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In a message dated 2/15/2006 8:05:47 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
Even with absolutely no interventions (except=20
intermittant monitoring) some of these women are confrontational,scared to
death (which is usually the case), and more important completely unable to
relax and let their body do the job it has to do to give birth. For whatever the
reason(s), these women's labors just stop. I think that sometimes these
women have invested so much negative energy in worrying about what they don't
want (and how the hospital is going to ruin their birth experience), that they
have spent little time educating themselves about how they can help themselves
and what the actual physiological birth process is about.
Dear Friends:
What is relaxing about a hospital?
And the mothers that are scared and confrontational...........how are
they treated?
Most birth doesn't belong in a hospital, just as most death doesn't
belong in a hospital. When normal human events are put in a fishbowl of scrutiny,
they then become "low-risk" and subject to monitoring and judgement.
Just as with breastfeeding, mothers are scared. Fear is a dominant
cultural value in the US, fear runs our political and judicial systems. Isn't it
logical for women to be fearful when what the media shows of birth is dramatic
and scary and papers report awful stories about breastfeeding, linking it
with death and sick babies?
How can women trust themselves, when they are not trusted?
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com
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