Comments on: “Childbirth Doesn’t Have To Be Barbaric…”

By: heidi

heidi — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:11:42 +0000

my last one when i told the doc that i could go any farther his only response was that i had no choice now, i shouldve thought of that 9 months ago.

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By: Maggi

Maggi — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:25:42 +0000

I’ve had two different friends hallucinate on Demerol for their births. Well, actually, I did too, but I had it for during transport because of a badly broken arm. I didn’t react to GA (surgery for broken arm) any way.

By: blessedwith4

blessedwith4 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:54:03 +0000

The only thing that should make giving birth barbaric is the woman digging deep within to find her inner strength to bring her sweet baby into this world. And maybe low-pitched sounds and her body’s position to help baby decend…
It is hard physically, mentally, emotionally… (I get a ‘backed-into-a-corner with only-one-way-out feeling, even months before my due date). But after months of doing whats best for my pre-born baby, i have a hard time giving him/her drugs for MY ‘benefit’ at birth.
The entire process is a beautiful miracle!!

By: blessedwith4

blessedwith4 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:32:30 +0000

After reading other’s stories, I realize how wonderfully blessed I have been through out my 4 birthing experiences! I have had 1 planned home birth-turned hospital because she came 5 weeks early, a wonderful 6 hour home delivery, a birth center (in hospital) water birth with a mid-wife, and another in the same birth center/midwife delivery where I was stuck a 9cm. for 4-5 hours because baby’s head wasn’t engaged. All were 100% natural and non-invasive. But Sheva, you are right on! When you start saying you cannot do it any longer, it IS almost over. After doing it, the natural high of feeling like the strongest, most capable woman in the world is AWESOME!! It isn’t easy, but we were designed by our creator to do just this. And the medical field (most) undermines women and their inner strength to do this!! There is an attitude that we should not want to have more children, we are all contributing to the ‘carbon foot-print’ crap, and that pregnancy is some kind of emergency waiting to happen. And the induction/drug-laden/unnecessary-ceasarians only adds to fear and trauma put on women about childbirth and labor. America is falling behind other countries in population, barely maintaining the 2.8 childbirth rate needed.
The doctors/midwives in my own experiences were so supportive and experienced, with large families themselves. I believe there is a time and place for interention, but women need to take control of their health/experience and find the info/support they need. If enough women would not employ these tyrant ‘doctors’ maybe we could rid ourselves of them!

By: Meg

Meg — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:12:48 +0000

Having had an induction (ending in cesarean) and an all-natural, drug-free HBAC (Home Birth After Cesarean), I can say that my suspicion the first time around, that labor wasn’t supposed to hurt the way it does with an induction, was TRUE. The natural, undrugged “Barbaric” beautiful birth of my 10 lb son at home, was far less painful, and not at all frightening, unlike the hellish and tortuous ordeal I went through with Pitocin induction, then epidural, then crash cesarean.

It’s a shame so many American women have no idea what labor and birth would be like if it were allowed to progress peacefully and naturally. Doctors ordering “Pit to Distress” (in other words, keep upping the dose of pitocin until it give the baby FETAL DISTRESS!) is what is barbaric. And the worst is, when they see their evil handiwork, women being subjected through the IV to a level and intensity of pain that is unnatural for their degree of dilation, they assume that childbirth itself is the culprit. Couldn’t be what they are doing to it.

By: Guggie Daly

Guggie Daly — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:59:43 +0000

Oh this happened to me with general anesthesia! That messed me up so bad….I had panic attacks and night terrors for more than a year after the experience. My recollection was of thinking a dark being was climbing into me and killing me. Then I thought I went under.

According to everyone else, I laughed and chatted with imaginary people and they had to up the dose to get me out.

By: heidi

heidi — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:05:13 +0000

i had an epidural with all 4 of my babies, only because i literally felt like i was being torn apart inside… i have a high pain threshold but with all four of them my contractions were long and strong with only a few hours of labor… after my water broke my contractions started going off the top of the charts almost immediately and would start new ones before the old ones had ended so i basically had continuous contractions for 3-8 hours (depending on which birth). with my third birth i actually broke the side rail of the bed because the pain was getting that bad after the first hour when i finally asked for the epi.

i did start each of my births with the plan to go without, but after an hour or two of that continuous off the charts pain i had to ask for one because i couldn’t go any farther. i really do wish i couldn’t had a natural birth but for some women that is the only way honestly.

By: heidi

heidi — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:55:31 +0000

sounds to me like it would be barbaric only because the doc is attempting to be barbaric… this according to the #2 definition….