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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The natural birth cultists are a lot like anti-vaxers. They will believe what they want, evidence-based medicine be damned. [/quote]

Yes. There was a woman in my babycenter.com birth month group (don't judge) that decided to have an unassisted childbirth.  She bragged about it the whole 9 months - all the stuff she read, how confident she was, etc. She went into labor and posted about it - her dumbass boyfriend had a friend over and he and the friend were playing video games.

I don't know how long she labored before she figured out she wasn't progressing. She eventually went to the hospital. Her baby didn't make it - had been deprived of oxygen. I think of her every once in awhile. She seemed not to really grasp the enormity of what had happened or was having trouble really comprehending it.  I felt sorry for her but also angry at the waste.[/quote]

The stillbirth may have been caused by her decision to labor at home but it may have happened if she had started laboring at the hospital.  There's no way to know and no real reason to judge her.  She went to the hospital, didn't have an unassisted birth at home.  No different than if she had left for the hospital at the start of labor and gotten delayed in a traffic jam.  [/quote]

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