Why I don't give a single damn about natural childbirth
by Tara Shafer posted in Pregnancy
To put it right out there, I'm not invested in natural childbirth, and have something of an uncomfortable relationship to childbirth generally.
There. I said it. As a mother of multiple children, I realize this seems like an odd statement. The deep investment that others have for vaginal childbirth, water birth, or whatever, is something I absolutely do respect -- on an intellectual level.
These things mean little or nothing to me on a visceral level.
All by c-section
I am awed by women?s bodies. At the ability to grow life. How wanted healthy babies emerge. How longed-for babies who aren't healthy can still be vessels of such love. How we create. Whether the babies emerge into this abundant, lonely, beautiful world vaginally or surgically, I care not even a jot. I only care that they are here. And that all is well. I remember once, when I was hugely pregnant with my first, a friend asked whether I had written out a birth plan. I had not. I did not even really know what she meant. I earnestly filled one out, but I remember being perplexed at the questions. Did I want music" An epidural" Sure and absolutely. I can?t remember a single thing I learned in Lamaze class.
My first son was born by c-section and I was delighted with his arrival. It never even occurred to me that I had missed out on a thing. When a woman at a mommy-and-me something or other class sympathetically suggested that I could "try again" next time, i...
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