Oow baby...

[iflie]

From I didn't know I was pregnant:

"Amazingly without any drugs D gives birth vaginally..."Myeah, human females have been giving birth for aprox. 100.000 years and suddenly it doesn't happen without drugs!? Though I have heard American programs claim similar things, how amazing it is that a woman would give birth without medical attention. (Maybe

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[thecaretaker]

My sisters gave birth to three of her four children at home. No drugs as far as I know. She wanted to try the waterbirth thing for the fourth but there were problems so she was rushed to hospital.

Luckily I've never seen that TV show you referred to. :p

[iflie]

You've never seen De Bevalling!? It was on for years and seemed unavoidable when zapping. Pretty informative and raw. But yeah maybe for some people it's better not to know, hehe

[thecaretaker]

Nope, zapped past it always... not my kind of show really.

And people in the past of course have never given birth without healthcare. how does she think her forefathers (or mothers in this case) gave birth?

Shouting and punching.. hmm.. I can give backrubs :p

[iflie]

I'm sure those doctors and in fact heaps of people in the US think the rest of the world lives in primitive mud huts and that most babies die if there isn't a doctor sticking you with needles while you give birth.

But they even take medication against the common cold, maybe they think that's lethal too because I've never heard people complain so much about colds. It's like they have a bad flu.

I don't think my punching would be very impressive and my swearing is more funny than impressive. But I'm sure I'd have valid arguments as to why the guy will never be allowed to lay a hand on me again and how it's all his fault...I'm good at that, hehe.

It's a good thing I'm trying to avoid the whole thing, the man would have to be seriously committed because I will blame him for every bout of nausea, missed sleep, pregnancy craving (and will send him out to get it) and whatever else will happen to me. And THEN there's the monstermom thing.

Neh, I'd prefer to be a somewhat nice childfree sub.

~Iflie

[pixietulip]

6 hours is nothing! For first babies it's usually 10 or more hours. Subsequent babies are quicker (my sisters second was like a bullet!) because you've already been stretched once, but the afterpains are worse

[iflie]

Yeah the recovery of a normal birth is a few days but with a c-section they slice through very sensitive tissues and muscles that will have to heal. Plus afterwards you can get pains from scar tissue. It really is for emergencies only.

LOL imagine carrying the placenta around with the baby. Yuck. There is always a bit of cord that gets left on and drops off after a few days but that's natural. It doesn't rot like the placenta might.

If I ever have a baby I think I would like to keep the cord to harvest the blood for the stemcells. In case it ever needs them.

Myeah hippies can be very unnatural, like when they go vegetarian.

~Iflie

[pixietulip]

Apparently they carried the placenta in a towel. Yuck. I imagine it would've been very awkward having when handing the baby over and breast feeding because if you didn't keep the placenta close enough the weight of it would pull on the baby's stomach.

The cord can rot a bit - my neice's went a bit smelly and manky before it dropped off. Depends on how much air gets to it and how dry it is kept (which can be abit hard when the baby is clothed all the time)

[iflie]

I guess it depends on how long the cord is. But hell those people were insane.

Maybe the cord started to smell because they got it wet while bathing, normally a baby would be far less clothed so the air would dry the cord enough for it not to be an issue as with all other mammals. But you can't keep a kid clean and warm without a bath and clothing. I think I would try dousing the thing with babypowder just in case some moisture got in. And any baby has to be free from diapers and clothes as much as possible, much better for their skin and any diaper rash.

Most newborns smell great though so it must not be that common that it rots.

~Iflie

[cassandra63]

I assume the commentator was a man, in which case he has no real idea of what it is like to give birth.

Equally, you could spend the pregnancy with the intent of having a natural delivery, then end up having a twenty five hour labour followed by a c-section, which is what happened to me, so I say be open minded. You can
never be sure what will happen.

[iflie]

The commentators were both males and female doctors but that doesn't mean they are well informed.

I only mentioned c-sections as the result of medical malpractice. It's still a valid medical practice for real emergencies.

But because I'm not going to give birth in the US I don;t have to worry about my doctor being more concerned with making his golf appointment than me and the baby.

~Iflie