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Best of Both Worlds?
Why I am Choosing Homebirth Before Conception
By Christy Rogers
(Bantam, fourth revised edition 1996) by Robert Bradley (the founder of the Bradley Method) and The Birth Book (Little Brown, 1994) by Dr. William Sears. These two books were also pivotal points in my transformation, in that the more I read, the more I came to the realization that my dream of having the best of both worlds would more than likely not come true.
Simple statistics show that by walking into a hospital you are upping your chances of being subjected to routine hospital policies and time limits, invasive procedures, and about 25 percent of the time, a surgical delivery via Cesarean section. The conditions a laboring woman is expected to endure in a hospital are simply not conducive to achieving a natural, unmedicated childbirth.
The more research I did, the angrier I became at the obstetrical field in general, not only for unnecessarily tampering with something that was created perfectly by God, but for robbing countless women of their inherent right to give birth to their babies.
I am so saddened by story after story of completely healthy women with completely normal pregnancies being made to feel that their bodies do not know how to operate properly. "Failure to progress" is one of the most common reasons doctors give for initiating a C-section. Have you ever known a woman to be stuck at 7 centimeters forever? To be in labor forever? Or to be pregnant forever? Who on earth do these doctors think they are kidding? Why won't they acknowledge that nature progresses at its own pace, not according to a textbook, and certainly not according to any hospital schedule?
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