Posted on 06/06/2007 11:39:42 AM PDT by gobucks
Anyone who wants to go drug- and doctor-free, God bless them, but I ain't into that kind of machisma. I've had two, and there's a third on the way, and I know myself well enough to know that I want doctors, nurses and pain relief.
Yea, once the doctors decided to wash their hands before the delivery.
“But, as soon as you go into labor, they want to pump you full of drugs. Drugs that typically *extend* labor.”
Uh... You just contradicted yourself. So which is it? The so-called birthing industry wants to shorten labor or extend it down?
I suppose. If that’s what’s important to you.
I am the biggest pain coward on the planet. Just ask my family. Yet, I gave birth (but in a hospital) with no meds at all. The doctor allowed me to sit up Indian style and something about that position made the birth easy.
But....who would we sue when the child “isn’t right”?
They’ve tended to have ASSISTANTS for all those millenia.
“gee, what did women ever do for the last 6000 years of recorded history?”
Alot of dead mothers and dead babies.
Modern medicine has made childbirth much safer for mothers and babies.
Do you have a link?
“That said, doctors forced my mother to have ceasarian sections, perforated her uterus, and missed the severity of her placenta previa, so it’s not like I think they’re gods but when I give birth I want access to emergency surgeries or life-saving measures.”
A placenta previa blocks the cervix, so there is no way out for the baby except by c-section and that means incising the uterus. What was the alternative? Losing the baby and bleeding out?
They and their babies died in prodigious numbers during child birth and due to complications resulting from it. To know how bad it was, you ought to read a biography of Phillip II of Spain, the Armada king. Although a compulsive adulterer, he was generally decent toward his wives, not a murdering sociopath, like Henry VIII, and he genuinely loved several of them. He also had some of the best sixteenth century medical care available. In spite, or, possibly, because of that care he lost almost all of his wives either in child birth or due to related complications. There's a good reason for modern medicine and modern maternity hospitals. This idea of freebirthing ranks right up there with not using toilet paper and flush toilets, something else a lot of moon bats are into.
“They are too eager to induce labor before the mother’s body is ready, and ALL too eager to jump right to a Caesarian just to speed along the process.”
Guess who you can blame for that?
Communist liberal lawyers.
Specifically, we can even blame John Edwards (the politico, not the psychic).
I had my first child with no meds. There wasn’t time - I almost had her in the parking lot.
That’s about the best motive I can think of not to medicate! But then, you avoided all that pushing!
Listening to doctors can have its downside. My first one was induced and it was a big mistake. 2nd one was a much easier delivery because he started to come naturally and my body was ready.
Thank goodness I wasn’t trying to go it alone for the third one though. She twisted sideways in the last couple of weeks and with all that moving around she had the umbilical cord around her neck.
Thank God for doctors and C-sections. You have to be smart about your doctor care and take some of what they tell you and dismiss/decline it, but I don’t believe it’s wise to go it totally alone.
Or the baby is lying on top of the cord and slowly suffocating with every contraction, as was happening with my first baby. I was a week overdue and when they checked his heartrate it was very low. They semnt me to the hospital immediately and induced labor, but quickly concluded a caesarean was necessary for him to survive. If I had not gone to doctors and waited until labor began naturally and then went through labor unassisted, with no heart monitor on the baby, he would almost certainly have died.
“Gravity”.
I really wish that would be more common.
I mean, we have nice adjustable CHAIRS for dentists and even gyoncologists! But no, apparently we’re still stuck in the lying position on a simple guerney, making the “birth canal” perpendicular to gravity.
That is 1 thing I totally disagree with “modern doctors” on.
To you, and others, of course I’m not saying Doctors are bad - obviously, they have their place. The problem is that they have a cobra like effect on ALMOST ALL WOMEN now, and the idea of having a baby without a doctor is like, well, a sin.
Somehow, I think lawyers everywhere are smiling and like it that way, not to mention the doctors.
Would breathing exercises do the trick, freebirthers?
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