avoid discussing home birth with family or doctors or friends

17/4/2001 00:23	Ilana Shemesh, natural midwife	מאת:
avoid discussing home birth with family or doctors or friends		כותרת:
Dear Sharon and Sivan, Sivan is an exceptionally strong woman. I don't know you. However, I have been in the homebirth business about l3 years now and Ihave seen all too often the scenario of a lovely couple with great confidence who really want a home birth. Then they naively tell their doctor who then tells them that their baby could die at a home birth (like it can never happen in hospitals) and then their good friends tell them about all the women they know who had terrrible complications and if they had been at home then they would haave died or their babies brain-damaged (most complications caused by hospital environment and interventions). The couple is now filled with fear, and either cancels or we have to work together to take away the fears and bad energy that their well meaning family and friends have created. This is why I say it is better not to discuss your decision with anyone, unless they themselves are very open-mineded alternative thinkers, or have had a home birth themselves. After the birth, then it is fine to tell everyone, as there is not much they can do to rain on your party, except to say that you were very irresponsible and I have heard doctors say that they committed child abuse! Too late--the healthy baby is at the breast!!!... .		תוכן התגובה: