivers
when they see you texting).
When interviewing possible providers, start by asking questions
about previous clients,
natural birth experience, and primary cesarean rates.
When a woman chooses not to have a drug - free
birth experience, women who believe in the superiority of
natural birth tend to think of her as less - than: she took the easy way out; she just doesn't get it; she probably doesn't really care
about her health, or her baby's health, as much as I care
about mine.
Why are we so excited
about keeping things
natural when it comes to
birth, while we remain dedicated to rejecting nature
when it comes to, say, climate control or the ability to buy to buy out of season at the grocery store all winter long?
My boyfriend and I have always talked
about a
natural birth and your story is inspirational, I don't plan on having a baby anytime in the near future, but I might have to ask you a few questions
when it comes time;]!
What makes me sick are the people who encouraged this woman to try something for which she was not a good candidate, and who lied to her
about the safety of same, and who pushed her into feeling that how she gave
birth was so important, and who are now neglecting her
when she needs them and trying to sweep her and her baby under the rug and pretend her loss didn't occur because it doesn't fit in with their «
natural birth is the only way» mindset.
Its easy to say you are informed and you «know» the risks, and nasty things like «some babies aren't just meant to live»... but man,
when you are living that statistic, or that emergency, you know that all that garbage
about «how»
natural out of hospital
birth is so much better... is just that, garbage.
When I learned more
about how
natural birth process works and how women's body goes along with it with the help of its hormones, all I could think «it makes so much sense, why didn't I know
about this?
Summer — I think I know exactly how you feel, because it's how I feel
when people make inaccurate assumptions and generalizations
about women and babies who didn't have a
natural birth (I had an emergency c - section at 28 weeks, and my baby is the happiest one I've ever met).
The picture a lot of expecting moms have
when they think
about natural birth is a mother having a baby in a bathtub at home.
The first time I thought to myself that I wanted to photograph a
birth was
when I watched a YouTube video
about a
natural home water
birth.
This reminds me of a few weeks ago
when that blogger went off on a tangent
about natural birth and breastfeeding.
When I learned more
about how
natural birth process works and how women's body goes along with it with the help of its hormones, all I could think «it makes so much sense, why didn't I know
about this?
Sometimes
when people talk
about «
natural»
birth control, they mean a
birth control method that doesn't have hormones.