I agree. There are a lot of false dichotomies in these comments as well. This isn't simply a choice between preposterous, idealistic fluff like "I believe that the knowledge of how to birth babies is within each woman", OR placing your baby's birth completely in the hands of hospitalists. Even if this claimed knowledge of how to birth ba…
I agree. There are a lot of false dichotomies in these comments as well. This isn't simply a choice between preposterous, idealistic fluff like "I believe that the knowledge of how to birth babies is within each woman", OR placing your baby's birth completely in the hands of hospitalists. Even if this claimed knowledge of how to birth babies was ever there, it's now been bred out of our cultural lives along with so many other "intuitive" health ideas that were previously passed down through the generations. Most births were mostly fine throughout the millennia, but "mostly fine" includes cases like my father's mother, who was mostly fine with her seven deliveries until she died in the last one because the doctor, who could have saved her, couldn't get his horse and sleigh through the snow to her house in time.
I agree. There are a lot of false dichotomies in these comments as well. This isn't simply a choice between preposterous, idealistic fluff like "I believe that the knowledge of how to birth babies is within each woman", OR placing your baby's birth completely in the hands of hospitalists. Even if this claimed knowledge of how to birth babies was ever there, it's now been bred out of our cultural lives along with so many other "intuitive" health ideas that were previously passed down through the generations. Most births were mostly fine throughout the millennia, but "mostly fine" includes cases like my father's mother, who was mostly fine with her seven deliveries until she died in the last one because the doctor, who could have saved her, couldn't get his horse and sleigh through the snow to her house in time.