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  • #496
    Public Rant/vent thread

    Who are these people who want an unassisted home birth? In the woods?
    Is this a new thing? What am I reading?!


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    Wife to Family Medicine attending, Mom to DS1 and DS2
    Professional Relocation Specialist &
    "The Official IMSN Enabler"

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    • #497
      Holy cow! NFW. I want the safety net of modern medicine should it all go sideways.
      Kris

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      • #498
        It's totally the new "thing"
        Wife to PGY4 & Mother of 3.

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        • #499
          Not that new, I hung out online with all the unassisted birthers when I was pregnant with DS. Nobody was literally birthing in the woods though.
          Alison

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          • #500
            Yeah I've heard about it for a few years but it seems to be an upward trend.

            I don't get it either.
            Married to a newly minted Pediatric Rad, momma to a sweet girl and a bunch of (mostly) cute boy monsters.



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            • #501
              My sister had her daughter in a birthing tub in her home two years ago. Labor was so quick the midwife didnt even get there until after the baby was born .

              Wife of a PGY-5
              Loving wife of neurosurgeon

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              • #502
                Originally posted by MarissaNicole View Post
                My sister had her daughter in a birthing tub in her home two years ago. Labor was so quick the midwife didnt even get there until after the baby was born .

                Wife of a PGY-5
                But she had a midwife she was seeing for care.
                The thing I read today is "no medical staff or assistance, whatsoever, intentionally" at home, in a cabin, in the woods...
                It's called a UHB. I had to look it up.
                I feel old!


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                • #503
                  It's totally a craze, and I think some of the recent stuff was spawned by a youtube video of a woman giving birth basically *in* the stream by her house. Holy giardia. People are so delusional if they think that all the bacteria that come with that situation are just "safe" and "natural" and "good for the immune system"... Yeah, until you get flesh-eating staph in your vag, lady.
                  Wife of PGY-4 (of 6), cat herder, and mom to a sassy-pants four-nager.

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                  • #504
                    That's horrifying! What if there is a complication? How would they even know if anything wasn't normal?

                    Wife of a PGY-5
                    Loving wife of neurosurgeon

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                    • #505
                      Originally posted by MarissaNicole View Post
                      That's horrifying! What if there is a complication? How would they even know if anything wasn't normal?
                      The premise is that you self-educate about the situations that require emergency care and put 911 on speed dial, you trust the theory that birth is a process that unfolds more smoothly when it's totally and completely not messed with (it's like Schroedinger's cat, if no birth professional is looking, things behave differently!), and ideally you really, truly wrap your head around the fact that if things go south it's on you. Most of the people I interacted with 8 years ago honestly would have accepted that if something terrible happened during the birth, it was meant to be and that it was their choice to accept that risk.

                      It's nothing I would ever, EVER choose (or could, given my husband's intimate knowledge of ALL the things that could go wrong but would have a good outcome in a hospital setting) but I don't necessarily think it's entirely insane. The stream though...yeecchhhh. O_o
                      Alison

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                      • #506
                        I personally think it's nuts. Having experienced firsthand shit going down the tubes, no way. In my grief group, there was a mom who lost one of her twins because she was SO HELLBENT on delivering at home. She fully accepted it was her fault, but how do you even live with that.

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                        • #507
                          Yes, it's one thing to accept risk when it is only YOUR life at risk. In some of these cases, it's the baby that dies with no good reason in modern society.
                          Angie
                          Gyn-Onc fellowship survivor - 10 years out of the training years; reluctant suburbanite
                          Mom to DS (18) and DD (15) (and many many pets)

                          "Where are we going - and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

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                          • #508
                            Yep, not as new as folks think, just more discussed. Here is another instance of the internet not being a good thing. Too many folks spreading false information. And yes, ladies do go to the woods. Some ladies stay at home and pretend not to know that the baby would be born on the bathroom floor. Some come in with their dead baby and say "it was meant to be" and very very sadly, many refuse care, labor for too long and then end up with a c-hyst all because they've been filled with lies about how birth "should be". Really it's very sad and disturbing.
                            Tara
                            Married 20 years to MD/PhD in year 3 of MFM fellowship. SAHM to five wonderful children (#6 due in August), a sweet GSD named Bella, a black lab named Toby, and 1 guinea pig.

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                            • #509
                              Yes, Tara. That's the side of the story I heard from my pediatrician father thirty years ago. It has been going on for ages. For our area, it was usually a "it's God's will" story with a mother that did absolutely no medical preparation despite living in the shadow of many medical centers.
                              Angie
                              Gyn-Onc fellowship survivor - 10 years out of the training years; reluctant suburbanite
                              Mom to DS (18) and DD (15) (and many many pets)

                              "Where are we going - and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

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                              • #510
                                It's going to be a reality TV series as well:

                                http://m.today.com/parents/new-reali...rsy-2D79767941

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