I’m first time pregnant, 18 weeks, and the whole idea of giving birth is starting to become more real.
There’s lots of things I don’t understand.
In my mind, it is a medical procedure - like having a major operation - and I was prepared for being surrounded by doctors and nurses and all the specialist equipment money can buy. Painkillers available as needed. For me this is a reassuring picture.
My local labour unit looks like a spa - it’s all ambient coloured lights, even actual fake candles?? The rooms are like hotel suites and they are always posting things about the power of your body, and how women know more than medical practitioners about what their body needs.
Come again? This is in complete contradiction to everything I have known and been told about medical care up until this point.
I guess I don’t understand - what is the problem about having a hospital birth or an epidural or frankly anything else that might make me feel safe...?
(This is a genuine question I am quite open to changing my mind but I feel like I am missing something)
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What’s wrong with a hospital birth?
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KO2018 · 16/10/2020 14:49
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