NMR: discovery health channel "freebirthing"

april062604

maybe it's because i'm a preemie mom, but i'm watching this show called "freebirthing" about women who choose to have totally unassisted childbirth and i think these women are totally nuts! no doctors, no prenatal care, no midwife, no meds, no nothing, they do it themselves. ? it's a bit frightening.

MrsBee10

OOhhh. We watched this last week when it was on. Those women are TOTALLY nuts. I would be scared to death to attempt something that risky!

MelZull

I saw this before and these women are crazy!?

SCOOTER

Having had a medicated intervention-ful preemie twin birth and a doctor free med free intervention free birth (he came too fast), I can totally appreciate what the body does naturally, I just had to trust myself.   I wasn't ready to let go of doctors though so I was always heading towards a hospital.  To each their own.  

cands

Yeah. I'm not a big fan of that sort of thing.  I understand that women have been giving birth at home for centuries, but women and babies used to die in childbirth too.  I understand if you can't make it to the hospital.  But I think making the decision to intentionally have a baby at home as opposed to in a location where they could be treated by doctors (ideally a NICU) if something went wrong is selfish. It might be a more wonderful experience or whatever at home, but I just can't see any beautiful birthing experience as being worth adding any additional risk to the health of the baby.

Andrea Isaacs

I have thought the exact same thing.  These women have lost their minds!

rach*champp*3-1

I saw that a while ago too and kept thinking "what a trainwreck."  I was so weirded out by it but couldn't stop myself from watching the whole thing.  Definitely not something I would ever do.

skimberlin

That's crazy! I understand some woman want to do it all natural and all thatk, but what if something goes wrong. I think that is too riskey, and you need to think about you and your childs health. You never know what could happen.

laceymb

If you want to go all natural that is fine but to birth at home with, far away from any medical help if needed is selfish I think. At least have a midwife with you who has some sort of medical training if the unexpected should happen. I would never forgive myself if I chose to birth at home to avoid medical intervention and it cost my child their life.