Your Baby is Too Big to Birth!

Recently I have been coming across an abundance of “big baby” stories that lead to “c-section birth stories” but what gets me is why do women today believe fully that they cannot birth these babies, or let me better re-phrase that, why can women not birth these babies?
One reason is fear. These women are so frightened when they are told that their baby may (because we know the accuracy of ultrasound measurements) be over 10 pounds, or heck, even over 8 pounds. “LIKE OMG!!! My Vagina will NEVER be the same again like totally” which is nothing more than a cultural myth in most cases, yet we see it so prevalent in today’s society. What does it matter anyways? After having kids everything changes, your boobs go south, you get stretch marks in places you never knew that could even physically happen, and then you have that other little problem, personal time, you don’t have any anymore, 95% of your waking moments are devoted to your children and the other 5% is trying to shower, clean, cook, and do the things you would like to get done for your own self.

Another reason is these women are not being given a proper chance to birth these babies. In today’s Obstetric model of care which the vast majority of women are buying into because it is just the “norm” of our society, these doctors are scared of big babies. They do not want to let these women wait to go into labor on their own because they do not want the baby growing too big, which leads to the cascade of interventions. Induction, pitocin, rupture of membranes, epidural, cytotec, then we top it all off with the emergency cesarean for failure to progress or fetal distress when all the interventions caused that distress.
“OH MY GOD! Thank GOD we had a c-section to be able to SAVE your BABY!!!” Well if you never started FUCKING with the baby to begin with, then the baby would have been perfectly fine. You are not God, you are SIMPLY a Doctor.
The Obstetric Model of care also relies so heavily on ultrasound estimates of weight, which research has told are are notoriously inaccurate in the last trimester at estimating fetal size, but that research is being simply ignored by these providers. Why? Because it is convenient to them. They would rather do what is best for them and their schedule.
We see this with many different subjects including continuous fetal monitoring. All studies show no real benefit or better outcomes in births which continuous fetal monitoring is used, even ACOG has reported this, but the Doctors still continue to use it in the vast majority of their births.
But when a recommendation comes out that will benefit their own agenda’s like the VBAC guidelines that are enabling hospitals to adopt unethical VBAC bans, they jump on it.
Common bandwagon mentality that it is only good when it benefits us.

Lets flash back to 1969. May to be exact. When a 15 year old girl went into labor with her first baby. She of course was scared because heck, birth is scary right? She went through the normal 1969 process of the shaving, enema, then the episiotomy. After laboring like a trooper, this 5 foot 1 inch, 100 pound, 15 year old girl, gave birth to a 10 pound 6oz baby boy. No c-section, no threat of a c-section, no health problems, no fetal distress or shoulder dystocia, no damage to the baby or the mother. Perfectly healthy, and happy Mom and baby.
That woman was my mother who gave birth vaginally to all three of her children. Two of us being as petite as her. My sister the smallest of us all. 5’2 and 85 pounds soaking wet. Someone who shops in the kids section because even woman’s size 0 jeans fall off of her boney ass.
But she was able to birth two babies. One being 6lbs 2oz and the other being 7lbs 6oz. with no issue.

She was told she certainly would not be able to birth those babies, she was simply too small. With her first she turned into the freak show of the L&D floor when she popped my nephew out in a record 15 minutes and two pushes. She had nurses and residents coming in all day gaucking at her because they just didn’t believe what had happened!

Just goes to show what our bodies can do when they are LEFT ALONE!

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