Huff Po: Leroy Smith: Dad Delivers Baby With Help From Google

December 16, 2009Jenny Marie Hatch Leave a comment

Dads are fully capable of delivering their own babes!

“When Leroy Smith’s pregnant wife started going into labor, the desperate dad didn’t turn to the doctors, but to Google.

Unsure of what do when his wife, Emma Smith, began having contractions at their home, and fearing that the midwife wouldn’t arrive in time, the dad-to-be grabbed his Blackberry and Googled “how to deliver a baby.”

Leroy, a security guard, followed the step-by-step instructions he found on wikiHow, and successfully delivered his and his wife’s baby girl, Mahalia Merita Angela Smith.

The Sun has the story in the dad’s own words. Leroy reports,

“I wasn’t sure what I was going to do so I just looked up the instructions on the internet using my BlackBerry.

“I was very, very nervous. I never thought I’d actually have to do it.

“The BlackBerry told me that when I saw the head, I had to support it.

“And when the baby actually comes out, I had to place her on Emma’s chest, then covered them both with a blanket and make sure they were both comfortable and relaxed.”

Please note:

Those of us in the Unassisted Childbirth World do not consider the birth you just read about to be a Freebirth. This was an unplanned Emergency Childbirth that took place at home. And it was a good thing the Dad had his birth information from Google.

Had he tuned in to an Obstetric Web Site, he may have been told to pull out a pair of scissors or a knife and cut his wifes bottom to pieces to hurry the baby out so he could make some money with his fancy stitchery as he sewed her back up, and then he could rush the babe to a NICU where it would be certain to rack up gobs of money for the hospital with a bunch of needless tests while Mama gets sewed up and is not able to bond during the first important hour, thus assuring her of a nasty case of postpartum depression and difficulty breastfeeding.

Thank goodness for Google, where it appears common sense prevails…

Dr. Amy’s cackling about dead babes in Colorado

December 12, 2009Jenny Marie Hatch Leave a comment

This most recent post reminds me of the “statistically significant” death rate of various birth stories pulled from the Mothering Discussion Room Archive that Dr. Amy did a few weeks ago.

With the title: The horrifying death toll of homebirth in Colorado Amy begins the post by claiming that the various babes who have been lost during homebirth are statistically significant as compared to hospital born counterparts.

What she fails to mention is the fact that mothers who choose homebirth and have a baby die almost NEVER return to the hospital for a subsequent birth. We homebirthers know that sometimes babies die despite all efforts to make certain they will live. But that does not mean we will subject ourselves and our little ones to the various indignities and defilements of a profession gone mad.

The comment section tied to this post has some interesting insights, with a few analytical types questioning her statistics.

I wonder when and if Dr. Amy (who is so pro vaccine she may as well be a paid pharma whore for the drug companies) is going to talk about the “statistically significant” miscarriage rate of those mothers who have willingly accepted the h1n1 vaccine while pregnant?

She always has so much poo to fling at the homebirth community, dumping on us constantly for our choice to live free from medical slavery. What about those Moms who have been the victims of genocide as their children have been ripped from their wombs by a toxic cocktail of drugs and toxins that were designed to cause miscarriage and sterility?

What? No indignation? NO Rage? NO thoughtful point by point post to scream and yell about the dead babies who are being poisoned in our society right under our noses?

Shame on you Dr. Amy! Your defense of the indefensible is sickening and putrid to observe. Children are dying and being permanently harmed by this toxic brew of injectible chemicals and you as a health “expert” stand silently by while the death toll rises. How dare you question my choice as a woman to give birth free from the machinery and drugs… You love to talk about death and what will prevent dead babies, why not do a post on the many babes who have been murdered the past few weeks in America and around the world when Mothers rolled up their sleeves and took a shot of poison in the form of a “health promoting vaccine”?

Hypocrite!

Jenny Hatch