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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Homebirth has far fewer “routine” interventions. As a very healthy woman, I didn’t want hospital protocols constantly interfering with MY birthing process. It’s not like they allow you to refuse much of anything. I need to trust my attendants to actually hear and respect what I’m telling them. It’s my birth, not theirs. They don’t get to control me. Sorry.[/quote]

Actually it’s your CHILD’s birth and your “attendants” are the medically trained experts, not you. Such classic narcissistic perspective. [/quote]

This. I am as pro choice as they come but when the baby is being born, it’s THEIR birth and not yours. Do I think the mother should be able to elect to save her own life over the baby’s during her birth? YES. Before anyone argues me that point. But a mother saying she wants to have “her birth experience” be in a bathtub in her bedroom because it’s HER CHOICE I just can’t help but think how little she realizes that the baby doesn’t care about any of that, the baby just wants to be born alive and healthy. [/quote]

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