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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issue I have is that “natural” very clearly implies superior. That’s why so many food products nowadays slap the label “natural” on the packaging, even though it has zero meaning whatsoever.

And that’s exactly how people are using “natural” in childbirth. Make no mistake, it’s a marketing ploy used by people with an agenda, just like food.

That comes with a steep price. I was pressured into “natural” because I believed all the hype that natural was better. Thank god I developed hypertension at the end of my pregnancy and had to deliver in a hospital, because a home birth could have killed us (baby was stuck).

Maybe we could start using other meat labels? Like a free range birth or a cage free birth. Grass fed birth? That could be fun.  [/quote]

It wouldn't have killed you if the midwives were competent. It would have been a gnarly transfer to the hospital in labor.

I support home births but I will say I have been gaslit by a midwife once. I said I wanted to birth in a hospital for my first and she got super pissy. I later read a study stating half of home births of first time moms end up in the hospital. [/quote]

PP. They weren’t competent. I actually found out after DC was born, the week prior, a family friend’s daughter gave birth with them, they didn’t get her to the hospital in time, and baby ended up with cerebral palsy.

I know another woman who had a midwife that refused to transfer her or do anything about her stuck baby. Mom had to give herself an episiotomy with a kitchen knife and baby ended up with cerebral palsy.

I do agree hospitals need to do better for moms, but I hate that “natural birth” is the only proposed solution. Like, why can’t we just have hospitals and doctors that care about women?

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