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Anyone see that the video of Anna Dugger giving birth?  

post #1 of 40
10/9/09 at 1:39pm
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It looks like she gave birth at home. If you watch the video it looks like she is in a bedroom and not a hospital. It was announced on the Today show this morning. They are going to be on the show Monday to talk about the birth. I really hope they talk about where she gave birth, especially on that show considering the horrible segment they had on homebirth last month.

Lisa
post #2 of 40
10/9/09 at 2:14pm
I just watched it - SHE DEFINETLY DID HAVE A HOMEBIRTH!!! You can see a closet with clothes hanging up in it!!! Wooo hoooo - good for her!
post #3 of 40
10/9/09 at 2:16pm
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/or...12261093.shtml
post #4 of 40
10/9/09 at 3:01pm
that is so awesome.. only 20 yrs old!
post #5 of 40
10/9/09 at 3:21pm
Yay for her! That rocks!!!
post #6 of 40
10/9/09 at 3:26pm
Oh wow! I was just wondering this morning if she's had the baby yet.
post #7 of 40
10/9/09 at 3:46pm
Yep, it was a homebirth, they did an interview for People, I did a search and it popped up. I have some friends who have mega families like that, and it seems like most of them know to avoid OBs if they can help it.

I think it's great, I believe it will be on TV on the 13th according to what I read.

I've had all my babies at home here, and I don't know though that I would have wanted my first birth televised. It was the toughest one by far, I was so tired at the end. Off in that birthing lala land. Of course, I did get back to that la la land again for my second and third. Never made it for the fourth...he was too quick (accidental UC, my contractions never even got close together!).

And, remember, afterwards with the birth glow and that magical "I love everybody and the whole world is beautiful" stuff that happens...well I don't know if I would have wanted that spread around to everyone and a camera crew. LOL
post #8 of 40
10/9/09 at 3:52pm
Thats great for her! I wonder why they stopped filiming her "dr's appts" and never really mentioned birthing plans? In some of her episodes she went to the same OB that delivers michelle dugger (who also homebirthed) some of her children.
post #9 of 40
10/9/09 at 4:32pm
Good for her. I just hope people aren't like, "Oh, those crazy religious Duggar people have homebirths, so obviously it's nothing I would want to do."
For people who aren't as up on the politics and policies of the current obstetric system, it's easy to think that hospital birthing with all the drugs is the pro-woman, feminist way to do things, y'know? Like that one commentator talks about in the Business of Being Born, many of the early feminists were all about hospital births, because the Bible says that childbirth pains are the curse of Eve, but they were modern women who didn't have to subscribe to that kind of patriarchal belief.
I think I probably felt that way for a long time, and ten years ago, if I heard about Anna Duggar having an unmedicated homebirth, I would have thought it was some sort of oppressive patriarchal thing.
Now, of course, after hundreds of hours of research, I find homebirth for low-risk pregnancies to be incredibly empowering, and the hospital system to be incredibly disempowering (I mean overall, in general).
post #10 of 40
10/9/09 at 5:45pm
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Originally Posted by *MamaJen* View Post
I think I probably felt that way for a long time, and ten years ago, if I heard about Anna Duggar having an unmedicated homebirth, I would have thought it was some sort of oppressive patriarchal thing.
Now, of course, after hundreds of hours of research, I find homebirth for low-risk pregnancies to be incredibly empowering, and the hospital system to be incredibly disempowering (I mean overall, in general).
I think some of our parents/grandparents realize it. My mom is mistified a bit by the way that I birth (I've birthed all at home). She's been amazed at the quality care, the real relationships that we make with our midwives. It's more of a feeling of family when they're there. Totally different than what she experienced.

For my mom she was unconscious during the first three births. They did the twilite sleep on them...well that's what they called it, but in reality it just really makes you out of it and erases your memory apparently. So, she didn't see her first three babies really for a while after birth, after she woke up. With me, she was awake, though they gave her an epidural block. She said that she had no options, the doctors did what they did and you dealt with it.

