Is there any limit to the narcissism and stupidity of these women?
1. Planning an unassisted childbirth (UC):
I believe that I can birth this baby unassisted, safely and happily. I have been trying to convince my DH, but he told me he will never be on board. Planning to birth while he sleeps or is at work. I’m sad that he can’t support me, but I know what this baby needs.
2. The baby is struggling to breathe and the mother is expressing colostrum into her mouth “just so she’d get a taste since we wouldn’t be able to breastfeed any time soon.” If the mother were struggling to breathe would she find it helpful for someone to squirt liquid into her mouth?
Her baby was transferred by helicopter to a NICU (without her) and this is what the mother is thinking:
On the way home from the birthing center, I kept saying, “I did it. I gave birth! Naturally!”
3. After an uncomplicated vaginal birth induced in the hospital at nearly 43 weeks:
… Although I had a mostly natural unmedicated vaginal birth with the most natural birth friendly doctor in the state, it still wasn’t the birth I had planned or wanted for my daughter. To this day, I feel guilty that Dinah didn’t get to choose her own birthday. I’m afraid I may have let her down by having her birth induced.
4. A homebirth midwife wails about the “horrors of midwifery licensing“:
… There are time limits on how long you can labor, or how long you can push, or on the size of your baby. If she ignores any of these rules and regulations, she is (again) subject to disciplinary action. But more importantly, if she ignores the rules (and many do)…then what happens to the “licensing equals safety” argument? How is she a “safe midwife” if there is blatant disregard for the rules that have been deemed to make birth “safe”?
You can’t make this stuff up!
