Comments on: The Trust Birth Conference… http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/01/04/the-trust-birth-conference/ The Evolution Revolution Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:03:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.1 By: bra1ny1 http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/01/04/the-trust-birth-conference/#comment-2474 bra1ny1 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 08:01:59 +0000 http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/01/04/the-trust-birth-conference/#comment-2474 OMG, I didn't even read the individual articles and I'm just horrified. As a mama who has never given birth (though still hold high hopes to do so), I strongly advocate homebirthing and want to thank you, Heather for giving me the confidence to do so. I also want to thank you for your ardent breastfeeding support. As I come closer in my pregnancy planning (as in planning to get pregnant), I started having fears of breastfeeding, fears that my mammaries are overly sexualized and I wouldn't be able to handle feeding my child with them. After reading your blog the other day (Homebirthing #1), I had a dream that I was about to breastfeed and was feeling weird. Then, the second this baby latched on and started eating, the most innate sense of calm and rightness and well-being washed over me. I woke up with this feeling fresh in my body and knew with absolute confidence that I will be able to breastfeed. Thank you!! OMG, I didn’t even read the individual articles and I’m just horrified. As a mama who has never given birth (though still hold high hopes to do so), I strongly advocate homebirthing and want to thank you, Heather for giving me the confidence to do so. I also want to thank you for your ardent breastfeeding support. As I come closer in my pregnancy planning (as in planning to get pregnant), I started having fears of breastfeeding, fears that my mammaries are overly sexualized and I wouldn’t be able to handle feeding my child with them. After reading your blog the other day (Homebirthing #1), I had a dream that I was about to breastfeed and was feeling weird. Then, the second this baby latched on and started eating, the most innate sense of calm and rightness and well-being washed over me. I woke up with this feeling fresh in my body and knew with absolute confidence that I will be able to breastfeed. Thank you!!

]]> By: wiffersnapper http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/01/04/the-trust-birth-conference/#comment-2476 wiffersnapper Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:03:08 +0000 http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/01/04/the-trust-birth-conference/#comment-2476 Bra1ny1- The best thing you can do to support yourself before/when you start breastfeeding is to find others mothers who have done it or are doing it. Make friends with them and get their phone numbers, so that when you have your first "Oh my God is this normal?" moment, you'll have backup. I think a lot of people don't have anyone to call, then they don't know what to do about plugged ducts, cluster feedings, growth spurts, etc, and they give up. Mommies supporting mommies is the best way to go- and YOU CAN DO IT!!!! (If a lady with size 34A boobies can nurse exclusively for six months, anyone can!) I'm appalled at the C-section rate in our country- and to say that major abdominal surgery is just as safe as natural birth is total crap. All you have to do is look at recovery time and you know that isn't true- I was totally fine the day after my daughter was born- my friend, who had a C-section, took three weeks to get back to normal! (And, if the two are equally safe, why do insurance companies give you two days for a vaginal birth, but four for a section?) Bra1ny1- The best thing you can do to support yourself before/when you start breastfeeding is to find others mothers who have done it or are doing it. Make friends with them and get their phone numbers, so that when you have your first “Oh my God is this normal?” moment, you’ll have backup. I think a lot of people don’t have anyone to call, then they don’t know what to do about plugged ducts, cluster feedings, growth spurts, etc, and they give up. Mommies supporting mommies is the best way to go- and YOU CAN DO IT!!!! (If a lady with size 34A boobies can nurse exclusively for six months, anyone can!)

I’m appalled at the C-section rate in our country- and to say that major abdominal surgery is just as safe as natural birth is total crap. All you have to do is look at recovery time and you know that isn’t true- I was totally fine the day after my daughter was born- my friend, who had a C-section, took three weeks to get back to normal! (And, if the two are equally safe, why do insurance companies give you two days for a vaginal birth, but four for a section?)

]]> By: amyphilo http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/01/04/the-trust-birth-conference/#comment-2478 amyphilo Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:17:05 +0000 http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/01/04/the-trust-birth-conference/#comment-2478 Those stories are terrible. It reminds me of the mom they had on some national news program who got meningitis from her epidural (the doctor didn't wash his hands and kept touching his pager) and was dead by the next morning. I had some life-threatening side effects during my first labor and some horrible aftereffects so I would never repeat the hospital nightmare again. I went in for induction and I actually had trouble breathing and low blood pressure and had to be given epinephrine twice (once for the baby's heart rate, once for me) and oxygen therapy. The doctor didn't even bother to come see me until I was pushing, and he didn't hesitate to do a large mediolateral episiotomy and vacuum extraction. The next day he stopped by my room for a whole 1 minute and said, "Are you gonna live through this?!" No thanks to him I did... Needless to say the second was a home birth! 9lbs 15 oz and no tearing! And once again, here is another youtube video to share: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIKNyfIiMiw Those stories are terrible. It reminds me of the mom they had on some national news program who got meningitis from her epidural (the doctor didn’t wash his hands and kept touching his pager) and was dead by the next morning.
I had some life-threatening side effects during my first labor and some horrible aftereffects so I would never repeat the hospital nightmare again. I went in for induction and I actually had trouble breathing and low blood pressure and had to be given epinephrine twice (once for the baby’s heart rate, once for me) and oxygen therapy.
The doctor didn’t even bother to come see me until I was pushing, and he didn’t hesitate to do a large mediolateral episiotomy and vacuum extraction. The next day he stopped by my room for a whole 1 minute and said, “Are you gonna live through this?!”
No thanks to him I did…
Needless to say the second was a home birth! 9lbs 15 oz and no tearing! And once again, here is another youtube video to share: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIKNyfIiMiw

