Phoenixpower -> RE: home birth in chains (3/21/2013 4:44:50 PM)
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I am only commenting on the home birth part, not about the rest of it... now...I do know that many homebirths go well...but....what if not? Are you ready to live with the consequences if it does not go "according to plan?" Now...I do not have children yet but as a kid I got to know a friend of my grandmum who had a home birth with her second child....and it went wrong....and the result of it was, that her boy had to live a heavily disabled life until he died aged 38... Now...his parents cared for him enormously and he only had to live in a care home in his last years cause both his parents died before him...but still...I am sure he would have preferred to be able to talk, to walk, to use his hands etc....cause he could not do anything himself... And of course, these were different times as some may say, but seriously, despite that being different times, "I" would not be willing to take that unneccessary risk... Cause quite frankly, anything can go wrong whilst giving birth, no matter how many successful births you have done before... And if anything goes wrong with the kid or your wife, YOU will have to live with it!!! Of course you can think "why that much worry, after all it went well the last two times"...well...it obviously did, but again, if it goes wrong the life of your kid and your wife is at risk....and it is up to you two to decide if it is really worth it to take that risk... I only know that if I would be a man, I would not want to be in a situation where my kid would ask me "why did mummy die during childbirth"...."well, kid....its cause mummy wanted to do a home birth because she wanted to be chained during your birth to show her submissiveness to me and then unfortunately there occured some problems and she received the appropriate help too late..." And if anything goes wrong with the kid during birth? Well...I worked many years with disabled people and can do it....but I also do know many parents who can not cope with their kid, if it happens to have a disability....would you be able to cope with it??? Even more so, when you would know, that this would likely not have happened, if the kid would just have been born in the hospital... Well...good luck to you three whatever you do....I do know that I am biased in that topic due to the friend of my granny...but I just think it is also important to consider that things can go terribly wrong, sometimes....that's just the beauty of it!
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