I'd love to hear a discussion about this, fellow Mamas. 
(I don't want to get into the zone of having people who needed drugs for one reason or another in childbirth to feel guilty, get flamed, etc.)
This topic is so intriguing! I can't believe it's not at the forefront of our culture in the U.S. today. (Well, actually, I can
: )
Any thoughts or input out there?
Here's the quote from the Mothering site by Michel Odent:
Since the 1970s we learnt that obstetric medications may also have long term side effects. Visit our data base www.birthworks.org/primalhealth and click, for example, on the key word 'drug addiction'. You'll find a series of studies suggesting that when the mother has used certain drugs when in labor, her child is - statistically speaking - more at risk than others to become drug addicted later on in life. It is probably not by chance that, in the US, the age of 'twilight sleep' was followed by the 'drug culture' generation. Furthermore we learnt recently that the complex cocktail of hormones released by laboring women is a cocktail of 'love hormones'. All pharmacological substitutes block the release of the natural hormones and don't have the same behavioral effects: they are not hormones of love. So the questions must be raised in terms of civilization.
(I don't want to get into the zone of having people who needed drugs for one reason or another in childbirth to feel guilty, get flamed, etc.)
This topic is so intriguing! I can't believe it's not at the forefront of our culture in the U.S. today. (Well, actually, I can
: )Any thoughts or input out there?
Here's the quote from the Mothering site by Michel Odent:
Since the 1970s we learnt that obstetric medications may also have long term side effects. Visit our data base www.birthworks.org/primalhealth and click, for example, on the key word 'drug addiction'. You'll find a series of studies suggesting that when the mother has used certain drugs when in labor, her child is - statistically speaking - more at risk than others to become drug addicted later on in life. It is probably not by chance that, in the US, the age of 'twilight sleep' was followed by the 'drug culture' generation. Furthermore we learnt recently that the complex cocktail of hormones released by laboring women is a cocktail of 'love hormones'. All pharmacological substitutes block the release of the natural hormones and don't have the same behavioral effects: they are not hormones of love. So the questions must be raised in terms of civilization.
