الاثنين، 29 ديسمبر 2014

Homebirth or hospital birth? Choose what's right for you, but educate yourself first | Jessica Valenti

We don’t have to declare doctors monstrous in order to promote midwives. Both choices can and should be made as safe and acceptable as possible


Before I gave birth to my daughter, I had a very specific ideas for how her delivery would go. I wanted as “natural” a birth as possible, so I was seeing a midwife (under the supervision of an OBGYN), I planned to forgo pain medication, my husband and I toured a birth center, and I even eyed the birthing tub in the corner of the room.


A few days later, I was admitted to the hospital and I delivered Layla almost three months early via an emergency C-section. Not everything turns out like you plan – and, lest we forget, pregnancy is not without its dangers to both mother and baby.


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from Pregnancy | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/29/homebirth-or-hospital-birth-choose-whats-right-for-you-but-educate-yourself-first

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