A little long winded..._bitterglitter_February 12 2008, 03:13:36 UTC
That's cool. I've got mixed feelings about birth, which is why I chose to have a midwife rather than an OB. OBs scare me. I feel that a midwife would be a better advocate for my wants and needs during the birth.
So far my plan is to wait until the last possible moment to go to the hospital and not decide on medication until I know what I'm experiencing. Labor seems so surreal to me right now that I can't make that decision. But waiting until the last minute will allow me to avoid "interventions" such as pitocin and artificial breaking of the waters. Baby can stay in until it's ready to come out as far as I'm concerned. I don't know why people feel the need to rush the process.
Re: A little long winded...fishcatFebruary 13 2008, 01:42:23 UTC
Good for you!! When I saw this movie I realized how few images there are of women laboring in a natural and healthy way. Everything we see in the media is fear inducing. It's seen as painful and scary. When I saw these images of women fully in their bodies and in the experience, in control, I realized just how misled I had been. I cried at the beauty of it. Our society doesn't let us see things that might be painful, intense or messy like birth -and death.
I also recently saw a short video on russian water births which was amazing!
Re: A little long winded..._bitterglitter_February 13 2008, 01:55:07 UTC
In the pregnant lj community there has been a lot of talk about this recently. It's really weird that what is natural has become "abnormal". One woman commented that she hates having to preface anything she says about her birth experience with "natural". She thinks people who have inductions and drugs should have to preface their births with something. Also, breastfeeding-it's strange that people assume formula feeding and the exception is breastfeeding. When did we get so...weird???
Re: A little long winded...fishcatFebruary 13 2008, 02:03:46 UTC
There has been about a 100 years of intervention, misinformation, propaganda that has totally changed the way American women experience birth. And these changes havent made birth safer or healthier for mamas or babies. The US has one of the highest mortality rates of any industrialized nation. Most women in Europe give birth at home with a midwife and have fewer "complications". They didn't lose their midwives. In the 20s there were horrible smear campaigns against midwives as women were convinced that they needed to be treated by an MD and that pregnancy was a medical emergency.... Now 1 in 3 births is Cesarean.
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I've got mixed feelings about birth, which is why I chose to have a midwife rather than an OB. OBs scare me. I feel that a midwife would be a better advocate for my wants and needs during the birth.
So far my plan is to wait until the last possible moment to go to the hospital and not decide on medication until I know what I'm experiencing. Labor seems so surreal to me right now that I can't make that decision. But waiting until the last minute will allow me to avoid "interventions" such as pitocin and artificial breaking of the waters. Baby can stay in until it's ready to come out as far as I'm concerned. I don't know why people feel the need to rush the process.
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When I saw this movie I realized how few images there are of women laboring in a natural and healthy way. Everything we see in the media is fear inducing. It's seen as painful and scary. When I saw these images of women fully in their bodies and in the experience, in control, I realized just how misled I had been. I cried at the beauty of it. Our society doesn't let us see things that might be painful, intense or messy like birth -and death.
I also recently saw a short video on russian water births which was amazing!
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