tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-454432385331536006.post3956305305620096792..comments2024-01-30T12:13:22.632-05:00Comments on Don Mills Diva: All substance, no styleDon Mills Divahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733674458423525738noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-454432385331536006.post-18955636187044966212008-08-03T22:46:00.000-04:002008-08-03T22:46:00.000-04:00Like Laura, I read this post and felt like we have...Like Laura, I read this post and felt like we have a lot more in common than I realized. I've camped in Africa and have labored drug-free for 12 hours before being rushed into an emergency C-section. <BR/><BR/>Ethan wasn't descending into the birth canal due to be tethered by the umbilical cord, which was wrapped 3 times (and knotted) around his little neck. The OB told me many months later that we had angels in the delivery room that evening. <BR/><BR/>I love the brute honesty in all of your writing, but the comment on narcissism as it relates to this topic had me howling! I have LOTS of women friends who are all about the hypno-birthing and who say giving birth is not a medical procedure. To them I say, you got lucky and had an easy birth. End of story. If I'd tried to do it at home Ethan would not be with us today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-454432385331536006.post-77677406235240209422008-08-02T22:24:00.000-04:002008-08-02T22:24:00.000-04:00Lisa, we hired a midwife to assist us in our homeb...Lisa, <BR/>we hired a midwife to assist us in our homebirth with our second daughter. Let me just say...she didn't make it. You can read the post, "Babies, memories" in my side bar. And yes, it was narcissistic on my part, as well. I know that now. I nearly died during labor, along with her. <BR/>I've gone on, by the grace of God, to have two more children. But yes, birth is by no means simple and easy in the USA.<BR/>Blessings and love to you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-454432385331536006.post-17818470617508379472008-07-31T07:17:00.000-04:002008-07-31T07:17:00.000-04:00DMD - I'm so glad you got to a hospital! The outco...DMD - I'm so glad you got to a hospital! The outcome otherwise would probably have been very disastrous. Lots of women die around the world every year from a lack of obstetric care during pregnancy and during birth. It's sad, really. <BR/><BR/>I think that we of this generation simply tried to swing the other way from what our mothers/grandmothers had - such heavily medicalized births. None of us wanted to be "knocked out" only to wake up and find that we were too groggy to enjoy our new baby. I had an epidural with my daughter (because they thought she was going to have to be a C-section; my body wasn't doing what it was supposed to know how to do!) and with my son I had no drugs at all. I had both of them in the hospital, though, and it was okay. Like you said. It was just the first day of many days I'd have with them. <BR/><BR/>Peace - DRiverPoethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01846730934649303857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-454432385331536006.post-61529895171818298212008-01-30T10:03:00.000-05:002008-01-30T10:03:00.000-05:00What a beautiful post. I was lucky to have two ea...What a beautiful post. I was lucky to have two easy labors, but did not have easy pregnancies. With Goosey I went into full-blown labor at 33 weeks. Thank God for modern medicine - they were able to keep her "baking" so her lungs could continue to develop and she could be the healthy sweet baby she is. Inbetween the girls I had two miscarriages, so when I got pregnant with Lulu I had progesterone supposetories that I had to take daily for the first trimester. Again, not the fairy tale, but who cares when the ending turns out as perfectly as it did ;)Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17769967354682232429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-454432385331536006.post-86652015992448767532007-12-30T20:02:00.000-05:002007-12-30T20:02:00.000-05:00I am going to comment (looking through your archiv...I am going to comment (looking through your archives!) ;)<BR/><BR/>Any way, I was always planning on an epidural...I am a wimp...but I had NO idea I would end up having an emergency c-section with my first daughter in 2002. I lost so much blood I almost had to have a blood transfusion. With my second daughter I did the planned c-section per my OBGYN’s advice and it was so much easier. I wasn't in tremendous/freak-out kind of pain. I wasn’t up all night laboring or trying to push her out for almost three hours until I was about to pass out from exhaustion. I was able to nurse both of them, but in retrospect I realize now how hard being in labor and then having surgery was on my body. Birthin’ babies is serious business!BlondeMomBlog (Jamie)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11678207937709971411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-454432385331536006.post-22455552796553989272007-08-29T12:47:00.000-04:002007-08-29T12:47:00.000-04:00OMG - we are kindred spirits! I can totally relate...OMG - we are kindred spirits! I can totally relate to your post. My experiences are so similar to yours - from the natural birth plan, to long labour then c-section right to the camping in Africa!!!...and your words really hit home. I am currently coming to terms with Madigan being our last baby...and part of me has been wrestling with the fact that none of our births were the spiritual, emotional and non-mendical births that I craved and desired. It is difficult to come to terms with this fact - but like you said, it is but the first day of the rest of our lives together. THANK YOU.Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08122365458052947125noreply@blogger.com