A recent article by Hadley Freeman in the Guardian nailed what's so wrong about the natural childbirth movement. Some of the best quotes:
"Few things drive the British press quite so demented as the thought of a pregnant woman with a choice... An individual! After all, we know that as soon as conception happens, a woman stops being her own person but is instead generic 'mum', and should be talked to accordingly."
"This reflects a worldwide increase [in C-sections], and is thought to be the result of 'a combination of doctors believing surgery is safer in potentially difficult births and women choosing not to undergo labour', neither of which sounds much like a terrible cause."
"It is quite something to watch how what is erroneously described as 'natural childbirth' – as though childbirth involving medical intervention is fake, or 'lesser' – has shifted ... to being yet another stick with which to accuse women of being insufficiently self-sacrificing as mothers."
"As anyone who has been to a certain kind of pre-natal 'support group' knows, for a woman to say – admit, even – that she will avail herself of all the pain relief and opt for a c-section is tantamount to admitting you plan to give your kids heroin to keep them quiet during EastEnders."
"The self-indulgent veneration in the media today of 'natural childbirth' is downright offensive in a world where women still die every day because they don’t have access to different childbirth options."
Here's the full article: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/29/obsession-natural-birth-judge-women-pregnant-medical?CMP=soc_567
"Few things drive the British press quite so demented as the thought of a pregnant woman with a choice... An individual! After all, we know that as soon as conception happens, a woman stops being her own person but is instead generic 'mum', and should be talked to accordingly."
"This reflects a worldwide increase [in C-sections], and is thought to be the result of 'a combination of doctors believing surgery is safer in potentially difficult births and women choosing not to undergo labour', neither of which sounds much like a terrible cause."
"It is quite something to watch how what is erroneously described as 'natural childbirth' – as though childbirth involving medical intervention is fake, or 'lesser' – has shifted ... to being yet another stick with which to accuse women of being insufficiently self-sacrificing as mothers."
"As anyone who has been to a certain kind of pre-natal 'support group' knows, for a woman to say – admit, even – that she will avail herself of all the pain relief and opt for a c-section is tantamount to admitting you plan to give your kids heroin to keep them quiet during EastEnders."
"The self-indulgent veneration in the media today of 'natural childbirth' is downright offensive in a world where women still die every day because they don’t have access to different childbirth options."
Here's the full article: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/29/obsession-natural-birth-judge-women-pregnant-medical?CMP=soc_567
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