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Originally Posted by ColoradoMama
I've heard numerous women say they had a "natural childbirth" when they were in fact flat on their backs with multiple interventions and drugs, but because the baby came out vaginally (forget the monitor stuck in the baby's head or the suction cup attached) the birth was "natural." Denial is SO strong.
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Looking at my siggy, I can definitely say I have heard women use that term natural to mean vaginal.
However, there are a lot of different variables in a birth...
we have completely unmedicated labors, augmented labors with pain medication, augmented labors without, assisted vaginal birth...etc.
I tend to think that it is more clear cut with the status of the penis.
The choice is either natural or circumcised. Or, intact or surgically altered.
Sometimes I actually use that term with some women I am on a group with. I am very pro-intact there, and once shared some natural man pictures of them....and one just flipped out. She described the type of man she liked...which basically came out to being hairless and surgically altered.
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