tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post1335959967915693513..comments2024-03-05T11:36:50.299-05:00Comments on Stand and Deliver: BBC interview about freebirthRixahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07908864785513937876noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post-7923552393437633582007-08-18T21:29:00.000-04:002007-08-18T21:29:00.000-04:00We live in the USA. After 3 hospital births in the...We live in the USA. After 3 hospital births in the early 80's of various medical intervention: csec, vbac with epidural, and natural in hospital in order, we stayed home. I had 2 more babies with midwives at home in the late 80's. After that, my husband and I went on to have 6 more children all Unassissted, or Freebirth: from 1993 to 2003. <BR/>All of the homebirth and freebirth were lovely experiences. The hospital ones were not so lovely. I would say being able to tune in to myself, my labor and my babies was #1 reason we gradually "cut out" all other influences. (persons and procedures/technologies)<BR/>The number of iatrogenic hospital birth complications in the USA is unexcusable.<BR/>I believe that every woman needs to birth where she feels "safe", however, to truly do so, every woman needs to be totally informed of every procedure, complication and risk factor. She cannot do that while in labor, she has to take the time during her pregnancy to read, read, read.musicmomof11https://www.blogger.com/profile/12561295327119115546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post-69174147276111462512007-08-17T13:03:00.000-04:002007-08-17T13:03:00.000-04:00Oh good, now I don't have to type it out. ;)Oh good, now I don't have to type it out. ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post-53341123693342418252007-08-17T08:40:00.000-04:002007-08-17T08:40:00.000-04:00What I like about the tone of the discussion, espe...What I like about the tone of the discussion, especially between Sue and Sarah, is that birth choices don't have to be an either/or thing. "If midwife-attended birth is good, then UC bad" or vice-versa. Promotion, discussion, and even passionate advocacy of a certain way of doing things doesn't mean that all other ways have no merit, or that they are wrong for all women. <BR/><BR/>So kudos to the BBC for discussing some of the important issues for laboring women (importance of privacy and of being left undisturbed, importance of knowing and communicating with ones caregivers on a more than superficial level, role of nutrition and hygiene in birth outcomes, and so on). <BR/><BR/>And imagine if the US government had promised to make a home birth available to all women by 2009! We are light-years away from that. Home birth midwives can't even legally practice their profession in a good proportion of our states, and sadly that shows no signs of changing. I went to our state capitol this spring to lobby for midwifery legislation that would recognize CPMs and was quite discouraged--although not surprised--at the level of resistance from legislators.Rixahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07908864785513937876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post-48001389427420907272007-08-17T02:04:00.000-04:002007-08-17T02:04:00.000-04:00I'm very glad to see they brought up that same "th...I'm very glad to see they brought up that same "third world" thing that the Grazia commenter did...thanks for posting this!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com