1) We are moving in 13 days.
2) I think that the best television shows of all time are: 1. Gilmore Girls, 2. Friday Night Lights, and 3. Freaks and Geeks, with an honorable mention going out to Everwood.
3) When people choose to birth in a hospital "just in case something goes wrong", that makes me wonder why we don't spend our entire lives in a hospital "just in case something goes wrong." (I think I will expand on this thought in a longer post someday. Please remind me to do so.)
4) We have made $1,380 selling all of our stuff so far. We still need to sell our bed.
5) This picture:
11 comments:
1. Boo
2. I have only seen #3 of these. I'll have to change that one of these days
3. I am so with you on this
4. Nice!
5. I LOVE this picture. Nice work.
#3 is possibly the most clever argument I have heard on the subject so far.
#4 is amazing and inspiring me to sell some stuff
#5 a stunning photo. keep on taking those pics--I love to see them.
best wishes with your move :)
That photo is awesome! I need some photography tips from you! Awesome colors and fabulous bokeh! My word verification is unhogra and I think that needs to be a real word. "Try and be a little unhogra and share your PB cookies!"
I had my son in the hospital, and I'm glad I did. He was born with a rare heart condition that needed immediate attention, and it may have otherwise gone unnoticed or undetected were we not in a hospital. I didn't go to the hospital "just in case something happened." But it happened as it was supposed to. That being said, if I have a baby again, I'd like to do it at a birthing center. I think it would be a beautiful and peaceful experience with people that pay close attention to your needs. But my hospital experience wasn't bad, save for the nurse that came to wake me in the middle of the night the day after my son was born, to take blood. I wanted to stab her in the eye with the needle when she missed getting a vein TWICE. When she went for a third try, I yelled at her and told her to get out of my room. LOL
I somewhat agree with you on disliking the reasoning of "just in case something goes wrong". I believe women should know their bodies and be more educated on natural birthing.
That being said, however, I had both my babies at the hospital. I had completely natural births with no meds, a doula, and very supportive OBGYN and nursing staff. I have epilepsy so a home birth wasn't really an option. And I hemorrhaged after both births so I'm glad that I was at the hospital to get the necessary meds I needed to contract my uterus and stop the blood loss.
I think it's interesting that you spend your entire pregnancy trying to do what's right for the baby, but then you decide to give birth at home because of the experience you want. Selfish, indeed.
You remind me of Maggie Gyllenhaal's character in "Away We Go." With your "unschooling" and "lotus birth" BS. That is not a compliment.
Hello Sarah,
Midwives are capable of handling hemorrhaging in a home birth setting. (As they did at mine, for example.) They are prepared for a wide variety of different outcomes during and after birth. Homebirth is not an unsafe option just because hemorrhaging happens (in case you were wondering).
Anonymous: I think it's interesting that somebody who disagrees so wholeheartedly with this entire blog would stick around to read so much, and then make more than one comment. Get a life! Go read some crap by Amy Tuteur, or something.
re the hospital being "Safer": I had serious postpartum hemorrhages with both of my kids; one was in the hospital and one was at home. The home birth BY FAR was the safer of the two births. With the first, despite being given several shots of pitocen along with cytotec and methergen, I hemorrhaged for 2 weeks and ultimately had to have surgery to make it stop; there were several times in those 2 weeks that I thought I was going to die. My hemoglobin dipped to half of what it should have been, and my daughter was nearly diagnosed with failure to thrive because of my ill health.
With the second one, who was born at home, the midwives gave me 2 shots of pitocin and a glass of shepherd's purse tea. The hemorrhage stopped very quickly after that. Plus, I felt respected as a human being because the home birth midwives respected my wishes to wait for the placenta to come out on its own (rather than yanking on the cord, as was done in the hospital). This baby gained weight like a champ and we are both a lot healthier than the first time around.
Ladies, that's good to know that a midwife could handle a hemorrhage. I'm done after 2 kids, but am curious if you think a midwife would do a home birth for an epileptic. I never looked into home birth because of my epilepsy. A doula friend recently mentioned she didn't think a midwife would take me. What if I had seized during labor? I know, I know... a big "what if" and I didn't with either one. I do believe in natural births, but still seem to be heavily influenced by medicine. I take a high dose of meds daily to keep my epilepsy in check. I cannot function daily and never would have been able to raise a family without them.
Sarah, you have a real, serious health condition that probably does constitute a reasonable cause to have "what if?" type questions. Your seizures are not within the range of "normal" for a pregnancy. Home birth midwives are trained to handle what is normal. Hemorrhage is something that, while fairly uncommon, is sort of a normal possibility, thus midwives are very well trained and prepared to handle it.
I don't know if there would be a home birth midwife out there who would accept you as a client, there very well might be, and you would have to ask around. However, I don't think anyone would argue that you have a good reason to plan on birthing in the hospital! I think what Allison and the other commenters are getting at are people who dismiss the idea of out-of-hospital birth without actually knowing what those "what if" situations could be. Because they are few, far between, and the midwives pretty much have a good answer for them. Its just sad that so many people are so fearful, because usually those types of fears are easily addressed.
I don't know if a midwife would be able to attend you at home because of your epilepsy; it depends on the midwife. Some midwives will attend 'higher risk' moms (like Type 1 diabetics, for example) if they have their condition under very careful control. Each woman and each midwife is different, and so is each pregnancy.
Just wanted to make sure you knew that midwives can handle a lot of variations in birth. PSAs are part of internets job.
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