{"id":1175,"date":"2008-06-20T02:24:50","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T06:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2008-06-20T08:35:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T12:35:44","slug":"ama-says-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"AMA Says WHAT??"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article<\/a> just pisses me RIGHT OFF.<\/p>\n

To that end, the resolution indicates the AMA’s intent to develop model legislation “in support of the concept that the safest setting for labor, delivery and the immediate post-partum period is in the hospital, or a birthing center within a hospital complex.”<\/div>\n

That is such BULLSHIT. First of all, what SHOULD BE the most important point here: hospital births are not safer for a low-risk pregnancy! (1<\/a> 2<\/a>) There have been NO studies that show that hospital births are safer. It *feels* safer. It should be safer. But the United States – which has more hospital births than almost all other first-world countries – ranks #42 in terms of infant mortality rates<\/a>. One would think, since we have all this technology and super hospital stuff to rely upon, it would rank better than all those developed countries who depend heavily on midwives and support homebirths.<\/p>\n

But that’s not what pisses me off (not today, at least). What pisses me off is that the AMA is trying to take our choices away. They are trying to make it illegal to give birth at home<\/a>. Even supported by a well-educated, experienced midwife. THAT pisses me off. Who the fuck are they to make the decisions for us? People are allowed to smoke during pregnancy, to make very poor choices – KNOWN poor choices, as supported by research!! – and yet giving birth at home, a decision made for all the RIGHT reasons (in most cases), they are trying to make illegal?? Who the hell are they protecting? Their pocketbooks? Their reputation?<\/p>\n

And I’m not fighting for myself. I suggested to Den, once upon a time, that we could consider a homebirth for the next child, if everything goes splendidly for the first. Obviously that did not happen. Homebirth is completely off the table for us. I feel like my hospital did a very good job in supporting us, encouraging us, getting us through a rough time. They gave ME the decisions, did not force anything on me. Obviously we did not have a live baby to worry about at that point, but I ended up having a natural labor (for the most part – though not entirely by choice). I am VERY confident that at MY hospital they would be supportive of a natural labor next time.<\/p>\n

But I know not everyone has a hospital like mine, where delayed cord-cutting is the norm, and birth balls and squatting bars are available for everyone. I do not believe that my decision to give birth in a hospital will make me any safer<\/i> – I just know that I am going to be paranoid and needing constant reassurance that I wouldn’t otherwise have needed.<\/p>\n

The whole damn system is fucked up here in North America. (I’d say “The U.S.”, but I don’t think Canada is any better off.) The c-section rate is skyrocketing, which is NOT a good thing. Infant and maternal mortality is NOT getting any better. It’s just a damn mess. Because of finances and worries about lawsuits and all kinds of crap.<\/p>\n

Gah, just makes me flaming mad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article just pisses me RIGHT OFF. To that end, the resolution indicates the AMA’s intent to develop model legislation “in support of the concept that the safest setting for labor, delivery and the immediate post-partum period is in the hospital, or a birthing center within a hospital complex.” That is such BULLSHIT. First of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-labor-delivery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}