Posted on 02/24/2020 8:25:48 AM PST by C19fan
By February 2019, Judith had become unbearably anxious. The 28-year-old Pacific coast native’s due date had come and gone. Just two days shy of 45 weeks pregnant, her belly was stretched so far that it shined, her body was swollen, and nearly everything — from her toes to her hair — ached.
For women who haven’t gone into labor by 42 weeks, just about every medical and birth professional recommends induction — a jump-start to labor from medicines that ripen the cervix or contract the uterus. But Judith, an artist and freethinker who believes in “all that hippy jazz,” had a different kind of birth plan — one that dismissed medical recommendations and relied on nature and intuition, that rejected a sterile hospital for a warm pool in her own home and that avoided doctors and midwives. Instead, Judith wanted to be with only her husband and her closest friend, a plan known as freebirth, or unassisted birth, by the tiny subculture of women who practice it.
Judith couldn’t tell many people about that plan — her husband was supportive, but most of her other family and friends would understandably worry. Instead, Judith, who asked that her full name not be published, spent the last several months of her pregnancy immersed in online spaces where women celebrated her decision and offered support and tips. Private Facebook groups, Instagram accounts, podcasts and online courses had taught Judith everything she thought she needed to know about how her baby would come into the world.
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People who have success at 18th century birth reenactments, are fortunate. My niece tried it and after a pretty long time going through labor they relented and went to the hospital and got severely scolded by the doctors because that baby was in the birth canal way too long. Thank God everything is okay and that’s when I came up with the re-enactment phraseology.
Why would anybody want to re-enact a birthing procedure that’s a couple of hundred years old maybe more when they have the finest medical Medical Care on Earth to have a successful delivery of a healthy child? They are hazarding the birth process if they’re not so fortunate.
It was a 5-10% chance with every birth, though the greatest risk was the first.
Dumbed down society. Very possible avoidable tragedy. Sad error in judgement.
Oh, my word. What a loon. Unforced error — trying to be a dramatic heroine of childbirth, on her body's first try.
Things go full circle. This reminds me of a "male chauvinist" saying from before the femnazi movement of the 1960s to dismiss a woman's concerns or interests that were considered "unfeminine": "Don't bother your pretty little head with things like that!" Second-wave feminists were incensed about that saying. Now these radical hippy feminists are reviving it.
There's the problem, thinking motherhood is all about her.
For my second pregnancy, I went to a small, specialty maternity-only hospital that used midwives to monitor labor, with doctors available if needed during labor, and doctors to facilitate the delivery.
I had the most annoying midwife and threw her out of the room. You had your own OB-GYN but didn't get to choose your midwife; you took the one(s) assigned to you whose shift corresponded with your labor. Mine was aggressive, dictatorial, and looked masculine.
I re-lived that horrible experience while reading this article. Not hard to imagine that this is what socialized medicine would be like for all types of procedures.
Many of those crazed femhippies make soup out of it, in spite of being strident vegans the rest of the time.
$$$? Birth in a US hospital costs on average $15,800 for a C-section and $9,600 for a vaginal birth.
https://www.webmd.com/baby/features/cost-of-having-a-baby#1
The health care is too d—n high!
I guess they didn't know it had "dawned" eons ago and was discredited when man discovered Earth was not the center, etc.
A lot of them are on FR. Some are even on this thread.
Actually have learned some things from him...Wish he lived near me,,instead of N.Y.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nk1W0YjqJo
Why would you bring gender into this? Last time I checked idiocy was found in both sexes. Your post only makes sense if by “a lot of women” you mean “a few radfem whackjobs”.
I agree.
Actually, the history of childbirth is a lot more complicated than that.
Many women died in childbirth or soon after from the beginning of time. When they began to give birth in hospitals - staffed by men - the mortality rate was worse than if they stayed at home. The reason was what they called childbed fever. No one knew about bacterial infections in those days. In fact, the whole germ theory of infection was unknown.
A man by the name of Ignaz Semmelweis began a program of having the physicians scrub their hands before treating the next patient. Of course, the physicians hated him for suggesting they were causing the fever and got him fired!!
I wonder why an autopsy wasn’t performed on the baby. The article doesn’t say, just that one wasn’t done.
This person only had her husband and a "friend" neither which had any medical training.
That I do not complain about.
Watched one where he just told you to remove the bolts, what he did not tell you was that there were not four bolts in plain view but five bolts, and the fifth was hidden in a spot you needed a flashlight and a special tool to reach.
Much fun was had by all.
The placenta begins to deteriorate at just over 40 weeks and usually by week 42, it’s shot and that’s why they induce and don’t let women go past that date.
I had a friend whose placenta quit early and she went the full 40 weeks, not knowing what was happening, and lost the baby. They didn’t know until after the birth when they tested the placenta that it was no longer functioning.
It was heartbreaking.
This woman has no one to blame but herself for where she is.
Bodies don’t always work right and based on what I have learned over a long enough life, trusting your *instincts* is NEVER reliable.
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