history lesson:preterm babies

faygojumper

So I FINALLY went back and read the posts about premature labor. No one cares anymore and I'm beating a dead horse BUT I have to say something. chasinyamyandmatt suggested that people have always had babies or something equally stupid.

The infant mortality rate was ridiculusly high. If your baby came premature, it died. If you couldn't fit the baby out of your pelvis, you both died. Pretty much if anything went wrong at all, someone died. Things weren't pretty. Let's never again use the 1800s as a reference point for childbirth, okay?

htomeo

So, what you are saying is the pre-21st century science is not very dependable? But that is how I base all my current decisions. LOL

freeburger16

Yeah, the infant mortality rates were my first thought too when I saw her posts...

Some people just don';t know when to shut up.

Pumpkin111

Fay, well said. 

Freeburger, come to 3rd tri.  You're close enough!!

MosersGirl

I feel this way about anyone who uses the phrase "Women have done it for hundreds of years and they turned out fine!"  Sure, they turned out fine if they lived, and even then life expectancy was not even close to what it is today, for many of the reasons these people are defending.  I want to tell these people to get a clue and STFU.