This makes me crazy!!!! HB bashing

[kismetbaby]

Right now on the main page of mnsbc.com there is a video story titled "The Perils of Homebirth". (Considered a "health" piece.)

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Please only look this up if you can handle hearing about birth story with a terrible outcome. Basically the whole video/interview clip revolves around this tragic HB story as a scare tactic to bash the safety of HB. Its horrible! And it seems to blame The Business of Being Born for a new popularity of HB (b/c that's such a horrible thing!). Argh! They do at the end include a couple who had a good HB, but they absolutely downplay that to the usual "HB isn't as safe as the hospital" line.

Of course loosing a baby is a terrible, terrible thing, but blaming that on HB alone is just so irresponsible and #@%*ed up.

Sorry to sound so crazed, but I feel very passionately about this. I think women should birth wherever they decide, I'm not against hospitals, I just can't stand the media scare tactics and the idea that HB is inherently a risky and extreme choice! Okay. . .calming down now. . .

[angelachristin]

I just saw another post that this was on the Today show. We usually watch parts of that, but I didn't see it today and thankfully neither did my husband! I have to say, I'm getting really sick of ALL of this crap...it's like these "news" shows, etc., are paid off by the doctors and big pharma and whoever else to try to scare the public whenever they start to worry that something is interfering with their bottom line...like homebirth, non-vaxing, etc....I am so so sick of it!

[kismetbaby]

Yeah, in my outrage I forgot to say that this was a piece from the Today show. From this morning I think? (We don't have TV so I find my news and TV shows on the internet.) But the clip is on msnbc and can be watched online. . .not that any of us pg ladies need the elevated blood pressure over this!

What was funny (in the midst of the outrage), was that they were acting like HB was this new popular trend and mentioned celebrities that had HBs (gasp!). . .of course, I think its awesome that HB might be gaining some recognition/popularity, but they acted like people were just blinding following some dangerous, hippie trend. Argh, double argh. . .how exactly did people have babies all those centuries before hospitals I wonder. . .???

[Earth Momma]

great timing since I havn't told my family yet - there all nurses, and OB nurses - I"d rather fight after the fact and have the birth I want then before and be stressed out the whole time!

[rebeccajm]

Check out the responses, though. Sounds like the story is not being taken very seriously!

http://www.newsvine.com/_question/20...potential-risk

[bicyclingbethany]

If it wasn't for the fact that so many people will watch that piece and actually take it at face value (and because it is tragic that family lost their child), it would be almost laughable! Comparing HB to a SPA TREATMENT!?! My next birth, I'll have to remember and call someone to come and give me a pedi/mani right before I hit transition.

[phytoangel]

if this was aired in europe, they would laugh at the idiocy that is portrayed by the media. thank goodness there are still people out there that can see through all of the s#$t and realize that the media loves to stir things up.

also, one thing that i didn't understand was that they said that she was in labor for 4 days???? no midwife would let a woman go through that. i wonder what they considered 'labor'? that was the only thing that i found odd.