If I'd known then what I know now. . .
Jun. 17th, 2007 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I still don't know if I'd go the homebirth route, but I would do many things differently.
A trailer for a movie I plan to see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3WWNKurKjA
A trailer for a movie I plan to see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3WWNKurKjA
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Date: 2007-06-18 01:31 am (UTC)The fact is, humanity in all of history has never had it so good as we do in first world nations right now. We have the lowest infant, child, and maternal mortality rates ever, though as the link suggests, they could be lower. We have the luxury of choosing names for babies who aren't born, of bonding with them at twenty weeks gestation or earlier, and standing an excellent chance that that bump in the belly will someday go off to university, our pride and joy. We have the luxury of an abundant, overall safe food and water supply, to the point where anyone who can be proved to have died of contamination of either sparks a) a major news event, b) a lawsuit, and c) a criminal investigation.
America's second-highest infant mortality rate in the developed world is still about one-tenth the (estimated) infant mortality rate in major developed cities a century ago.
I believe in trying to make things better, in making informed choices, in helping others to make informed choices when they ask. I also believe in counting my blessings. Yes, I had two c-sections. Yes, it's entirely possible (though by no means certain) that they could have been avoided. Yes, I'm healthy, my babies are healthy, and I'm okay with what happened. I have far too good an understanding of worst case scenarios, not to be grateful that my births weren't among them.
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Date: 2007-06-18 04:18 pm (UTC)That's it, I'm not having babies.
I *KNEW* I shouldn't have followed that link!!!!