Monday the 19th 04/19/2010
 
Its hard being a birth radical and enthusiast.  seeing how so many women are treated and manipulated by the mainstream medical field with something so natural makes me sick.

This weekend i was on some forums and a 19 year old woman was wanting to find support and information about having an unassisted child birth.  She felt it was her intuition telling her that she should avoid the hospital and felt that nature intended that for her.

she got about 2% support and 98% negativity and ill treatment.  There were women saying that she was "only 19 and ignorant" and "i hope you put your baby up for adoption because you obviously are too stupid to care for a child" and it just goes on from there. 
I reached out to her, of course as i am planning my own unassisted birth in June, and explained where she could get good information and also gave her my website for reference.

I get so angry because these women don't realize that most women who choose to have an unassisted birth usually have their child and their health in the highest regards and only want whats best for their baby. 

 Although there is a place for OB/Gyns in the industry of pregnancy, not every pregnancy should be treated as a protocol for disaster. the rates are plateauing for mortality and morbidity, and i believe they could drop if some of the interventions and let nature do its job.
this country needs to make midwifery a main stream thing, and women need to start taking charge and listening to their intuition!!!
 


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Annie link
04/19/2010 09:14

I'm glad you were there to offer her support and information! As a young mom, I get so angry when people assume that we are all idiots and shouldn't be allowed to care for our children. While unassisted birth is not for me, women who choose that option should be able to find all of the information they need so that they get the result they are looking for. I am a firm believer in mother's intuition. I knew my 1st would be born vaginally but with a lot of work, and he was. I also knew within 3 hours of labor with my 2nd that he would need a c-section. Thankfully I had a doctor that fully supported my decisions and understood where I was coming from. Quality care, regardless of whether it is a doctor, midwife, doula, etc, is imperative for healthy pregnancies. Judging other mothers and their choices only hurts the cause.

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Roo
04/19/2010 10:19

Instead of judging and degrading, why isn't this community of childbirth chatting people come together to educate?! Isn't that traditionally what women of communities do/did? We are so dependent on the medical industry to tell us how to be healthy, we forget that it is programmed in our beings! I knew I was having the twins many weeks before a doctor confirmed: that intuition made me believe in myself & my innate abilities as a mother.

Good post.

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