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Natural Birth
The most facepalm-y comments you have gotten?
Just curious...what sort of comments regarding natural birth have you received that just made you want to roll your eyes?
I think my personal favorite is "Wait...you can't swallow a normal prenatal vitamin, but you expect to give birth naturally?"
...well, I'm not likely to choke on my baby, so I'm going to go with "probably".
Also, gummy prenatals are delicious and don't aggravate my gag reflex :-)
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Re: The most facepalm-y comments you have gotten?
really? I thought it was gonna a walk in the park. ::eyeroll::
Chemical Pregnancy 10/5/10
BFP 2/7/11--m/c 2/12/11
TTD pics taken by knottie jen&louie
You'll change your mind once you're in labor...
Really? Because I hadn't even thought to be as fully prepared as possible, armed with knowledge, a husband who respects my wishes, and a doula to help me! Yup, I seem pretty on the fence.
"Wait, you're doing a homebirth? How are you going to get the baby out?"
Magic, lady. Just magic.
winner! ^^ right there... winning comment!
Chemical Pregnancy 10/5/10
BFP 2/7/11--m/c 2/12/11
TTD pics taken by knottie jen&louie
Another few gems that I've heard:
(This one is along the "ridiculously insensitive" lines, rather than just stupidly facepalm-y, so I hope no one gets offended.) "I dunno. If I was a rape survivor like you, I'd want to be numb so I didn't have to know anything going on with my vagina."
O.O
Here's a couple of funnies to detract from the awkwardness of that last one:
"If you're having a natural birth, why aren't you vegan?"
"You know childbirth hurts, right?"
"You're probably too small to have a natural birth. It'll hurt really badly so they'll probably just give you an epidural no matter what."
"And will you be expecting some sort of medal afterwards?"
"3 months after this baby is born, no-one will care if you went all natural gung hoe, so why bother?"
I will remember jacka$$.
That is so RUDE! Some of us just don't like medication if we can avoid it - we're not being martyrs or heroes, we just want to let our bodies do what they were made for! For crying out loud...
...though there are some women out there who totally act like they should get a trophy for natural birth. And that is pretty obnoxious. I don't really understand the whole "waving your ovaries in triumph" attitude. Everyone who gives birth deserves respect, regardless of the method.
Regarding water birth: "didnt the water get cold?"
Yes, because there's no way to drain the water and refill it with more hot water....
Just want to hand someone their "sign" for that one.
Heres your sign. LOL
Agreed!
Ha! I love that...and so true...
"You know you don't get a trophy, right?
No S*!t, really?? I thought they handed those suckers out at the hospital. Oh well, guess I'll just have to buy my own! lol
the link isn't working for me
. What does it say?
Yeah, this one. And, because I was a vegan until the m/s started and am still a vegetarian, I am treated to, "Is this because you're a vegan?" and "Is this because of some hippie sh*t like not eating meat?"
Then, some people move on to insulting my pets and housekeeping. My pet/home is just too dirty for a baby! Where do they think the kid will live once I have birthed it, anyhow? At least I know there's no MRSA in my living room, which is not something I can say for the "clean" hospital.
1) "Natural Birth is dangerous. The baby could get stuck."- I don't even know what to say about that one.
2) When discussing my birth plans with a friend who was weeks away from delivering her own baby, she asked, "wait, what's pitocin?" Some people seriously need to research their childbirth options.
3) The usual "you're nuts" comments I get from people
Now I'm seriously considering having a trophy made.
I get a lot of people asking me if it's safe.
DH was probably the only one who really had the courage to ask me the ignorant questions. I told him I'm thinking of giving birth in our big jacuzzi tub and I had to explain to him that the jets will not be going at the time of birth, as he was worried about clogging up the system. LoL.
But for the most part, people are really uninformed about home births and natural births and I was one of those people until I started educating myself, so I look at it as an opportunity to plant a seed of knowledge with others.
not a link, i just underlined it for emphasis.
Could be a good market for that. Make trophies for "push presents" hehehe
I have avoided discussing my birth plan with anyone so far. I don't want to deal with anyone else's thoughts on the matter, lol.
July 3rd, 2012 ~ Hang in there sweetheart, we can't wait to meet you!
I wonder if cafe press or some other site sells the little plastic ones? We could all send them to each other.
I didn't get a ton of comments, because with DD, I didn't really share my plans, and with DS, everyone knew my birth story with DD and didn't question what I was doing.
But when I was pregnant with DD, I did have a friend ask me if I was taking childbirth classes at the hospital, so I truthfully answered no, I'm taking Bradley classes. Her comment: "Oh. Does that mean you're going to be one of those women who delivers their baby hanging from a trapeze?"
Um, no. I might use a birthing bar... but I don't think my hospital room has trapezes.
A couple other funny, if not really facepalm-y comments:
From a friend a few weeks away from delivering her first baby, upon hearing that I hadn't gotten an epidural with DD: "Wow, I'm so impressed that you were able to handle that awful pain!" Ummm, you've never given birth. How do you know what it feels like? FTR, I didn't consider her birth to be painful.
Also, I coach high school lacrosse, and I was hesitant to get into the homebirth thing with them. But one of the girls asked what hospital I was delivering at, so I took a deep breath and told her I was delivering at home. She said: "Oh, do you have to take some kind of class for that?" I think she thought homebirth = unassisted birth. LOL. And LOL at the idea that if I WERE going unassisted, that all I'd need to do was take "some kind of class"
Mommy to DD1 (June 2007), DS (January 2010), DD2 (July 2012), and The Next One (EDD 3/31/2015)
The best response I have gotten.. today actually, was the noisey cricket reply of my MIL when we told her I was trying all natural, no intervention.
Creek creek creek... Hello? are you still on the phone?
Um...I kind of LOVE this idea, for real...
Agreed!