Spirit Led Birth: Susana Baig – Freebirth Trendy and Competitive or not

September 15, 2008Jenny Marie Hatch Leave a comment

Susana Baig has some choice thoughts about Freebirth being “Trendy”.
I wholeheartedly applaud and endorse her words:
Link to the Telegraph Article she is responding to.

I have given birth unassisted 4 times. I do not birth this way for bragging rights or some competition. I did it because my two midwife attended hospital births were terrifying, painful and humiliating.

During my hospital births I didn’t get an episiotomy, even though the instruments were all laid out. I didn’t need forceps even though I was stuck in bed with my feet in stirrups with no less than 4 people staring at my crotch. I didn’t need a cesarean even though I had a monitor strapped to me. I didn’t get an epidural even though I cried like a baby.

Yes, vaginal birth in the hospital is possible, but let me tell you it was hard to do! Though I was able to birth vaginally, I would not call them natural births. And frankly I felt like a victim, powerless to help myself.

During our 4 freebirths I didn’t get any vaginal checks and didn’t even birth in bed (I actually gave birth in a different position every time, standing, sitting, kneeling.)

And guess what… I didn’t cry like a baby nor feel helpless. I enjoyed it, felt in control of my own body, and felt spiritually connected. (How dare I!)

Following my hospital births, yet before my UC births, I gave birth at home once with a midwife. I didn’t cry during that birth either but the midwife pressured me during labor and needlessly insisted on breaking my water.

I don’t embrace uc because it’s “trendy.” It seems to me what’s trendy and bragged about are the epidural and scheduled c-sections.

I can’t tell you how many women I have offered to help achieve a natural birth and they have almost all responded,”I don’t want a natural birth. I just want my epidural!”

Guess what…. If you don’t want a UC, don’t have one! But I believe that having a natural, private, powerful yet painless birth is almost impossible in the hospital so I have chosen UC.

How about spending your time writing articles that encourage the medical establishment to bridge the divide and provide better communication and a safety net for homebirths. We shouldn’t have to be completely on our own if we want a uc or midwife assisted homebirth. I wouldn’t have minded having a doctor, midwife or hospital to communicate with in case of emergency. But as it is now a days, (in my state esp.) there is this great chasm.

I know many believe that homebirthers don’t deserve help in case of emergency. Problems are their own fault because of their audacity!

To me that just shows how competitive and proud hospital birthers are. Such thoughts also reveal the “controlling perfectionist instincts,” that doctors and midwives are exhibiting on behalf of their “work place.”

NRO: Kathryn Jean Lopez

September 15, 2008Jenny Marie Hatch Leave a comment

Lipstick and Towers

“…What worries me more about Barack Obama is not his use of hoary old sayings, but his judgment; he’s running for the position of commander-in-chief, after all.

In his acclaimed bestseller, Dreams from My Father, he wrote, “I know, I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago’s South Side, how narrow the path is for them between humiliation and untrammeled fury, how easily they slip into violence and despair. I know that the response of the powerful to this disorder—alternating as it does between a dull complacency and, when the disorder spills out of its proscribed confines, a steady, unthinking application of force, of longer prison sentences and more sophisticated military hardware—is inadequate to the task. I know that the hardening of lines, the embrace of fundamentalism and tribe, dooms us all.”

That worries me, and not because I am without compassion for hardship. There is humiliation and fury on Chicago’s South Side. And there is humiliation and fury among Muslims and Catholics alike in Pakistan. But Hamas’s hatred for the Jews in Israel is a specific and evil thing that does not need to be understood as much as it needs to be condemned and stopped. And the men who murdered 3,000 of us on September 11, 2001, hate those who live on Chicago’s South Side as much as they hate the wealthy folks who work on Wall Street.

Seven years after the attacks on my city and our country, no lipstick can gloss over the truth: There is a war on. And I’m not sure the Democratic party — the party that ostracized Joe Lieberman simply for daring to support our effort in Iraq — gets it.”

