I was reading some old childbirth books from the 1980′s. I was surprised to see that homebirth was addressed positively in each, and the extent to which it was addressed. More so, I was surprised to read the statistic that 1% of babies had been homebirthed at the beginning of the 1980′s. The more things…
While planning my first empowered homebirth 9 years ago I would hear quite often that I was brave. And I would smile and move the conversation along to another subject reasoning that the person I was speaking with was too ignorant of the truth to actually engage on the subject of birth. But until my…
The funniest thing just happened. I searched for “why choose hospital for childbirth”, and the only results that came up were for how to choose the hospital to birth in. Apparently the only reason is because we are sheep and don’t care to question the default mentality society has instilled in us? Surely there must…
This is the second of a two-part series. Read A mindless mindset about childbirth, Part 1. The replies I got indicated that things did not go over quite as I expected. I continued to clarify. You who are offended, I think you’re missing the point. I didn’t say, nor was I insinuating, that only the…
It turns out I opened a big can of worms last week with some people that I know and love. Near and dear relationships, both by blood and by heart, were threatened. I am usually a good girl and keep my mouth shut when people have the nerve to be excited about things that they…
