Before I got pregnant I was like a lot of the population... You see the births and pregnancies on TV and movies, how quickly the baby pops out, the Mum is fine, everyone goes home, the routine check ups, ultrasounds with heartbeats and the woman screaming out for an epidural (just to name a few). However it is so much deeper than that. There's birth plans, informed consent (or lack of), different birthing options, Doctors who may not have your best interests at heart, co-ercion, fear mongering, unnecessary intervention (like this article on the dangers of ultrasound), early induction, inadequate training, lack of funding, lack of support for the new mother and overall a dim, dark and corrupt system.
Birth is one of the most natural things on the planet, alongside the deed in making a baby and of course death. So why is it treated like some disease? Women have been birthing babies forever and it was normal, natural and just something that happened. Now it's all "get this test done, that test, you can't go past your due date, c-section is needed, we don't do breech deliveries". It has become an over-medicalised and quite frankly in my opinion dangerous environment for women to be in.
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