In a recent thread there was discussion on how you can totally have a 'natural empowered birth' in the hospital setting. I am interested in exploring this issue more, but wasn't sure where to do it so thought i would start here.
I have been to 3 hospital births and one home birth. At each of the hospital births, the human rights of the woman were violated, to different degrees. In general discussion, i have also chatted to friends about their births. Some of them were unhappy with their births, others were quite happy with what happened but in almost every case things were done to their bodies without their consent, or without being informed of the risks. If someone managed to get through their pregnancy, labour and birth without being dismissed, bullied or assaulted it seems like they have won the lottery.
There are things that happened in my hospital birth, that i was ok with at the time and didn't even realise were unnecessary and potential damaging to the mother-baby dyad until i birthed my baby at home. So it it that you can have a really good hospital birth, but it doesn't compare to a homebirth OR am i just completely jaded by my experiences, and my friends' experiences and expect too much?
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