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Anyone wants to "deliver" their own baby, like the Kardashians?
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Anonymous
| Just wondering ... it was sort of creepy at first, but the idea is starting to grow on me. Will this be the new trend? |
Anonymous
| please everyone, don't get your birthing advice from a reality t.v. show. |
Anonymous
| I don't know what the Kardashians did..... but I think it is wise to always have skilled help nearby when you are having a baby. If you want something very low-key, have a homebirth but hire a midwife who will be nearby to help just in case you need some medical care. |
Anonymous
| She just pulled her baby our, once the head and shoulders came out. |
Anonymous
| Why in God's name would you pull out your own baby without any there to help you? If you love your baby so much you would make sure you had help nearby. Anything could happen! |
Anonymous
| This thread doesn't really explain what happened. She had the baby in the hospital with doctors and nurses all around (and family) and what seemed to me MUST have been an epidural. As the baby was half/mostly out, the doctor said to her, do you want to pull him (or something to that effect), and she took him into her arms. This was not a home birth or anything like that. |
Anonymous
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i caught my own baby too. i had a home birth, with a skilled midwife in attendance. i was in the water and saw her come out and reached down and pulled her up to my chest. it was amazing! i felt very empowered knowing i didn't need anyone else to catch by baby and could do it by myself. i liked that my hands were the first ones to hold and touch my daughter.
i saw this video and thought it was great to see a mama participating in catching her own baby. i agree that it is helpful to have skilled assistance nearby, but that doesn't mean we as women aren't capable of catching our own babies as they are born. |
Anonymous
| in lots of cultures around the world it is the norm for a mother to catch her own baby, or to have her family or friends catch the baby. in america, in the hospital system, doctors or midwives typically do this task, but in lots of places in the world, it would be weirder to have a doctor catch the baby than it would for the mom to do it herself. in home births in the US it's common for the mom or her partner to catch the baby. i think it would be great if this was more encouraged in hospital births too, for those who are interested. it's fun! |
Anonymous
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Why on earth would an expectant mother find it "creepy" to catch her own child?
We're definitely not talking free-birthing here! |
Anonymous
| Obviously because you have no other choice, and if you do love your baby, if they are ready to come out then they are ready to come out, you can't goddamn well block the way and shove them back in every time they are showing themselves to be coming, plus tyou're in goddamn fcking pain! |
Anonymous
| Feeling "empowered" - really, the very last thing on my mind when having a baby. Healthy, safe, no complications - that's what I was focusing on. Maybe I feel "empowered" enough in my day to day life that I don't need birth to be a proving ground. |
Anonymous
Wow, someone's got a stick up their a**. |
Anonymous
THAT'S all? OP, this is so NOT uncommon. I did it. Kind of nice. I mean, don't do it if you don't want to, but it's not some way-out-there wacky idea. |
Anonymous
I'm the PP who you seem to be referring to. You seem to imply that me feeling empowered by my birth experience was selfish or that I didn't care about having a healthy, safe baby. That wasn't the case. I didn't see any reason why I couldn't have a healthy baby AND a birth that made me feel good about myself, and that is what I had. Feeling empowered by birth doesn't mean that I am not empowered in my day to day life -- birth to me WAS part of day to day life, and happened to be empowering for me. I can't imagine why you would attack me for that.
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Anonymous
| Wow PP, so sorry that you had that response. Maybe she is jealous. I really wanted to have a birth like yours - had a c-section for a footling breach and a failed vbac (water broke for 48 hours, didn't go into labor, baby didn't respond well to pitocin, back to surgery). Alas, even midwives and a doula who had studied at The Farm couldn't get me a groovy birth, but I'm so happy that you and your baby had what sounds like an awesome start. Not cool at all to attack you. Not sure if she is really in need of Wine O'Clock or still hung over and grumpy from the last one, yeesh. |