She said my birth was the best because she was awake for it. I was what they call a 'happy accident', and my siblings are all much older than I am.
post #11 of 40
10/11/09 at 6:07pm
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Originally Posted by luv-my-boys View Post
Thats great for her! I wonder why they stopped filiming her "dr's appts" and never really mentioned birthing plans? In some of her episodes she went to the same OB that delivers michelle dugger (who also homebirthed) some of her children.
This is my question, too! All I saw was the OB appointments, and now I hear they had a homebirth! Personally, when I was going to have a HB I was really excited and would have wanted everyone to know! Maybe they were waiting to see how it turned out first!
post #12 of 40
10/11/09 at 6:12pm
Definitely a homebirth...good for them!

But wow I would not want to go on Good Morning America (or whatever show that is) only a few days PP!
post #13 of 40
10/12/09 at 10:12am
The video clip is on Todayshow.com. Josh Duggar said nice things about the homebirth! Cute baby! The whole family was there.

edited to add: scroll down to "parenting and relationships" and the video says "Grandduggar."
post #14 of 40
10/12/09 at 2:34pm
I just read a Today Show article online and not a PEEP mentioned about it being a homebirth! Their segment a few weeks ago (that a bunch of us signed a petition/letter against) totally slammed homebirth, labelling it 'extreme', like a spa treatment and a trendy thing moms are doing just because celebs are doing it. Ugh. I imagine the closest spa treatment a natural birth could be compared to would be a Brazillian wax job!!

You'd think Today Show producers would be doing a bit of backtracking to eat their words. They love the Duggers, wouldn't want to make them mad!
post #15 of 40
10/12/09 at 3:06pm
They were all on the Today Show this morning. Meredith Viera mentioned that it was a homebirth and said to Anna, "That itself was very brave!" And then went on to ask Josh how he felt catching the baby himself and how Michelle Duggar was out of state and showed up about 20 minutes before the birth.
post #16 of 40
10/12/09 at 8:56pm
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Definitely a homebirth...good for them!

But wow I would not want to go on Good Morning America (or whatever show that is) only a few days PP!
I didn't see the clip. Did they fly everybody to NY for the clip or did they do it via sattlelite.

for Anna and Josh for having a homebirth.

for Meridith for saying Anna was brave for homebirthing.
post #17 of 40
10/12/09 at 11:55pm
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Originally Posted by jess152 View Post
I just read a Today Show article online and not a PEEP mentioned about it being a homebirth! Their segment a few weeks ago (that a bunch of us signed a petition/letter against) totally slammed homebirth, labelling it 'extreme', like a spa treatment and a trendy thing moms are doing just because celebs are doing it. Ugh. I imagine the closest spa treatment a natural birth could be compared to would be a Brazillian wax job!!

You'd think Today Show producers would be doing a bit of backtracking to eat their words. They love the Duggers, wouldn't want to make them mad!
Well, I guess the Duggars are "celebs", so therefore, they are expected to do such "crazy" things!
post #18 of 40
10/13/09 at 2:18pm
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Originally Posted by Belle View Post
I didn't see the clip. Did they fly everybody to NY for the clip or did they do it via sattlelite.

for Anna and Josh for having a homebirth.

for Meridith for saying Anna was brave for homebirthing.
It was via satellite.
post #19 of 40
10/13/09 at 11:42pm
Just watched the show. There doctor was on holidays and so they just decided last minute to have a homebirth since she didn't want any of the other doctors.

They asked their bradly instructor if she would still doula for them even if they were going to do it themselves at home and so she was there with homebirth supplies!

So not only a homebirth but a last minute let's stay home and pretty much unassisted! Wow! I was almost in tears! The first thing I did was log on here!
post #20 of 40
10/13/09 at 11:50pm
That is so awesome! Go girl!

There is a tiny part of me that wonders if one of the reasons she didn't want another doctor was because she's sort of a celebrity and maybe she was worried about her privacy being violated (I know I'd worry about that). Just a thought. I do sincerely hope the reason she had a UC was because she felt that was the best thing for her!
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