When did natural birth become such a turn off?
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You're not crazy. Most of it is that women are very out of touch with their bodies and very misinformed. My sister-in-law was asked by her doctor at 7 months pregnant if she planned on having an epidural. She asked what the advantages and disadvantages were. The doctor said "pain or no pain". No mention of any of the side effects or possible problems. Of course she had an epidural. She figured there was a little more to it than her doctors said once she had to sign the waiver in the hospital, but sitll had the epidural. People just don't know how risky the interventions are.
I loved my natural childbirth and am planning another. Sometimes people ask me "Are you going to try to go natural again?" and I think "What do you mean try? I'm going to do it." People who say "Oh, I couldn't have done it without the epidural." I just think "What would you have done, died? What if you had lived a hundred years ago?" Yes it's very intense but anyone can do it.
You're not crazy- they are.
August 30, 1978 at 1321 hours Pacific Time
when did pregnancy start being treated like a disease instead of a gift? oh yeah.. the 70's.
I'm sure if you ever attempted natural child birth you would understand that it probably feels like someone's going up your vag w/ a pair of pliers and pulling as hard as they can in all directions...no graphic imagery intended...
pain!! the length of labor and people well women's pain tolerance has gone way down in past years since our grandparents did it completely without meds. Your not crazy, having no meds really does make the baby more alert and able to be feed quicker, breast feed. My girlfriend went in and was in labor to quick to get pain meds and her daughter was moving around and active almost as soon as she was born. Also alot of woman do not take the time to go to natural child birth classes or read anything about it of course with our busy schedules it can be darn near impossible to do.
Natural birth became such a turn off for many people when all that is fake, shallow and shockingly unprofound became shorthand for 'modern life.' Personally I think it's very, very sad that reality is so abhorrent to so many people. That said, I'm not agianst medicated births or even elective cesarians - a mother's health, mental and physical, is also of utmost importance to the health of a child. The ghastly 'plastic perfection' approach to modern life is mind-numbing, which is exactly why so many people love it - it helps us not to feel.
I totally agree with you!! Epidurals and Cesarean Sections are risky stuff when it comes down to it.
If you have a anesthesiologist in training and you wiggle or he/she becomes real nervous while administering the epidural they could paralyze you. Spinal fluid could begin leaking and that is serious.
C-Sections can kill you if they don't catch a blood clot in time. Why would anyone opt to have one, you are not allowed to pick up your child after wards, you must have someone there to hand the baby to you.
I had both of my children naturally. It hurt bad but it wasn't as bad as people always made it seem. If I have another I will do it the same way!
Doctors would rather perform a C-Section and have their patients get Epidurals.
--they make more money off of a C-Section than a Vaginal Delivery, and they can get it over with quicker that way and move on to the next patient. Or, go back to bed if they were called in the middle of the night.
--Epidurals keep the patient from whinning and screaming because it hurts.
In my opinion, with all of the teenagers sleeping around getting pregnant at 14/15 years old, they should not allow them to have Epidurals at all. And only do C-Sections in the event of an Emergency! If they want to be promiscuous, then let them experience what having a baby is really like! Then they can go back and tell all of their sexually active friends how awful the pain was and maybe little girls will become afraid of getting pregnant at such a young age.
Require them to be only voluntary for adults 21 and over.
I did vaginal and I had very little medication, there really wasn't any time for me. As for c-sections, after having the vaginal, I can see why women want it. However, I think they should just suck it up and deal unless medically necessary. It takes longer to heal, some women take up to 6 weeks to heal after a c-section. I was taking my son out with me before he was even 2 weeks old. If I have another child I might try for an epidural. The reason I wasn't actually going to even try for an epidural the first time through is because they do internal fetal monitoring and I didn't like the idea of a node being screwed into my son's scalp. I had a very low grade drug, Fentanol, and it really only worked for about 15 minutes, if that. I was blessed with a great labor nurse who helped me focus and I had taken a prenatal class also and that helped. I don't think a lot of women are aware of the options that could help them get through child birth naturally and that is part of the problem.
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