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AUSER on 12/8/2006 11:00:53 PM |
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Fascinating! I hope one of you is going to reply to Amy Tuteur's comment...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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