My only real question about this story is,

 

What is the definition of “Being Prepped for Childbirth”?

 

“Hermanstorfer, 33, was being prepped for childbirth at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs Thursday morning. Her 37-year-old husband was by her side when she began to feel sleepy and lay back in her bed.”

 

Was she being induced?

 

Did anyone give her an epidural?

 

Had she been suffering from Toxemia?

 

It seems to me the reporters are suffering from a lack of curiousity about what was happening to this mother and her baby as she was being “prepared”.

 

Nature has a variety of useful preparations that take place in mothers during the days leading up to the birth.  For my own births I had days and days of pre-labor contractions that softened the cervix and helped my uterus to prepare for the work of childbirth.  I also experienced many of the common pregnancy aches as my pelvis stretched and my ligaments softened up.

 

Yet this mother and her son Died!  This story is screaming bad reaction to the drugs she was being administered, and yet I have not found any information about that in the news.  I guess I am going to have to give her a call.

 

Jenny Hatch