When I read stories about women who opt to give birth at home allllll by themselves
-- no help from a midwife or a doctor or a staff of nurses -- I think
to myself, "can you blame them?" I know, I know, a lot of you are
thinking these people are just trying to be heroes or adhere to some
kind of radical hippie code that shuns any relationship with
established authority. Or you think they're narcissistic idiots who put
their own childbirth dreams above the health and safety of an innocent
child. Homebirth moms get that kind of talk too.
But I think all that's wrong. Quite wrong.
Pregnant
women in the U.S. are in this totally weird position ...
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