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Crunchy People Have Bad Ideas |
All the Home Birth peeps say that you HAVE to watch the amazing documentary on home births. (I'm not pregnant of course, nor am I considering it in the near future. But I do have a lot of child-bearing aquaintances and this particular topic freaks me out an especial much so I was curious to see what all the buzz was about. Plus I might do the human baby, not dog baby thing someday.) It's called The Business of Being Born, and it is produced by Ricky Lake, so right away you know its going to be awesome. Blah, blah, blah, women are so stupid who go to hospitals, doctors don't know anything, hospitals are for sick people,women don't educate themselves on birth, hospitals are ruining the bonding experience by forcing drugs on mothers, midwifes are better, midwifes are so experty, home birth is the only smart way and if you don't do it at home you are putting your baby in danger of those greedy doctors who just want to slice you open for money. Blah, blah blah.
It made me so mad that I watched another one called Pregnant in America. Same thing. Doctors are greedy and clueless and don't care about anything but getting your kid out in time for their vacation. Midwifes at your house are the only safe and smart person way. Any other way will ruin your baby and give it ADHD.
Sure. Home birth is the best. Except if you are the main lady in documentary #1- if she had tried to give birth to her premature breech baby at home by squashing it out of her vag she would have broken it's neck and killed it. Plus had it made it out alive it would have died from being premature. She ended up having a c-section. Or the lady in documentary #2, who did give birth at home and ended up having to take her baby to the hospital by ambulance afterward, where the baby stayed for 7 days in the NICU. They put this in the documentary and are still trying to tell you that home birth is best! I guess if you are commited enough to your opinion on the matter to make a documentary then you are too commited to the idea to see the facts that are contrary to your opinion.
Another thing was about how much more cost effective it is to use a mid-wife instead of going to the hospital. Of course it is. Duh. Hospitals are full of expensive, life-saving equipment and trained professionals, all of which must be paid for. Midwifes come to your house, spray a little Pam down there and tell you to breathe. Which one sounds more costly? But here's an idea- if you can't afford to have a baby, don't have one!
Geez. If someone wants to have their baby in a bathtub, or make the placenta into a vest, or whatever other weird thing these crunchy people do, fine. No one cares. Get it out however you want. But do it in a hospital! And that is my feelings on home births.
It made me so mad that I watched another one called Pregnant in America. Same thing. Doctors are greedy and clueless and don't care about anything but getting your kid out in time for their vacation. Midwifes at your house are the only safe and smart person way. Any other way will ruin your baby and give it ADHD.
Sure. Home birth is the best. Except if you are the main lady in documentary #1- if she had tried to give birth to her premature breech baby at home by squashing it out of her vag she would have broken it's neck and killed it. Plus had it made it out alive it would have died from being premature. She ended up having a c-section. Or the lady in documentary #2, who did give birth at home and ended up having to take her baby to the hospital by ambulance afterward, where the baby stayed for 7 days in the NICU. They put this in the documentary and are still trying to tell you that home birth is best! I guess if you are commited enough to your opinion on the matter to make a documentary then you are too commited to the idea to see the facts that are contrary to your opinion.
Another thing was about how much more cost effective it is to use a mid-wife instead of going to the hospital. Of course it is. Duh. Hospitals are full of expensive, life-saving equipment and trained professionals, all of which must be paid for. Midwifes come to your house, spray a little Pam down there and tell you to breathe. Which one sounds more costly? But here's an idea- if you can't afford to have a baby, don't have one!
Geez. If someone wants to have their baby in a bathtub, or make the placenta into a vest, or whatever other weird thing these crunchy people do, fine. No one cares. Get it out however you want. But do it in a hospital! And that is my feelings on home births.
2 comments:
Only correction: It's not PAM, it's Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO).
Agreed 100%! And if their baby came out not breathing where would they go... oh wait, to the greedy doctors inside the evil hospital. I'm sure they know more about health of a newborn and it's mother than a team of doctors and nurses who went to school for 4-8 years. I could complain about this subject ALL day.
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