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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of the things the women in the article discuss are familiar to me.  I had severe preeclampsia and gave birth at 29w. I also had 8 significant fibroids, which combined with low-platelets and an emergent c/s led to an emergency hysterectomy.  There should have been much better communication between the various providers I was seeing-I assumed that they were sharing notes, but in retrospect I don't think that was necessarily true.

And while I totally support less medicalized births for lower-risk women,[b] I think the natural birth community endangers the lives of women with preeclampsia every day.[/b]  As one of the women in the article said, natural birth people say that preeclampsia happens to women who don't eat well and don't take care of themselves, and I've seen in books and online dangerous advice to try and fix preeclampsia with dietary and herb routines.[/quote]

I don't think this is fair at all.  Any "community" that gives advice not backed by science is dangerous.  But, as someone who had pre-e and gave birth UNMEDICATED, I did not encounter this view at all.[/quote]

I posted upthread about my experience.  I developed GD with my first and GD and pre-e with my second, so my experience is a couple years out of date now.  But when I was pregnant with my first, there was a big pushin the natural birth movement to trivialize or ignore GD.  It "wasn't real", doctors had changed the cutoffs, glucose is harmful so avoid it and the test, etc.  That's not helpful.  It's harmful.  And so is the Brewer diet which, best case scenario, will make the mother gain 80 lbs during pregnancy and won't do a thing to prevent pre-eclampsia but may make her feel bad if she gets it.  [/quote]

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