I think the fear is just programming. We have been told that birth is a frightening, dangerous thing for so long we fear it like one might fear an airplane crash-- just because of the horror stories that are so very rare when it is actually quite safe.
The really scary thing in my opinion is how fostered this idea has become in the medical community. Makes sense, Obstetrics are the biggest money maker that hospitals have. Doctors themselves are afraid of birth (and the lawsuits if anything goes wrong.) They tell us about all the problems that women in third world countries have, glossing over the fact that it is their 4th baby in 3 years, they were malnourished and worked heavy labor for the entirety of their pregnancy and then were weak for the labor. Really? DUH! (by the way this is taken DIRECTLY from an article a doctor wrote on why hospitals are so important.)
No, I am not afraid of giving birth outside of a hospital. I am afraid of doctors, who only know to treat a woman and child as a statistic. I am afraid of people who will not listen to me and what my body is telling me needs to be done. I am afraid of a gratuitous Csec-- terrified when you realize that 1/3 of babies now are born that way. I am afraid of people who make decisions on their fear not faith. I am afraid of not having the priesthood exercised in my behalf and that of my children; prayer and faith are not quantifiable enough to be valid in the doctors eyes. I am afraid of doctors interventions to make things progress in the way that they think it should. I am afraid of being starved during labor because it is hospital policy. I am afraid of being forced onto my back when it is uncomfortable, and being denied the right to dance my baby into this earth, moving to a rhythm that only I can hear. I am afraid of the machines and monitors that distract not aid my baby that are all based in the fear that something might just go wrong with this unnatural birth. I am afraid of court orders and injunctions that the doctors now use to force people into their control who have the audacity to think for themselves. I am afraid of people who judge a person's competence to think and make decisions by the letters that follow their name. Fear of my home? Fear of my body? They cannot compare!
The really scary thing in my opinion is how fostered this idea has become in the medical community. Makes sense, Obstetrics are the biggest money maker that hospitals have. Doctors themselves are afraid of birth (and the lawsuits if anything goes wrong.) They tell us about all the problems that women in third world countries have, glossing over the fact that it is their 4th baby in 3 years, they were malnourished and worked heavy labor for the entirety of their pregnancy and then were weak for the labor. Really? DUH! (by the way this is taken DIRECTLY from an article a doctor wrote on why hospitals are so important.)
No, I am not afraid of giving birth outside of a hospital. I am afraid of doctors, who only know to treat a woman and child as a statistic. I am afraid of people who will not listen to me and what my body is telling me needs to be done. I am afraid of a gratuitous Csec-- terrified when you realize that 1/3 of babies now are born that way. I am afraid of people who make decisions on their fear not faith. I am afraid of not having the priesthood exercised in my behalf and that of my children; prayer and faith are not quantifiable enough to be valid in the doctors eyes. I am afraid of doctors interventions to make things progress in the way that they think it should. I am afraid of being starved during labor because it is hospital policy. I am afraid of being forced onto my back when it is uncomfortable, and being denied the right to dance my baby into this earth, moving to a rhythm that only I can hear. I am afraid of the machines and monitors that distract not aid my baby that are all based in the fear that something might just go wrong with this unnatural birth. I am afraid of court orders and injunctions that the doctors now use to force people into their control who have the audacity to think for themselves. I am afraid of people who judge a person's competence to think and make decisions by the letters that follow their name. Fear of my home? Fear of my body? They cannot compare!
posted by Ramona | 7:27 AM
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