Comments | brideofbeowulf: Childbirth

brideofbeowulf

Childbirth

Mar 07, 2010 12:31

I read part of the chapter on childbirth in my EMT textbook this morning. TERRIFYING! There is not way the huge baby in those scale anatomy drawings is going to fit through that tiny cervix! I am so glad I have never wanted to bear children. I mean, if you want to do it, I'll be happy to arrive in an ambulance and help if I can -- as long as ( Read more... )

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dechiree March 7 2010, 19:28:59 UTC

DITTO!!! This is my #1 reason to adopt.

thecuddlycactus March 8 2010, 02:17:37 UTC

I remember in bio 150b, the professor brought out a human pelvis, and a baby-head-sized grapefruit, and it doesn't work one bit!

the1butterfly March 8 2010, 13:53:01 UTC

I'm excited about having kids- and I'm pumped for natural birth because after it's over I can tell everyone I did it (we'll see how pumped I feel for child 2- but then my mom didn't know she was in labor with me and by the time she figured it out and made it to the hospital, I was crowning). That's like climbing Mount Everest or something! If I couldn't get to a hospital, you'd definitely be on the list of people I'd choose to help deliver my baby.

startrails March 8 2010, 18:33:08 UTC

But aren't things kind of stretchy?

Despite all (doubts, fears, etc.), I still think if I really had a choice, I would want to have children.

startrails March 8 2010, 18:35:39 UTC

Added: I think the process of labor does wonders for the stretchiness. If you were to try to give birth now (like, a baby miraculously appeared inside you and said it wanted out) it probably wouldn't work without tearing things apart, but I think labor prepares the body for the actual getting the baby out process.