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Anyone wants to "deliver" their own baby, like the Kardashians?
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Anonymous
17:52, thank you for your kind words. I'm sorry your births were not exactly as you had hoped they would be. I know there's a lot of forces pout of our control that determine how births go. It sounds like you gave that VBAC an amazing attempt and had great care and support. THAT is groovy 
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Anonymous
| We had a very fast delivery at home, so baby came faster than midwives. DH and I delivered the baby. Empowering, great experience. Of course, I was happy that the midwives came soon after to check everything out. |
Anonymous
Dear God. Would *never* put myself or the baby at risk that way. |
Anonymous
Risk of what, exactly? |
Anonymous
| i had my baby at home too and didn't feel i was putting my baby at risk. in fact i felt safer at home. i know not everyone feels that way, but i did. i had a certified nurse midwife with me who was equipped to handle complications and to transfer me to a hospital if needed. i resent people like you telling me that i put my baby at risk, or implying that they are better parents than i am. we all do what we believe is safest and healthiest for ourselves and our babies, and no one has the right to imply that someone else's choice wasn't safe. |
Anonymous
If this was a planned home birth, it means the parents were prepared and knowledgeable enough to birth their own baby until the skilled midwives came - a safer environment than the hospital for the vast majority of low-risk pregnancies. Media dramatization of births and the rise of obstetric care for normal pregnancies (obstetrics is the branch of medecine that specializes in treating pregnancy and birth PROBLEMS - you don't treat a problem when it is not there) has made society think births are always high-risk situations that may need high-tech help at a second's notice. This generates a fear that is very handicapping, because often the right care for difficult labours is actually patient and gentle positioning of the mother and baby, working together as a team, instead of pitocin and c-section. For that teamwork to happen, mothers need to be confident of their own strength and not fearful. I deplore this just because it contributes to women having a negative self-image about their bodies and capabilities. It holds our gender back, just as media images of anorexic female bodies holds us back. I do not believe it is innocent that obstetrics have always been a male-dominated field. Women are conditioned to think, as I have often read on this board, that somehow parts of their bodies are not perfectly made for birth: their cervix are "incompetent", their uteri cannot contract "efficiently", their perineum could not avoid tearing... (true complications are sometimes unavoidable, of course, but happen rarely). If women and society in general had more knowledge about the normalcy of birth, they would not fear the process. We should be proud and confident in our abilities to birth in a manner of our own informed choosing. |
Anonymous
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l actuallyy saw this episode, as a closet kardashian fan, the doc asked kourtney if she wanted to touch the baby. and she proceeded to pull the baby out. on a sidebar, her sister khloe, said how weird it was that her sister had pulled out the baby and that she thought kourtney may have tore something.
me personally, l think it is very beautiful. |
Anonymous
If it hadn't been a planned homebirth, it would have been an unplanned homebirth or a car birth bc there was no time to get anywhere -- 90 minute labor w unplowed streets. Either of those are way more risky. |