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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In many countries, throughout history, birth was not feared or experienced as torturously painful.  A lot of work, yes, but also blissful, gorgeous, celebrated.  It is a shame many women miss out on that experience.  Every woman deserves to birth surrounded by love, deference, and respect.[/quote]

What a load of mythical horseshit.

Throughout history birth HAS been feared. Someone's looking at historical and infant mortality rates with rose colored glasses.[/quote]

The maternal mortality rates thrown around here are completely fabricated.  50%??  That was when charity "lying in" hospitals began, and the doctors refused to wash their hands, passing disease from corpse to new mother.  Healthy women attended by skilled midwives in their own homes usually had excellent outcomes.  Martha Ballard, a midwife practicing in New England in the 1700s, did not lose a single mother (out of about 1,000) in childbirth, and only 5 died postpartum.  She only recorded about a 5% complication rate, with most complications minor.  Sheila Kitzinger, if I remember correctly, has an exhaustive anthropological history of childbirth.

I can only encourage women to read widely about birth around the world.  Watch The Business of Being Born, Gentle Birth Choices, Orgasmic Birth.  For their own sake, women should approach birth as informed, confident, active participants.  And that means being prepared to go unmedicated, because birth is unpredictable.  There may not be time for medication, or it may not work.  Fear, apprehension, stress, and tension all get in the way of the positive sensations of birth.  So however birth goes, it is best to prepare enough to be relaxed and at peace with your choices.

For me, I cannot wait for my next sensual, glorious homebirth![/quote]

Thank YOU!  Women need only to do basic research into this issue to discover that it is far more complicated than pain vs. no pain.  I had one in hospital with an epi, and my other two med free in a birth center.  I would never do another epi.  I had so many complications with the epi -and nearly ended up with an emergency C at 10 cms.  Zero complications at the birth center.  Just do your due diligence folks, and make an informed choice.[/quote]

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