“To ignore the possible consequences”
Freebirthers do not ignore the possible consequences. We have EVERYONE around us reminding us daily of the potential dangers of our life choices.
During my pregnancy with our fifth child, I had friends from church calling me weekly to REMIND me of the fact that I had bled down to a 4.7 hematocrit after our 4th was born. As if my husband and I could forget!
This choice was not made casually or even naively.
I give birth at home, because I believe it is the best for the baby. That’s it.
I have had hundreds of stories like yours thrust into my face over the years. My heart aches for the babies and the mommas who give birth to them.
However, I will not be railroaded into a dangerous birthing situation just because of other peoples fears. I have spent countless hours overcoming my fears around birth. I dont’ take one bit of my life or the health of my family and myself for granted.
And I want to testify in the name of Jesus Christ that learning and praciticing Free Birth has Comforted my heart in regards to end times events.
Society itself is very fragile. But this life walk that Paul and I have been on has been so empowering and filled with joy. Do you know how amazing it was for me as a mother to hold my child in my arms for the first couple hours after his birth??? He was my fifth and it was the first time I had been able to bond with and enjoy my baby without anyone taking him away.
I think it is absolutely pathetic that instead of bonding in the immediate hours after birth, Momma has a demerol hangover and baby is being tortured in the NICU. It is a pathetic and sad state of affairs, and this ripples out into our society in bonding disorders, mothers being unable to relate to their children without drugs being involved, and women vowing they will never again have another child.
Most of the UC birthers I know want to have huge families because it was just so fun to give birth alone!
We have a story to share! And we don’t believe this lifestyle is for every mother. However, we are going to pursue our rights of self determination. If we don’t I sadly predict that the day will arrive in America when all sense of what is normal and natural in mothering will be lost, and all babies will be born by c-section and the druggy haze that currently infects our populace will overpower and disable the vast majority of our little ones.
Thanks for sharing your links, and God Bless your family.
Jenny
Of course the choice is yours.
Of course the choice is mine as well.
Of course I am thrilled by the fact that ALL of your children are alive and well.
I am thrilled that mine are as well.
None of them were tortured in the NICU however...and did not spend a minute out of my site.
I take it by your defensiveness that you found my post to be particularly irritating since it is the only one I have seen you respond to since yesterday.
Have a great life.
I hope that you know that rather than further your cause, you have replied with defensiveness, triteness and insults to me as a mother and a woman.
How nice to be so sure that yours is the only way to give birth safely and promote harmony and happiness.
It must be great to be you.