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Body:	<div class="NTForums_Quote">Posted By Archived User on 12/08/2006 11:00 PM<br>Fascinating! I hope one of you is going to reply to Amy Tuteur's comment... <BR> <BR>In the meantime, many women are so weary of this all that they chose to birth without assistance. For obvious reasons, these women don't want to go to a hospital, especially if they have had a prior c-section, whether there is a CNM or not, and they cannot afford a midwife, if one is even legal in her state. With the industrialization of birth (as someone called it in the blog) the art of midwifery is in danger. I think that even most CNM's in hospitals approach birth in a too medicalized way. <BR> <BR>More and more women are now educating themselves about birth. After having had 3 wonderful homebirth myself, this is also the route we followed. We could not afford to pay for my midwife out of pocket again, our insurance did not cover homebirth. I went to see a CNM in a hospital to see if this is what we should then do, but this was such a bad experience, so unreal, that I decided rather quickly that this was not for me. I felt treated as if I really could not know what was best for me because I was not 'the doctor'. Things I said were dismissed (I had been pregnant 5 times before for goodness sake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), my views on birth not respected. <BR> <BR>I educated myself even more, educated my husband, and felt comfortable, even called, doing this on my own. I was a solo birther anyway, liking to be left alone, private, so this was not surprising to me, my midwife nor my husband. My midwife supported us and taught us a few things and we called her afterwards for a baby well check. <BR> <BR>Eventhough I had had a great midwife with my other births, this one was the best of all (relaxed, peaceful and relatively painless) and I felt I had experienced birth in a way I hadn't before. Food for thought maybe... <BR> <BR>maria. By: maria</div><br><br>
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