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I'm not sure if this chick is hardcore or an idiot
I'm being a bum today and have been watching TLC Baby Stories for the last couple of hours. Lady on there now is having her 4th child and wanted to do a home birth, unassisted by a midwife (aka, her and her husband only). She is not a nurse and read books for research. She went her entire pregnancy without an ultrasound, doctor visit, nothing.
She ends up having twins, both breeched. Everyone turned out fine but holy fvck. Talk about putting yourself in a really bad situation.
Oh, and she named one of the babies Christmas Hope...they were not born in December.
She ends up having twins, both breeched. Everyone turned out fine but holy fvck. Talk about putting yourself in a really bad situation.
Oh, and she named one of the babies Christmas Hope...they were not born in December.
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Re: I'm not sure if this chick is hardcore or an idiot
Katie- ygpm.
I don't see the logic behind putting your baby at risk when there is no need to. We have medical technology. Why risk it?
I don't think home births are idiotic, but I think she's an idiot. At least have a midwife with you!
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But Anna, she couldn't afford one remember!
House / Baby blog
That is just scary.
Maybe the babies were conceived on Christmas?
[QUOTE]I'm being a bum today and have been watching TLC Baby Stories for the last couple of hours. Lady on there now is having her 4th child and wanted to do a home birth, unassisted by a midwife (aka, her and her husband only). She is not a nurse and read books for research. She went her entire pregnancy without an ultrasound, doctor visit, nothing. She ends up having twins, both breeched. Everyone turned out fine but holy fvck. Talk about putting yourself in a really bad situation. <strong>Oh, and she named one of the babies Christmas Hope...they were not born in December.</strong>
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[QUOTE]I vote AW dumbass.She should have ditched the TV crew and, hell, the electricity, bed and fresh water too if she wanted to be really hardcore. Go shiit the little fuckers out in a field if you are really interested in going back to nature and DIY birthing. cut the cords with a stick and wipe your ass with some leaves and get back to work.
Posted by BecW2be[/QUOTE]
I love you Bec :)
ygpm back Jas
I'll probably try to arrange a doula, but right now I'm leaning hospital. If I did a home birth and something happened and the baby died I would never stop wondering if a hospital could have saved him/her.
House / Baby blog
[QUOTE]Excellent picture Jas :) But Anna, she couldn't afford one remember!
Posted by katiewhompus[/QUOTE]
Ah, one of *those* people; I can afford a kid but not a midwife.... I can feel my taxes rising as we speak.
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[QUOTE]KD- Can I ask, why did you choose a midwife? If I were to have a kid, I would want all the drugs available, twice.
Posted by jasmineh7777[/QUOTE]
Oh you still have everything available to you, they work out of the hospital. It was actually about cost at that point I was a single mother. But the regular doc still looks in on you.
And I was unable to have any drugs, so it didn't matter.
Jas, doulas coach you through your pregnancy, labor, and birth to help you tough out the pain of childbirth without meds and other medical interventions. Some of them are all "the less medical intervention, the better" like this nutbag, but there are a wide spectrum of them and many are fine with most modern technologies, they just want to prevent you from having an unnecessary c-sec or other complications.
House / Baby blog
I was reading an article in a magazine about birth and medical interventions and it was saying the doctors always rolled their eyes when a homebirth went awry and they ended up in the hospital all in a panic.
[QUOTE]I vote AW dumbass.She should have ditched the TV crew and, hell, the electricity, bed and fresh water too if she wanted to be really hardcore. Go shiit the little fuckers out in a field if you are really interested in going back to nature and DIY birthing. cut the cords with a stick and wipe your ass with some leaves and get back to work.
Posted by BecW2be[/QUOTE]
I love you oh so much.
However, I plan to take a different approach, the normal one in my eyes, get an ultrasound, check to see if baby is okay and deliver at hospital with medical professionals.
[QUOTE]Oh dear lord. <strong> People like this ruin homebirths for everyone else. </strong>
<p>Posted by goheels05[/QUOTE]</p><p> </p><p>I agree with this assessment!</p>
I definitely lean towards more holistic view of health and medicine, but not when it comes to birth. Yes women have been getting pregnant and having kids since the beginning of time but not in the quantities that we are having now. Plus you had a large community of women who knew what they were doing! It's not like first time mom's just popped them out in the middle of a field. There's very good evidence that hunter/gatherer communities had mid-wife type roles, or at the very least an elder who had assisted with births often.
House / Baby blog
I've seen her story but dont remember the details.
Having had a super complicated delivery I couldnt imagine going to alone but eh, whatever floats her boat
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