For those of you who don't know, I am 33 weeks pregnant!! I am so excited because I have made it past the time when i had Elise so early!! I had her at 30 weeks 6 days. so just a day shy of 31 weeks!! So I have been sitting on pins and needles waiting to get past that point in this pregnancy. I DID IT!!! so obviously pregnancy and labor and birthing have been on my mind alot lately and for those of you who don't know, I am going to be delivering at home!! I am doing a home birth. I wanted to do this with Elise but she had other ideas. which is ok because Elise needed to come her own way. I have a feeling that this one will be a little more cooperative. It is a boy and we are going to name him Ryan James!! isn't that a great name!! James is Jeremy's middle name. I have no idea if anyone but myself reads my blog. maybe, maybe not but its a place where I can express myself. almost like a journal but with the added benefit that maybe someone somewhere will read my thought.
Which brings me to why I am posting today!! I have been reading A LOT about birthing techniques and labor, both in the hospital and out of it. and something hit me the other day. most articles I have read or peoples opinions I have read on different blogs and some of my friends opinions have been that labor is SO hard and oh so painful. which don't get me wrong it is hard and painful. But from my experience with elise, its not THAT painful. at least not to the point where you have to have medical intervention in the form of an epidural. I mean if you go in prepared with knowing what your body is going through and what it might feel like, then its pretty managable. I am not saying its the most pleasure I have felt in my life, no way. it is painful. but I was able to get through it and be able to be in control of my daughters birth in stead of having to have someone else tell me when to push and not being able to feel anything from the waist down (that thought scared me more than the pain did!! I didn't want to feel like I was paralyzed!!) call me crazy. so back to my point. in all the stories these days that I have heard about people labors and briths is that they are started.... What? started? in all the reading i have done, the body knows what its doing and will go on its own..... but then how do they start them? with pitocen. a drug that is known to make labors longer and contrctions harder. The doctors know this about pitocen but do they tell the unsuspecting pregnant mothers this? NO! all that poor mother knows is that she is uncomfortable and ready for the baby to come out and the doctors want things to happen on THEIR schedule. NOT the bodies..... so they induce a labor when the body is not fully ready to have this baby and because its not progressing fast enough for them, they give them MORE pitocen! and then because of the pit the contractions are so hard and painful that the mothers can't (or don't want) to handle the pain and so they ask for an epidural to take the pain away. so then what happens? the labor all but comes to a screeching halt because the epidural block the body's natural cheical that makes it go into labor. then because it stops, they give more pitocen and more pitocen to get labor started again!! so then again contractions become harder and more intense than they ever should or could have been had they let themselves go naturally!!
Don't women see the correlation between these hard and painful labors and being started? and having the doctors give them pitocen and these super painful hard long contractions?!?!?! C'MON WOMEN OF THE WORLD!! EDUCATE YOURSELF AS TO WHAT YOUR BODY IS GOING WHEN YOU GET PREGNANT AND REALIZE YOUR POTENTIAL AS A CO-MAKER WITH HEAVENLY FATHER!! You can do SO MUCH more than this new overly medical-zed world will tell you about unless you educate yourself.!!!
ok enough of me being on my soapbox!! but hey isn't this my blog? don't I ge to talk about whatever I want to on MY blog?!!
Happy birthing ladies!!
