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[silver_wolf101]

This is one of the reasons I love my birth professor so much - her choice of words. I'm studying/reviewing the information she posted online. Right now, it's the various stages of labor. During the second stage of labor (pushing) she actually wrote: "It feels like you're pushing your baby out of your butt." It amuses me

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[luckyckljw]

When my friend in Illinois had her first baby, she looked at birthing centers that offered things like birthing chairs and a water-birth setup. I don't recall any details other than I have heard that water birth makes the mother "feel less like a beached whale."

[silver_wolf101]

Actually, water birth does more then just get the weight off of a woman. It helps with the contractions by making them a lot easier to deal with. Also there's the notion that if the baby is born in the water then it's not so harsh a transition from the womb to the outside world.

[luckyckljw]

I thought it was something like that, but couldn't remember anything else off the top of my head. Makes sense, I suppose, about the easing transition.

[silverkilroy]

Ditto. Better safe than sorry. There are just too many things that could go wrong, even though the odds of critical problems are generally low...

[silver_wolf101]

Midwives will get the mother to the hospital as soon as they realize that they have to. There's usually an emergency everything set up just in case.

[silver_wolf101]

Yeah...but from what I understand, hospital births are often a lot less mother oriented and more doctor/time oriented. They often shave her vag and give her an enema unless otherwise told not to. Plus the amount of drugs they pump in is insane for mom and baby.

I never said they're evil. You're right, in a lot of cases hospitals are the safest place. However, with a relatively healthy mother, you can do a home birth just as well.

[crossp]

Are there really upsides to home births? Other than vague stuff like "feeling less stressed"?

Unless your house is set up for emergency surgery... fuck it.

[silver_wolf101]

There are a crapton of upsides to home births. 1.) Baby has a chance to do the breast crawl and get a proper latch on the nipple

[crossp]

I imagine 3, 6, 7, and 8 would be accommodated by even a conservative hospital upon request. 12 is the only one that seems like an amazing reason to me.

Unlikely

[lord_of_entropy]

#3 Less drugs are possible at a hospital birth, but that does not mean that the default of the two is inaccurate. Striving to make hospital births better then they are standardised to be is a noble goal

[sagediscordia]

inducing labor with sex?

hospital..a nice one.

[silver_wolf101]

I'd say birthing center instead personally :-P

[silver_wolf101]

Yeah...semen has an extremely high concentration of prostaglandins, which soften the cervix and help ready it for dilation.

[lifeblender]

That's... got to be positively selected by evolution. Which is a bit creepy. Semen and sperm have as little as possible in them so that they go as far as possible into the woman. An extra chemical like that, in useful amounts... future-mother****ing must be a positive survival trait.

Or there could be a confounding factor, but even so. Weird.

[doctorcurly]

Why choose only one?

Walking castor oil nipple stimulation breast-pump sex FTW!

[silver_wolf101]

That...that is an awkward image to say the least. O_o