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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] Isn’t this the case for any and all medical procedure and surgeries?  I mean if they amputate a limb is pain relief really medically necessary?[/quote]

Oh this is just about the dumbest thing I've ever heard.  Birth is not a medical procedure any more than eating a sandwich is, or taking a big dump.  Yes it can be uncomfortable and even painful.  Yes sometimes things go awry and medical intervention is needed.  But otherwise... it what our bodies were literally designed to do.

And yes, I had an umedicated birth, so don't @ me.  [/quote]

LOL.  You’re insane.  You are incredibly sexist.  Who compares birth to taking a dump??  [/quote]

A person who understands biology, and was prepared for (and had) an unmedicated birth.  I think its much more sexist to say "women cannot do the thing they were designed to do without medical intervention."  Don't we trust women a little more than that?  I have no problem with a woman who wants pain meds, getting pain meds.  But to assume it should be the default, or is necessary, because women just can't handle it -- nope, that's sexist.[/quote]

NP.  I was also prepared for an unmedicated birth.  Then PROM happened, contractions didn't start on their own, and I was put on pitocin.  Then the pitocin was cranked up because I wasn't dilating at all.  So, yeah, after 12 hours of that particular torture (which, sorry, all my planning/hypnobirthing/natural childbirth classes didn't help), I took the epidural when my midwife suggested it.  It's wrong to suggest that women who eventually need an epidural just weren't well prepared.  Stuff happens.  [/quote]

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