Ahh, to the ignorant masses (this means most of you)

[seikojin]

I watched a movie called The business of making babies. It is a documentary about how people are ignorant to the problem of hospital birthing... A problem with it? yes, a big problem.

Something I have known for quite a while now is the difference between natural birthing and induced birthing. Induced birthing is supposed to have benifits. Instead

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[moxiegrrl]

The movie was really great. The more the word gets out, the better the outcome for women and children in the U.S. That being said, there are specific cases where a woman should birth in a hospital for the safety of herself as well as her baby. Those instances are pretty rare, despite hearing stories from friends and families like, "Oh I am so glad I birthed in the hospital because I ended up having a C-section and if we would have been at home, my baby could have died." That's ignorance talking, for the most part. If these women knew how the hospital birth is set up, they would know that they were set up for "failure to progress" and then intervention upon intervention would be flung upon them with the final result being an "emergency C-section". In most cases, there never would have been an "emergency" had the woman and the labor been allowed to progress naturally without intervention

[seikojin]

I totally agree. you'd think people with half a cent of thought would realize this... But they don't. Stupid money >: ( I definitely won't go for induced labor unless there is a severe need (life threatening). *hug* Thank you soo much for that movie. I knew natural birthing was the right way... That film just shows why.

[moxiegrrl]

It's not just induced labors, but hospital births in general. Induction adds an increased element of progressive intervention, but just birthing in a hospital naturally, has it's own risks....MRSA for one, not to mention the hordes of other germs there. Dirty places hospitals are. And then there's the coercion to immunize your newborn with vaccines to "prevent" diseases (whole other soapbox there), the disposable diapers your baby is swaddled in immediately, the "hospital gift bag" that includes all the things you need to set yourself up for breastfeeding failure (multiple formula samples, pacifiers, a book telling you to put your baby on a feeding schedule, etc). The list goes on. Induction is only one facet of the complex weave.

[seikojin]

Coercion is the right word for the whole kit and kaboodle... They lure you into soo much to get at your money. Fuckin greed...

I am glad we are educated in this. I know if I was younger, I am sure I would have been pressured into doing something I would have regretted later O.o

Education reform... They need to put natural education into public schools. That's where all the sheeple are, and unfortunatly, that is also where most of the change can take a good root. :(