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Posted By on 06 Dec 2007 01:48 PM
Hi everyone! I'm excited to have found this forum. I am 20 years old, and have not had any children, nor am I pregnant. I feel really lucky to have found this way of thinking before I got myself subjected to the system. I'm here because I love to learn, and I want to be prepared for the future. I started getting interested in birth 2 years ago when I got engaged. My 3 sisters all had OB managed type births, and it didn't sound fun. I was scared to death about the thought of trying to have children. So I looked it up. After 2 years of studying, I am now confident that when I decide to get pregnant I can do so normally and endure through labor. I am also studying to be a doula (I'm attending my first birth in January!).
As a side note, I'm interested in why the forum is called "normal birth" rather than "natural birth." I offfended one of my sisters saying I believed women were created to give birth "normally." My reasoning was that if it wasn't "normal," the worst it could be is "different." If I used "natural," that would imply if it weren't "natural," it would be "fake," or "artificial."
Anyways, I'm just happy to be here.
Kelsey
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