Seems like you can't swing a freshly born placenta without hitting another story on home birth these days. Take this recent one in the New York Times about the growing number of women who are planning home births around NYC.
The
article is especially notable to me for a couple of reasons: none of
the couples say they wanted a home birth for
spiritual/religious/back-to-nature reasons, or because hospitals won't
let them burn sage and snack on placenta in the L&D room.
Not
that I think those reasons are ridiculous (OK, I do), but because those
stereotypes have such a prominent place in home birth talk and assume
characteristics and beliefs about women who, like me, choose to give birth at home.
So I get a little defensive, then, when I read posts like this one from Jezebel's Tracie.
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