Revisiting Birthing in America

I agree with this article. I can't wait for a birthing revolution. I dilivered my first in a Hospital. I did not know my rights, and I fell into the hospital routeen. It was a horrible experience! So bad that with my second child fear kept me from going to the hospital, and I dilivered at home unnasisted. My third I had a wonderful Midwife attended home birth. I am now pregnant with my fourth and look forward to birthing at home! I think that our society places so much fear into women about the birth experience. They go to the hospital with a false sence of saftey, and end up missing out on one of the most incredible experiences of their lives.

I really enjoyed your story. I am now expecting my third child. My first I pretty much knew nothing. I had an ob, was induced, had an epidural that did more harm than help, and ended with an emergency cesarean. It was the scariest thing that ever happened to me. I had no idea that everything my doctor suggested raised my risk for cesarean. Not to mention my fear was only holding the babe in. My second child was also a hospital delivery but with a midwife. This was a completely different experience. I was so fortunate to have a very quick delivery so the hospitals standards did not have time to effect us. The quick labor and the short stay was just long enough for me to get a staph infection. I had to have surgery when my daughter was a month old. Thank God she was unaffected and I am fine. Now, with my third child, I want to deliver at home. I will be using the same midwives, they were wonderful! I only wish I knew all this the first time!

Raakhi, you are 100% right in your analysis and conclusions regarding hospital vs. home birth in America, and the auras and energies surrounding each one. I have delivered all three of my babies at home, but because of postpartum hemmorhage with the last delivery, I was rushed to a hospital to receive a blood transfusion and postpartum care. Although my experience was all in all better than many women's that I have heard, I was still disgusted by the lack of attention to my personal opinions and requests, and the ER doctor on duty actually had the gall to say, while standing at the foot of my bed immediately after I had been admitted, "I don't have time for this." (Meaning me.) The general atmosphere in the hospital was cold, rude, uncaring, and machinated, as opposed to the positive, calm, intimate atmosphere at home. Every mother I know has horror stories of the treatment she received while giving birth to a new life in a hospital. There is, without question, a need for change.