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Childbirth is not _easy_, but it's certainly a normal part of life, and treating it like a sickness, requiring hospitalization, is perverse. We had the last 4
by cpr 17y ago
Childbirth is not _easy_, but it's certainly a normal part of life, and treating it like a sickness, requiring hospitalization, is perverse.
We had the last 4 of our 8 at home, with, yes, one close call, but with a competent midwife, that's par for the course.
- philwelch 17y agoChildbirth isn't done in hospitals because it's a sickness, it's done in hospitals in case an emergency happens. I couldn't have been born at home--my mother would have to have been whisked away to a hospital for a c-section anyway. The fact that she was already in the hospital and attended to by an obstetrician made that process considerably safer and more reliable.