Love this essay, and Mazel tov on your new child! Just remember, women have been giving birth for the ages, our bodies are designed for this, and that you are strong and fierce! Never have I felt so strongly about what I would suffer for and defend as I have when my children were born.
True true ... but we also seem to forget that until relatively recently 1 in 20 women died in childbirth. Just because itтАЩs natural doesnтАЩt mean itтАЩs safe. IтАЩm thankful everyday for the miracle of modern medicine that saved my sonтАЩs life during childbirth and angry everyday at the shame other women inflicted on me because I had a c section, as if thereтАЩs a prize you deserve beyond a healthy baby.
Agreed. We really do forget how dangerous childbirth was - and that patriarchal society allowing for multiple wives probably was considered an answer to that. But women now also elect c sections just to avoid pain, and doctors are losing age old skills because they default to c sections more and more. What happens when we no longer have antibiotics to clear infection or drugs to make the cut?
IтАЩm grateful to the medicine that allowed for me to have a c section. This article makes me want to try for a totally natural birth next just to stick it to the anti-pain establishment! (But weтАЩll seeтАж)
WellllllllтАж not just to avoid pain. Also to avoid myriad other things. Childbirth doesnтАЩt always go according to тАЬbirth planтАЭ. There are so many bad outcomes that are avoided by c section which is why many physicians also elect c section when they have their own babies. Doulas are nice and IтАЩm no fan of big pharma but weтАЩve come a long to way to prevent death and harm to babies who at the end of the day matter more to me than the experience. When it goes well thatтАЩs fantastic but when it doesnтАЩt, itтАЩs a lifetime of tragedy.
Love this essay, and Mazel tov on your new child!
Just remember, women have been giving birth for the ages, our bodies are designed for this, and that you are strong and fierce!
Never have I felt so strongly about what I would suffer for and defend as I have when my children were born.
True true ... but we also seem to forget that until relatively recently 1 in 20 women died in childbirth. Just because itтАЩs natural doesnтАЩt mean itтАЩs safe. IтАЩm thankful everyday for the miracle of modern medicine that saved my sonтАЩs life during childbirth and angry everyday at the shame other women inflicted on me because I had a c section, as if thereтАЩs a prize you deserve beyond a healthy baby.
Agreed. We really do forget how dangerous childbirth was - and that patriarchal society allowing for multiple wives probably was considered an answer to that. But women now also elect c sections just to avoid pain, and doctors are losing age old skills because they default to c sections more and more. What happens when we no longer have antibiotics to clear infection or drugs to make the cut?
IтАЩm grateful to the medicine that allowed for me to have a c section. This article makes me want to try for a totally natural birth next just to stick it to the anti-pain establishment! (But weтАЩll seeтАж)
WellllllllтАж not just to avoid pain. Also to avoid myriad other things. Childbirth doesnтАЩt always go according to тАЬbirth planтАЭ. There are so many bad outcomes that are avoided by c section which is why many physicians also elect c section when they have their own babies. Doulas are nice and IтАЩm no fan of big pharma but weтАЩve come a long to way to prevent death and harm to babies who at the end of the day matter more to me than the experience. When it goes well thatтАЩs fantastic but when it doesnтАЩt, itтАЩs a lifetime of tragedy.
Very true!