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Apr 22, 2008 20:40

This is one of the reasons I love my birth professor so much - her choice of words. I'm studying/reviewing the information she posted online. Right now, it's the various stages of labor. During the second stage of labor (pushing) she actually wrote: "It feels like you're pushing your baby out of your butt." It amuses me ( Read more... )

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crossp April 23 2008, 02:53:12 UTC

Are there really upsides to home births? Other than vague stuff like "feeling less stressed"?

Unless your house is set up for emergency surgery... fuck it.

silver_wolf101 April 23 2008, 05:39:37 UTC

There are a crapton of upsides to home births. 1.) Baby has a chance to do the breast crawl and get a proper latch on the nipple ( ... )

crossp April 23 2008, 16:18:42 UTC

I imagine 3, 6, 7, and 8 would be accommodated by even a conservative hospital upon request. 12 is the only one that seems like an amazing reason to me.

Unlikely lord_of_entropy April 23 2008, 16:48:50 UTC

#3 Less drugs are possible at a hospital birth, but that does not mean that the default of the two is inaccurate. Striving to make hospital births better then they are standardised to be is a noble goal ( ... )

Stress promotes ill health lord_of_entropy April 23 2008, 16:21:04 UTC

The impact on stress on our health in general is so frequently dismissed that reminding people of the impact on general immune system performance is rarely amiss.

Also, given the intense emotional states that often follows labour, I think the potential emotional health impact should not be forgotten. Stressful locales are shockingly a poor place to deal with mood swings or the like.

The 50s Live lord_of_entropy April 23 2008, 16:15:43 UTC

The paradigm of our medical establishment not withstanding, a more medically factual question would be "Are there really upsides to default hospital births?"

Other then those who do suffer from emergency conditions (a host of which are discernible either from symptomatology or family history), hospitals are inferior birthing centers for the reasons already outlined below. This is not surprising, given that hospitals developed as locales for providing longterm care to the already ill & injured, not as places to prevent injury or promote gentle transition.

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