— Kathryn Jean Lopez is the editor of National Review Online.

I’m thinking Barracuda….

September 15, 2008Jenny Marie Hatch Leave a comment

Heart –

Pit bull or Barracuda?
Jenny Hatch

Doug Bremmer: Can you please put some sugar on this crap?

September 15, 2008Jenny Marie Hatch Leave a comment

Excellent Blog Post By Doug:
“I had some time I didn’t expect to have yesterday since my anticipated appearance on Fox’s Mike and Juliet Show to talk about the link between the acne medication Accutane and depression and suicide was canceled, so I thought I’d write about how my day was going so far. I guess someone told Fox that they are getting a lot of advertising dollars from the pharmaceutical industry, and what I had to say might not make some people happy.
At first they asked if I would like to go on the show and “debate” someone. When I didn’t seem too excited about that they said they would “get back to me” and then later left me a voice message saying that I wouldn’t be going on the show but that I would be “credited” for my work. So I checked out the clip on the internet, and low and behold Fox set up the story by starting out with a family’s complaints about Accutane causing their son to commit suicide, followed by an attractive dermatologist named Cheryl Karcher, MD, who sat there in her white coat and said “I’m soooo sorry for the Zimmers but there is no evidence that Accutane causes depression or suicide….”

….I have presented the evidence elsewhere that Accutane is associated with depression and suicide. So if people want, they can go read it themselves. I have never met anyone who wasn’t on the payroll for Roche who has read the evidence who doesn’t agree, and I have never met any dermatologist who could look me in the eye and tell me that she never had a patient become depressed or feel like they were in a haze while on Accutane.

So there you have it, folks. Out-FOXed again. That is how the media presents things to you. Nothing is ever “proven” and there are always two viewpoints that balance each other out.

So, the next time you turn on your tube to feed yourself, why don’t you send FOX an email asking “Can you put some sugar on that crap you’re feeding me?”

I guess we got it, sort of, with Dr. Karcher.”

Keep Yelling Doug….maybe some day someone at Fox and all of the Media will get it.
Jenny Hatch
PS I was also asked to be on that same talk show last year to discuss my experience with Post Partum Psychosis. We were not able to make it work schedule wise, but I was impressed with the producer who called me. She seemed nice and was really interested in the alternative therapies I have used for healing my emotional illness. I challenged her to get Dr. Breggin on the show. She had never heard of him. When I watched the episode I was supposed to be on, they had a promo for Post Partum Depression on the web listing, but the segment never appeared, so I guess they just dumped the story.

Sunday School Lessons #32 and #33

September 13, 2008Jenny Marie Hatch Leave a comment

The Worth of a soul is the lesson I taught last week, and the lesson I will teach tomorow is Love Thy Neighbor.
I used Jeffrey Hollands wonderful talk of Souls, Symbols, and Sacraments in my lesson last week. Here is the link.
QUOTES:

“It is peculiar to the theology of the Latter-day Saints that we regard the body as an essential part of the soul. Read your dictionaries, the lexicons, and encyclopedias, and you will find that nowhere [in Christianity], outside of the Church of Jesus Christ, is the solemn and eternal truth taught that the soul of man is the body and the spirit combined.”

[CR, October 1913, p. 117]

“So partly in answer to why such seriousness, we answer that one toying with the God-given–and satanically coveted–body of another, toys with the very soul of that individual, toys with the central purpose and product of life, “the very key” to life, as Elder Boyd K. Packer once called it. In trivializing the soul of another (please include the word body there), we trivialize the Atonement that saved that soul and guaranteed its continued existence. And when one toys with the Son of Righteousness, the Day Star himself, one toys with white heat and a flame hotter and holier than the noonday sun. You cannot do so and not be burned. You cannot with impunity “crucify Christ afresh” (see Hebrews 6:6)”.

Jenny Hatch