Comments on: Oxytocin, science, and damn my computer is making me crazy! http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/03/19/oxytocin-science-and-damn-my-computer-is-making-me-crazy/ The Evolution Revolution Thu, 15 May 2008 20:33:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.1 By: sewathomemama http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/03/19/oxytocin-science-and-damn-my-computer-is-making-me-crazy/#comment-3184 sewathomemama Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:23:17 +0000 http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/03/19/oxytocin-science-and-damn-my-computer-is-making-me-crazy/#comment-3184 you are thoroughly rocking my world, hathor, with these comics. i am a visual learner & although i tend to take dr. odent's words as gospel, it's hard for me to put it into context without visual aids. this is where you come in m'dear. thanks to your recent comics (specifically the "other planet" comic), i am leaning more toward a UC for my future pregnancy than ever before. i had my son in a birth center & yet it still resembled the "what's wrong with this picture" comic. (without the interventions, but just as many people & me on my back) you are thoroughly rocking my world, hathor, with these comics. i am a visual learner & although i tend to take dr. odent’s words as gospel, it’s hard for me to put it into context without visual aids. this is where you come in m’dear. thanks to your recent comics (specifically the “other planet” comic), i am leaning more toward a UC for my future pregnancy than ever before. i had my son in a birth center & yet it still resembled the “what’s wrong with this picture” comic. (without the interventions, but just as many people & me on my back)

]]> By: Julinda http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/03/19/oxytocin-science-and-damn-my-computer-is-making-me-crazy/#comment-3185 Julinda Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:20:46 +0000 http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/03/19/oxytocin-science-and-damn-my-computer-is-making-me-crazy/#comment-3185 What could go wrong with taxes? HA! Julinda (who also still needs to do taxes) What could go wrong with taxes? HA!

Julinda (who also still needs to do taxes)

]]> By: wiffersnapper http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/03/19/oxytocin-science-and-damn-my-computer-is-making-me-crazy/#comment-3186 wiffersnapper Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:42 +0000 http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/03/19/oxytocin-science-and-damn-my-computer-is-making-me-crazy/#comment-3186 Our taxes aren't done, either... but that's the husband's job around here! (I'm too busy being pregnant! :-) What concerns me about that article is the part about how fetuses who aren't exposed to the "stresses" of labor are "safer"... if labor is really so horribly stressful, how HAS the human race survived all these years? We know those cave babies weren't delivered by cave-doctors doing cave-c-sections... you can't tell me that we've evolved ourselves right out of being able to have babies! Our taxes aren’t done, either… but that’s the husband’s job around here! (I’m too busy being pregnant! :-)

What concerns me about that article is the part about how fetuses who aren’t exposed to the “stresses” of labor are “safer”… if labor is really so horribly stressful, how HAS the human race survived all these years? We know those cave babies weren’t delivered by cave-doctors doing cave-c-sections… you can’t tell me that we’ve evolved ourselves right out of being able to have babies!

]]> By: jmcqbigler http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/03/19/oxytocin-science-and-damn-my-computer-is-making-me-crazy/#comment-3195 jmcqbigler Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:21:36 +0000 http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/03/19/oxytocin-science-and-damn-my-computer-is-making-me-crazy/#comment-3195 Actually studies show that babies that have a trial of labor before a c-section do better because of the stresses of labor the contractions help the baby breath at birth so that coment makes no sense that babies have a higher chance of oxygen deprivation because of the stress of labor. On a related note I was just at a bunco group with a group of women and they were taking about there next birth and that if they ended up with a c-section they would just get there tubs tied then. I was amazed that they just seemed to think that there was a possibility of a c-section and it was no big deal. these were normal women planning vaginal (full work hospital) births. It just floored me that it was something they new to be a possibility and no problem about it at all. Although in this same group there was a woman who was pregnant and her other babies were earily and she think she may a month or more early and when I suggested ideas that would help her carry to term she said she wanted the baby early and is worried she may actually go later closer to her due date. I could not understand how she wanted another early baby after her last was in nicu for the first few weeks. Needless to say I have to watch my tongue when I am with this group to keep from just going off about there horrible birth choices that they think are the greatest. I just through in my comments about my birth when approriate and enjoy the night other than that. Actually studies show that babies that have a trial of labor before a c-section do better because of the stresses of labor the contractions help the baby breath at birth so that coment makes no sense that babies have a higher chance of oxygen deprivation because of the stress of labor.
On a related note I was just at a bunco group with a group of women and they were taking about there next birth and that if they ended up with a c-section they would just get there tubs tied then. I was amazed that they just seemed to think that there was a possibility of a c-section and it was no big deal. these were normal women planning vaginal (full work hospital) births. It just floored me that it was something they new to be a possibility and no problem about it at all.
Although in this same group there was a woman who was pregnant and her other babies were earily and she think she may a month or more early and when I suggested ideas that would help her carry to term she said she wanted the baby early and is worried she may actually go later closer to her due date. I could not understand how she wanted another early baby after her last was in nicu for the first few weeks. Needless to say I have to watch my tongue when I am with this group to keep from just going off about there horrible birth choices that they think are the greatest. I just through in my comments about my birth when approriate and enjoy the night other than that.

]]> By: typeogirl999 http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/03/19/oxytocin-science-and-damn-my-computer-is-making-me-crazy/#comment-3206 typeogirl999 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:12:06 +0000 http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/03/19/oxytocin-science-and-damn-my-computer-is-making-me-crazy/#comment-3206 Interesting article. May bring it up in my Human Growth and Development class today. Interesting article. May bring it up in my Human Growth and Development class today.

]]> By: Becci76 http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/03/19/oxytocin-science-and-damn-my-computer-is-making-me-crazy/#comment-3233 Becci76 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:15:17 +0000 http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/03/19/oxytocin-science-and-damn-my-computer-is-making-me-crazy/#comment-3233 You know, my last baby's head was in the "95th" percentile but was only 7lb15oz. Yeah his head was very hard to make it's way out but I still had no tearing or anything like that. I hear over and over "I am going to be induced because my baby is so big" and then they come out weighing a "normal" or even very little amount. It really cracks me up! You know, my last baby’s head was in the “95th” percentile but was only 7lb15oz. Yeah his head was very hard to make it’s way out but I still had no tearing or anything like that. I hear over and over “I am going to be induced because my baby is so big” and then they come out weighing a “normal” or even very little amount. It really cracks me up!

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