Wasn't sure where to post this but would sure like to have a discussion about it:
http://qz.com/400530/american-mothers-die-in-childbirth-at-twice-the-rate-they-did-in-2000/
I'm also reading a book by Mary Daly and apparently in the 1800s obstetrics was so dangerous that women would literally chose giving birth in a street unassisted than go to be tortured/killed at the hands of doctors. Are we going back to that? In situations like these (ie with such appalling systemic issues where more women are DYING) why would anyone with a normal, healthy pregnancy risk themselves and their baby by going to the hospital to give birth??? I made the mistake of thinking they'd help with my first...NEVER again. All they have is policies and protocols, made by insurance companies, and brutal heartless enforcers that think it's ok to do things to labouring women that we would never do to prisonners or anyone else.
It is so disgusting...i just want to barf.
My second was unassisted and was 100% perfect and FREE from violence. Had I only known with my first what i did with my second, going to the hospital is truly the biggest mistake i've made as a mother, i let my son down, and I should have known better. Healthy pregnancies do not belong in the hospital. Period.
http://qz.com/400530/american-mothers-die-in-childbirth-at-twice-the-rate-they-did-in-2000/
I'm also reading a book by Mary Daly and apparently in the 1800s obstetrics was so dangerous that women would literally chose giving birth in a street unassisted than go to be tortured/killed at the hands of doctors. Are we going back to that? In situations like these (ie with such appalling systemic issues where more women are DYING) why would anyone with a normal, healthy pregnancy risk themselves and their baby by going to the hospital to give birth??? I made the mistake of thinking they'd help with my first...NEVER again. All they have is policies and protocols, made by insurance companies, and brutal heartless enforcers that think it's ok to do things to labouring women that we would never do to prisonners or anyone else.
It is so disgusting...i just want to barf.
My second was unassisted and was 100% perfect and FREE from violence. Had I only known with my first what i did with my second, going to the hospital is truly the biggest mistake i've made as a mother, i let my son down, and I should have known better. Healthy pregnancies do not belong in the hospital. Period.