2 things
1) Before we got rid of cable I was a total birth show junkie. Everyone who knows me, especially dh, could never understand why I watched them so much when they were obviously everything I stood against. I watched them b/c it made me more determined to have a natural hb. It reaffirms my views and I rejoice in my choices every time I see pit augmented labor, etc. It sounds like I revel in others' misery, but that isn't really it. If you watch, a lot of those moms aren't that upset afterwards. Their births were what they expected them to be. I know I want a better, more loving experience for my children and myself.
My sister gets epi's. She actually had her last baby while having a conversation with someone, no staff in the room, the baby born under the sheet b/c she couldn't feel anything. My mom said it was the most bizarre, unnatural thing she's every seen, that there was just something so WRONG about it. But, hey, that is what my sis wants from her births-just like any other day...
2)I read in a birth book somewhere, maybe it was Ina May's, that there was a husband and wife that were both ob's. They had a hb, but they talked about how ob's do internships in inner city hospitals and stuff where they see a lot of women with no prenatal care and a lot of emergency situations. The wife said that normal births were never really taught in med school and that most ob's develop this 'how can we make this more efficient/better' attitude that supports interventions, etc. I think that after a while, most obs believe that a natural, normal birth is a myth.
The Dutch require that ob's study at the midwifery school for a while. That is such a good idea. Every country should require that.
1) Before we got rid of cable I was a total birth show junkie. Everyone who knows me, especially dh, could never understand why I watched them so much when they were obviously everything I stood against. I watched them b/c it made me more determined to have a natural hb. It reaffirms my views and I rejoice in my choices every time I see pit augmented labor, etc. It sounds like I revel in others' misery, but that isn't really it. If you watch, a lot of those moms aren't that upset afterwards. Their births were what they expected them to be. I know I want a better, more loving experience for my children and myself.
My sister gets epi's. She actually had her last baby while having a conversation with someone, no staff in the room, the baby born under the sheet b/c she couldn't feel anything. My mom said it was the most bizarre, unnatural thing she's every seen, that there was just something so WRONG about it. But, hey, that is what my sis wants from her births-just like any other day...
2)I read in a birth book somewhere, maybe it was Ina May's, that there was a husband and wife that were both ob's. They had a hb, but they talked about how ob's do internships in inner city hospitals and stuff where they see a lot of women with no prenatal care and a lot of emergency situations. The wife said that normal births were never really taught in med school and that most ob's develop this 'how can we make this more efficient/better' attitude that supports interventions, etc. I think that after a while, most obs believe that a natural, normal birth is a myth.
The Dutch require that ob's study at the midwifery school for a while. That is such a good idea. Every country should require that.
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