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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]wow.

I'm an anesthesiologist, and I've had 5 kids, four by c-section.

Clear liquids, great!  Food?  You better be healthy, reasonably slim, with a normal labor pattern and a healthy baby.  Yeah, midwives are great, but they pass all the sick patients to the OB docs, that's why everything's so "awesome" with midwives.

If you're sick, the baby's sick, or you're obese, you're at higher risk of emergency C-section.  Your airway is swollen during pregnancy, 10x higher risk of complications during breathing tube placement for general anesthesia.  You will become very ill, or die, if chunks of food or stomach acid end up in your lungs.

off topic, for all the "natural" childbirth fans-- being induced with drugs (pitocin, cytotec) is NOT natural.  If you don't want an epidural, no problem, but going without painkillers is only part of the "natural" experience.  No medals are awarded for drug-free vaginal delivery; we all just want healthy babies!

I breastfed all my kids until 13 months, no formula, so don't give me crap for having 4 medically necessary c-sections.  I have some hippie cred!  :)[/quote]

This post is so weird. I had 2 natural child births in a hospital with midwives. They started an IV line (just in case) but I wasn’t hooked up to an IV and I could move around freely. I ate a little bit of snacks during my first labor but nothing the second time around - baby came quickly. I preferred to have a natural birth because I didn’t want major abdominal surgery and all the risks that come with it. However, the reason I delivered in a hospital is because wanted the option of a C-section if it became medically necessary.

I think it’s beyond strange that you equate preferring to avoid surgery with being a hippie.

Also, I have had surgery before, I know what anesthesia is like and my body does not respond well to it. I definitely didn’t want to deal with the side effects while caring for a newborn if I could help it. I guess to you that makes me an anti-science hippie for only having medically necessary surgeries.  :roll:

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