Sometimes when I am reading the various posts over at Dr. Amy’s Homebirth Debate Blog, I get the feeling when she is dissing those of us who promote homebirth that she thinks we are some organized group of women who all think alike, believe alike, and get together daily to hash out what it means to be an advocate of this type of birth.
I barely have time to talk on the phone to fellow activists, much less spend hours and hours in a smoky back room plotting and planning how to share the good news of home birth with other women.
By lumping us all together as the most naive, undereducated, simple minded people on the planet when the topic of birth comes up, she implys that a conspiracy of sorts is out on the web, manipulating innocent young couples into the dark dungeons of unscientific and indefensible home birth.
Home Birth activism is sort of like Home Schooling…

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