Midwife-Assisted Homebirth? Wussy.
Kelly Mills said:
“In any event, I don’t really care that much if someone wants to give birth without a doctor, as long as I don’t have to help. But as someone who imagined this natural birth and in retrospect wishes she got the epidural on arrival, I’m so not in the “beautiful, natural, just do that special breathing and find your woman-power” camp. I like doctors. I like midwives. I even like western medicine, especially when it can prevent lots of suffering and agony. And I don’t think the fact that my birthin’ crazy-insane hurt was in the least bit empowering. I was really grateful to the anesthesiologist after he gave me the epidural. Next time my wonderful doctor can chloroform me in the hospital like they used to do in the old days.”
She may have been “really grateful” but her child may have had issues with that choice.
I think the main reason a mother should not have an epidural is so that she can kick her doctor in the head if he tries to give her an episiotomy.
But hey, to each his own….right?
Jenny Hatch