tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-395886854277065427.post4158806338808606..comments2023-07-05T08:40:15.421-05:00Comments on Count It All Joy: Asher's Birth Story Part 1: Homebirthmamao3boyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958516295923156924noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-395886854277065427.post-84100356355652370502012-06-17T19:42:52.346-05:002012-06-17T19:42:52.346-05:00LOVE IT!!! :)
im totally for homebirth. :) im an h...LOVE IT!!! :)<br />im totally for homebirth. :) im an hour from a hospital now though, so in this house, im not sure i would go for that... i mean, i WANT to. but.Ericka Autiegirl https://www.blogger.com/profile/12992151994463989419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-395886854277065427.post-57999484572245432982012-03-04T09:41:35.306-06:002012-03-04T09:41:35.306-06:00Totally agree! In fact, I think you wrote it bett...Totally agree! In fact, I think you wrote it better than I did! :-)mamao3boyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05958516295923156924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-395886854277065427.post-9079214252575765062012-02-10T15:22:56.674-06:002012-02-10T15:22:56.674-06:00oh friend...this is so moving. sending so much lov...oh friend...this is so moving. sending so much love to you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-395886854277065427.post-58408822346864649862012-02-10T12:34:54.924-06:002012-02-10T12:34:54.924-06:00You go girl:) My midwife (I had her for both my ki...You go girl:) My midwife (I had her for both my kids and now we are dear friends) is a real pro home birth lady! She always calls me to tell me another success. BlessingsJulenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15844571486978100976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-395886854277065427.post-56750529891811263772012-02-10T10:58:17.004-06:002012-02-10T10:58:17.004-06:00Congratulations!!!!!! Absolutely Awesome and Lovel...Congratulations!!!!!! Absolutely Awesome and Lovely!!! <br /><br />And, you are so absolutely right. Here I begin my rant and rave. Or, ode to natural childbirth. So, be fore warned and stop reading now. :)<br /><br />Home birth is as safe as any medical setting for healthy pregnancies. Safer in most situations because of the thought, planning and personal commitment of the woman and the father--but the research tempers it to 'safely' saying 'as safe'. <br /><br />Current science-based information provides overwhelming evidence of the benefits to moms, babies and families from labors in which women respond to their bodies' cues and are allowed to work freely with their labor. Science-based information also conclusively shows that the common routine medical interventions (used on the majority of women that enter most hospitals and many birth centers) is actually harmful to women and babies by increasing the risk of complications and injuries. The trained surgeon then is needed to 'save' the woman and baby with even more invasive and risky interventions.<br /><br />My biggest concern, however, is how our current medical model is depriving women from even hearing about the incredible, life-enhancing, empowering experience of giving birth that is designed to create a woman who is overwhelmed with an incomparable joy, an unshakeable confidence in her own capability to mother this new child and a birth memory that will go with her through the rest of her life!<br /><br />Fathers and families also lose out. In a naturally unfolding labor the father, and often siblings and extended family become intimately part of the process and the birth experience becomes theirs as well. Which means that the family is even more intimately attached physically and emotionally to the new mom and baby through the shared process. Which naturally creates a supportive and caring environment for and between the new parents and baby.<br /> <br />Just the apologetic explanation that comes out of nearly every woman's mouth who was mislead into giving her labor and birth over to the medical approach, "I HAD to have an epidural," is enough evidence of how inadequate, incompetent, indecisive, ineffectual, inept, inferior, etc., a woman is made to feel about her body, her ability to cope with labor and, whether we admit it or not, her adequacy and capability as a person and a parent. PLUS so many women sit silently when birth stories are being told by others because they do not have one--a birth story, they did not experience giving birth, they have vague hazy memories of their children being born. In fact, because the production of endorphins and hormones intended to assist a woman in coping with and recovering from labor has been cancelled by pain suppressing medication and surgery, many women are in more discomfort and pain after delivery than before or during. My first realization years ago of how profound this result is was when a group of students nurses described the new moms they observed as crabby. Crabby instead of reveling in the wonderful physical relief from labor and pregnancy and riding on the crest of the most amazing emotional euphoria in human experience!<br /><br />The greatest act and experience of being a woman is lost! No wonder so many women are compelled to discount, disapprove and deny the credibility of the woman who dares to assert herself, challenge the status quo and trust her body, herself and the miraculous process of labor and birth and audaciously choose her own way to work through her labor. Then, have the nerve to be animated and thrilled by the resulting awe, wonder, joy and power of her achievement. This is an experience that lasts forever in cyrstal clear memory.Does It Even Matter?https://www.blogger.com/profile/07778449733118129929noreply@blogger.com