When did natural birth become so taboo?

Seriously, please someone answer it for me?
I have seen so many posts flat out putting natural birth, promoting repeat c-sections for no medical reasons, blindly following OB/GYN’s suggestions for elective c-sections because of “big babies” and stuff like that, and whenever someone points out a fact, or a risk of any of these procedures, they gang up and swoop in like vultures going in for the kill. So defensive that people are actually taking facts and statistics and bringing them to the table.

I just don’t get the whole scared factor of a natural labor. How many women have done in for thousands of years? Magically epidurals are invented and no one has a natural birth because it just hurts that much?

Birth is so dramatized on TV and in society that first time mothers are petrified of actually birthing without interventions or in a birth center, or even at home. They think women who don’t have epidurals or run off to an OB/GYN are strange.

I just don’t grasp this fact. Birth is a natural process that our bodies are made to do. When you start throwing in epidurals, and inductions that is where the problems arise.

There is no reason for a 33% c-section rate in this country. No reason at all. It is these medical interventions that are causing problems, causing c-sections, and KILLING our women.

The United States loses MORE women during and around the time of child birth that the majority of industrialized nations in the world. That speaks in volumes.

But women will continue to go around being ignorant to the facts, and what really is best for mother and baby, and feed into the myth that child birth is torture, and that OB/GYN’s are god.

Just a side note, the whole child birth is painful and horrible did not even come about until the 1900′s when hospitals started to take over births. When early feminists believes that the pain of child birth was the punishment on women for the sins of Eve. And that is when they started knocking women out cold to give birth.

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http://hmmbilical.blogspot.com/2007/11/twilight-sleep.html

And those aren’t even bad pictures!

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By: mom2natnkatncj

I can proudly say that I birthed both of my daughters completely naturally. No epidural or anything. And gasp, I had two babies that were considered large. My oldest was 8 pounds 12 ounces and my middle was 8 pounds 15 ounces. I didn’t go into my oldests birth thinking I’d do it naturally. However, I progressed really quickly. My second one I told the doctor who delivered her I wanted to do it without pain medication. And I did it. So even in this day and age it can be done. I must say though that when I tell people of my birth stories with my girls I always mention that if I had longer labors I might have gone for an epidural. Sometimes it just helps you to relax so you can progress more. I am living proof though that it is most definitely possible to go completely without pain medication during child birth even if you have big babies . I would have done the same with the boy too if he weren’t breech. But you know I even asked the doctor to deliver him breech. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately in my case, they aren’t trained to do that anymore. I was willing to give it a try to avoid a c-section though that’s for sure .

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By: Leigh

You know what? When I was in labor with Lily, as soon as my doctor checked me, he said, “Yup, you’re in active labor.. just give me a shout when you want your epidural.” I told him I didn’t want one and he asked me why. I don’t like needles and I don’t want a catheter in my spine. I also don’t want the risk of a two wek post partum headache, like my cousin had. He continued to push the issue until I just said, “FINE.” I never ended up getting the epidural, although I did eventually break down and get some drugs to help me sleep, but he did comment, right before leaving after delivering Lily, that he hasn’t seen a 22 year old woman turn down an epidural in thirteen years (although a small percentage of older mothers do on a regular basis turn down drugs). That, to me, is just sad. Cave people didn’t have epidurals. I get it, labor sucks, but I think drugs should be treated as nuclear weapons. It’s great that we have them in the event that we need them, but why use them if you don’t have to?

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