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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK - if you don't want medical intervention such as a low risk IV lock then WHY HAVE YOUR BIRTH IN A HOSPITAL?

I agree that giving birth is totally safe. You chose to have a hospital birth. The hospital feels the risks of not having an IV outweigh are significant enough to have one.

I'm on the side of the hospital. [/quote]

this is less the case in the DC area, but when I gave birth to my first, I was living in, essentially, the middle of nowhere. It was birth in the hospital, with the OBs and all that jazz, or give birth at home, without any assistance. There were no homebirth midwives anywhere close to me. And a birth center? PLEASE! don't make me laugh. This is the reality many women in this country face every day as they prepare for birth. Just because I live in DC now, where I have so many birth options, doesn't mean I shouldn't question and advocate for the birth industrial complex to engage in best practices rather than falling back on tradition and scare tactics like they do now.[/quote]

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