to think Mila Kunis planning to have a natural birth is not newsworthy?

[brittanyfurlan]

I really like Mila Kunis, she seems like a nice and down to earth person.

It's the Daily Mail I'm taking issue with. Why is a celebrity choosing to have a natural birth worth reporting on?

Are we suppose to be impressed that even celebrities opt to have natural births?

[BeyondRepair]

I am only going on my experience of some MW I have met here, some are wonderful and normal and balanced but some insist on natural birth no matter what....

[mum2jakie]

Who is she? I'd imagine the piece is not remotely newsworthy because she isn't even famous imo

[ExcuseTypos]

I was going to have a natural birth. I ended up with pethadine, followed by an epidural followed by an EMCS.

Just saying.

[BeyondRepair]

For a lot of Americans the idea of a Midwife is really rather hippy / dippy and their concept of a 'natural birth' is different to ours

and ther is noting wrong with that\

[Alisvolatpropiis]

chunder

If you're going to address me, at least get my username vaguely right

I think you misunderstood the tone of my previous by the way.

She doesn't have to qualify her opinion at all. It's her opinion. Why does Mila Kunis, an actress, saying x is the right way to do things such a bother to you? I find that quite odd. She isn't a doctor or a midwife espousing this opinion.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

itsfab

I think having a midwife is unusual in America, though entirely run of the mill in the UK.

[Mrsjayy]

you know she might get to having her baby and scream for every drug going she has never had a baby why is this bothering you so much chunder No i am not going to have an epidural I want the full experience is what she is really saying, I really dont care how women push their babies out or how they get out for that matter women are free to chose which pain relief or not they want, she isnt trying to make anybody feel inferior

[Itsfab]

Saying she wants a natural birth - normal. Lots of people say that.

Saying she plans to use a midwife - weird. Most people have too.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

chunder

Does everything have to qualified by saying "for me"?

She didn't say "do it right, not like all the other women doing it wrong" either, did she.

[Mrsjayy]

what janey said really

[janey68]

Oh and of course no one ever gets misquoted in the media do they?!
FFS.

She most likely said something along the lines of ..'this is what I would like....' This is what feels right for me...' Etc
And why the hell shouldn't she?

Giving birth naturally with just a midwife and DH, no highly medicalised procedures, was right for me and anyone who has a problem with that can bugger off!
And I suppose the mila thing is newsworthy in that her view is fairly unusual in the context of U.S births which are usually treated as a medical procedure to be managed by doctors, anaesthetists and surgeons.

[Mrsjayy]

celeb news innit we are all supposed to be waiting with bated breath to see how X or Y is going to plop a baby out, I love MIla Kunis but all i hear is meg griffin in whatever she is in

[stopgap]

I think it's because it is quite unusual over here. I'm an ex-pat and have given birth twice at a hospital with a birthing centre, and hence used a midwife, and I also didn't have an epidural. I seriously only know one other friend in the US who gave birth in this way.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

chunderella

She can think it is the right way for her. How on earth does that make her fucking vile.

Projecting a bit?

[OiYou]

Because images of moving your intestines to one side to make an incision in your uterus and lift your baby out are just so alluring? FFS, getting a baby out into the world isn't supposed to produce sexy images!




shucks, and I was hoping to sell the videos of my giant vagina birth to playboy

[UncleT]

Pregnant woman to give birth? Crikey, stop the presses!

[TheDoctrineOfSnatch]

"A hugely stretched vagina isn't the image you want people to associate you with"

Because images of moving your intestines to one side to make an incision in your uterus and lift your baby out are just so alluring?

FFS, getting a baby out into the world isn't supposed to produce sexy images!

[Cocolepew]

I think her and Aston are sweet