Today I was asked what my birth choice would be, and I think the response really surprised my friends.
My first choice is to have a completely natural unmedicated home birth, with zero intervention. If I do not get this, I will have a caesarian. No middle ground for me – no dripping, inducing, medicating, cutting, salad server-ing me thank you very much!
I think I am so vocal about natural birth that people seem to assume that as long as the baby comes out of my vagina, I would be happy. But it’s not that way at all. Most of the horror or “birth rape” stories that I have heard have been about vaginal births gone wrong… gone wrong because they have been augmented, strapped to a bed with a baby monitor, baby has gone into distress and they have either been cut and and forcepted or the baby was taken out the “sun-roof”. I think people do not understand that interventions themselves are more emotionally damaging than a scheduled caesarian at 38 weeks.
So it’s all or nothing for me.
2 comments:
i didn't read the thread, but yes, that answer surprised me. LOL!
Not that there's anything wrong with a cs, I had 2 of them, and I wouldn't have had it any other way
I really enjoyed reading your blog, and look forward to keeping up to date with it!
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