]]> By: KrisWW http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/01/04/the-trust-birth-conference/#comment-2479 KrisWW Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:36:58 +0000 http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/01/04/the-trust-birth-conference/#comment-2479 Here's another one for you - two British mums die after contracting Strep A in hospital after giving birth. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=506175&in_page_id=1774 Here’s another one for you - two British mums die after contracting Strep A in hospital after giving birth. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=506175&in_page_id=1774

]]> By: Becci76 http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/01/04/the-trust-birth-conference/#comment-2499 Becci76 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:06:44 +0000 http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/01/04/the-trust-birth-conference/#comment-2499 I am just so shocked because I have just been realizing how dangerous inductions are. No one ever told me how risky it was having my last two children induced. I have decided to refuse an induction at all costs with this one (due in May)--and originally it was only because the pain from my first birth was nothing (no induction, no pitocin, no intervention other than breaking my water) compared to the next two that seemed so medical and scary. I will deliver in a hospital but I feel I have a good midwife and great support team to keep the nurses and doctors with their cords and needles away. I have a friend who just gave birth via an *early* induction (39 weeks) on her first baby because the doctors were too concerned about her having a "big" baby. Well, I begged her not to be induced and told her that she was capable of delivering a 10 pound baby (which they thought she'd have) but she insisted she couldn't even though I delivered a 9 1/2 lb baby as my first child and aside from a broken tailbone (I'm 5'2") everything was ok. She ended up having a C-section because of "heart decelerations" after getting to 10cm. It is so heartbreaking to see her not able to get up and move around even a week later when I was out shopping and going to dinner with my visiting family days after my births. Heck, we even took a trip to Mt. Saint Helens when my third was 6 days old--what a blast! I just wish women would believe me when I say "I have been there--don't do it." Anyway, Rock on! Let's get the word out and keep mommies from having to go through unnecessary pain and intervention. I am just so shocked because I have just been realizing how dangerous inductions are. No one ever told me how risky it was having my last two children induced. I have decided to refuse an induction at all costs with this one (due in May)–and originally it was only because the pain from my first birth was nothing (no induction, no pitocin, no intervention other than breaking my water) compared to the next two that seemed so medical and scary. I will deliver in a hospital but I feel I have a good midwife and great support team to keep the nurses and doctors with their cords and needles away.

I have a friend who just gave birth via an *early* induction (39 weeks) on her first baby because the doctors were too concerned about her having a “big” baby. Well, I begged her not to be induced and told her that she was capable of delivering a 10 pound baby (which they thought she’d have) but she insisted she couldn’t even though I delivered a 9 1/2 lb baby as my first child and aside from a broken tailbone (I’m 5′2″) everything was ok. She ended up having a C-section because of “heart decelerations” after getting to 10cm. It is so heartbreaking to see her not able to get up and move around even a week later when I was out shopping and going to dinner with my visiting family days after my births. Heck, we even took a trip to Mt. Saint Helens when my third was 6 days old–what a blast! I just wish women would believe me when I say “I have been there–don’t do it.”

Anyway, Rock on! Let’s get the word out and keep mommies from having to go through unnecessary pain and intervention.

]]> By: lioralourie http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/01/04/the-trust-birth-conference/#comment-2516 lioralourie Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:07:14 +0000 http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/01/04/the-trust-birth-conference/#comment-2516 no doubt the U.S. infant death rate is 3 times higher than Japan's (for first 24 hours). U.S. gives Hep B shot at birth. That one is particularly bad. Many terrible reactions and deaths from that shot. Japan has no shots at birth. (They start vaccinating at 3 months of age and I'd bet the death rate catches up to U.S. around that time). no doubt the U.S. infant death rate is 3 times higher than Japan’s (for first 24 hours).

U.S. gives Hep B shot at birth. That one is particularly bad. Many terrible reactions and deaths from that shot.

Japan has no shots at birth. (They start vaccinating at 3 months of age and I’d bet the death rate catches up to U.S. around that time).

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