Freebirthing...

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I just watched a tv program on the Discovery Health Channel. It was about this thing called "Freebirthing". Apparantly, women across the globe are choosing to have their babies at home without any kind of medical assistance whatsoever. No doctor, no midwife, nothing. No medical training. I personally don't think that this is a very good idea. I am a mother of 4. All 4 pregnancies were completely normal. The first three, I could very well have had at home with no help. My 3rd actually almost was born at home because she was born in an hour, and we live 4 minutes away from the hospital. But the 4th baby was a different story. For one thing, he decided to come a month early for no reason whatsoever. I didn't even know that I was in labor, but didn't feel quite "right". When I got to the hospital, they told me that I was indeed in labor and that they could not stop it because I was fully dilated. But there was one problem. They couldn't feel my son. He was actually laying sideways with his head literally stuck in my ribs. They had to perform an emergency c-section. I had to have a partial hysterectomy due to the fact that they had to cut me so bad and I would not stop bleeding. I lost over half of the blood in my body. They had to crack my ribs just to get him unstuck. They saved our lives. If I had been like these women, we both would have died. Are they not thinking about that? One of the women on the show actually said that she refuses to think about the worst-case scenario. Well, she needs to. She needs to realize that even though childbirth is a wonderful and natural thing, it is very dangerous for both mother and baby. I think that there should at least be a licensed an experienced midwife present. I'm sure that there are people out there who will disagree with me, and that is ok. We all have our opinions. I think these women are not exactly crazy, but they need to think more about what they are doing. They are putting their children at risk for their own personal selfish reasons. You can always have medical personnel present without having them interfere until it becomes necessary. Why do they think that so many women and babies once died during childbirth? And they still do. Have they forgotten about this due to the fact that it has become so much safer for women who seek medical attention? I don't know. But I want to know what you think.