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I find it disturbing that the proposed "Pregnancy & Birth" section in On Demand Home & Life tab is basically filled with the following:
A mere 5 minute segment on breastfeeding
10-12 minutes of scary birth stories ranging from 84lb baby, having your first baby at 57, and expecting 6 babies. All the summaries conclude "complications arise".
The supposed Natural Childbirth, still mentions, verbatim..."a patient wants to deliver naturally but has to take medication for complications."
Why is this troubling, especially the natural childbirth segment? Because a lot of the interventions (codeword for labor drugs) such as Pitocin, Cytotec, etc (which increase contractions, but reduce oxygen to the fetus and also increases chance of uterine rupture [doubled for women who have already had a c-section] and pain involved in labor), and then an epidural to reduce said pain, which reduces the contractions, only to be on the first initial drugs to begin with. This can cause fetal distress and thus an "emergency" (I put this in quotes because it wouldn't have been an emergency to begin with) C-section is called for. So these "medications for complications", honestly, is because people don't like how long it will take for childbirth. To surgeons, that is a "complication". And yes, obstetricians are in fact surgeons.
A mere 5 minute segment on breastfeeding
10-12 minutes of scary birth stories ranging from 84lb baby, having your first baby at 57, and expecting 6 babies. All the summaries conclude "complications arise".
The supposed Natural Childbirth, still mentions, verbatim..."a patient wants to deliver naturally but has to take medication for complications."
Why is this troubling, especially the natural childbirth segment? Because a lot of the interventions (codeword for labor drugs) such as Pitocin, Cytotec, etc (which increase contractions, but reduce oxygen to the fetus and also increases chance of uterine rupture [doubled for women who have already had a c-section] and pain involved in labor), and then an epidural to reduce said pain, which reduces the contractions, only to be on the first initial drugs to begin with. This can cause fetal distress and thus an "emergency" (I put this in quotes because it wouldn't have been an emergency to begin with) C-section is called for. So these "medications for complications", honestly, is because people don't like how long it will take for childbirth. To surgeons, that is a "complication". And yes, obstetricians are in fact surgeons.