Anonymous
Post 11/14/2011 09:25     Subject: Med-free labor trend
yes med free is a choice, although a stupid choice it doesn't mean a med free birther should look down on a med birther or vice versa
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2011 14:33     Subject: Med-free labor trend
Even though getting an epidural resulted in intense pain on my tailbone which still hurts 10 weeks PP, I would get it again. Labor pains is a bitch, I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2011 14:21     Subject: Med-free labor trend
The goal should be to have a healthy baby and a healthy mom with the least intervention. What interventions are deemed necessary is completely up to the mom, dad and doc. While working in labor and delivery I saw women so exhausted by very long med free labors that they were unable to successfully push and vacuums were used. For those moms, some med intervention would have been beneficial. I saw births where the induction and epidural seemed to stall the labor. I've seen other births go amazingly well - some med free, some with epidurals because that is what was right for that family and they each chose the least intervention to give them the best birth outcomes. C-sections as a back-up for difficult labors are necessary.

The only thing personally have an issue with is elective C-sections for non medically necessary reasons.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2011 14:09     Subject: Re:Med-free labor trend
Anonymous wrote:Is it really "dr." Amy Tueter on here? I find her to be so disturbing. I printed something of hers off for my OB to read - back in the day when I was first learning about pregnancy and trying to figure out how to best participate in my own care, and my OB told me that she was full of shit. My surgeon father told me that people like her, or Dr. Oz, or worse, even those "Drs" that sling weight loss products, are basically just entertainment. Just because you have a medical degree does not mean you are necessarily qualified or an expert. There are lots of doctors, and some of them are as nutty as the rest of the population. These people are generally to be avoided, and when you run into them, well, run the other way. I expect that if "Dr" Amy actually practices, she has a lot of unhappy patients, and a lot of mid-pregnancy transfers. She's probably just fine for people who want to be spoonfed opinion as "fact," and doesn't mind an OB with her head firmly up her ass. My real-life, great OB disagrees with a ton of the crap she puts on her blog. She has a blog and a persona, he doesn't. But, uh, he has real patients. And was a GREAT OB.


She hasn't practiced in 20 years, and her license expired a decade ago, I think. She's sold her soul and her "name" to some special interest group somewhere.
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2011 17:46     Subject: Re:Med-free labor trend
Is it really "dr." Amy Tueter on here? I find her to be so disturbing. I printed something of hers off for my OB to read - back in the day when I was first learning about pregnancy and trying to figure out how to best participate in my own care, and my OB told me that she was full of shit. My surgeon father told me that people like her, or Dr. Oz, or worse, even those "Drs" that sling weight loss products, are basically just entertainment. Just because you have a medical degree does not mean you are necessarily qualified or an expert. There are lots of doctors, and some of them are as nutty as the rest of the population. These people are generally to be avoided, and when you run into them, well, run the other way. I expect that if "Dr" Amy actually practices, she has a lot of unhappy patients, and a lot of mid-pregnancy transfers. She's probably just fine for people who want to be spoonfed opinion as "fact," and doesn't mind an OB with her head firmly up her ass. My real-life, great OB disagrees with a ton of the crap she puts on her blog. She has a blog and a persona, he doesn't. But, uh, he has real patients. And was a GREAT OB.
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2011 17:11     Subject: Med-free labor trend
Natural birther here (the person who said she didn't like needles and didn't mind the pain) -- I'm not in the crazy hippie circles I suppose, but I don't think I've ever met anyone who wanted to delay cord clamping for oxygen purposes. Most of them do so because they'd like the blood in the cord to go to the baby rather than have the cord cut before that happens.
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2011 12:53     Subject: Med-free labor trend
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I have an idea!!!
If you want a drug free birth, have one!
I have another idea!!!!!
If you want an epidural, get one!!!!!!
Wow, that was actually pretty easy....


Wow, what a snarky oversimplification of a complex issue...


Not snarky at all. And not an oversimplification to say do what works for you and let others do the same.
What seems to be so complex to so many of you is that you can't get everyone to agree with you, whichever side you're on. It's not that complex to let people have the birth experiences they want, have the opinions they want regarding that birth experience, and to stop judging everyone for the choices they make.