Had a baby last year, was your typical induction-failure to progress-EMCS story. However me and baby ok, I felt well looked after by staff. I did read about hypnobirthing etc and followed 'positive birth' groups on instagram and facebook, but I was very realistic about how birth could go and wasn't fixated on a particular plan. Look back on the birth of my baby positively, but don't think about it that much. It was just one day.
I haven't unfollowed all these groups (yet!) but I was reading some of the birth stories/articles that they were posting a few days ago and I felt really...well, irritated. This idea that you can have an 'empowering birth' that 'how you give birth is the start of how you mother' (if that's true, oh dear, I was off my face on drugs)...isn't this becoming a little...narcissistic? Posting photos of you breathing calmly in your birthing pool...'just gas and air!' comments etc... I mean, why did you get pregnant, to have a baby or to have a birth experience?!?
I mean look - obviously women should be well cared for and I am not saying we should go back to the 1950s where episiotomies were routinely given, women had little to no say etc...just that this whole social media/childbirth aspect feels very uncomfortable for me, and I worry will have a damaging impact on pregnant women approaching labour.
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Scoutingaround1789 · 24/04/2019 14:57
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