Natiural Childbirth?

jcossentino21 · April 2013

What do you consider a natural child birth? With my DD, I had no epidural but later found out that I was given pitocin. I am kind of ticked lately because I took pride in what I thought was a "natural delivery".

Also, any moms out there that have denied pitocin or plan on denying it?

Crippy1111 · April 2013

To me a natural child birth is no medicine, no tubes, no ivs etc. example: at home, with a midwife nit a doc, at a birth center etc. However there are gray areas with those. Some consider it to be just without pain medicine, I just consider that a birth w

Aurora_Borealis · April 2013

It's pretty common to be given pitocin after delivery. Even the very low-intervention hospital where I had DD administers it routinely to help reduce post-partum bleeding.

I wouldn't get too upset about it. I had it and very much needed it.<b

tokenhoser · April 2013

I had post-delivery pitocin and antibiotics. I still think my birth was natural, med-free, or whatever else I feel like calling it today. No one has any right to frame my birth in any other way.

pinksweetpea2 · April 2013

Um, you totally rock. You gave birth without pain meds while on pit- that is awesome! Ignore all the nay sayers and be proud of your bad self!

pinksweetpea2 · April 2013

Crippy1111:
To me a natural child birth is no medicine, no tubes, no ivs etc. example: at home, with a midwife nit a doc, at a

Crippy1111 · April 2013

pinksweetpea2:
Crippy11

Crippy1111 · April 2013

jcossentino21:
What do you consider a natural child birth? With my DD, I had no epidural but later found out that I was given pitoc

A37licia · April 2013

Crippy1111:
Thought this might help!
Natural childbirth is a philosophy of childbirth that is based on the belief

luvmyducks · April 2013

I consider natural when you get no pain-meds. But I think you can have your own opinion of it

KateLouise · April 2013

Technically, I would say a natural birth is without any medical intervention or assistance, whether it be pain meds/induction/IV drips/forceps etc etc etc I think the location is completely irrelevant.

However, I think many refer to a natural bir

babyalex124 · April 2013

tokenhoser:
I had post-delivery pitocin and antibiotics. I still think my birth was natural, med-free, or whatever else I feel

aylafsu88 · April 2013

I think a natural birth is one with no pain meds, IV, medical intervention or unnecessary assistance. I personally think you can have a natural birth in the hospital, your home or a free standing birth center. The point of a natural birth is t

bornmommy · April 2013

tokenhoser:
I had post-delivery pitocin and antibiotics. I still think my birth was natural, med-free, or whatever else I feel

Anjkay · April 2013

I consider natural to mean any vaginal birth that is at least pain med free. Sometimes intervention is needed and that's nothing to be ashamed of. And I don't think that to call a birth natural, it has to be a homebirth. To me, that's a a different catago

kdjudd · April 2013

I consider a natural birth to be a delivery with minimal interventions and no pain killers.

robyn2201 · April 2013

Crippy1111:
To me a natural child birth is no medicine, no tubes, no ivs etc. example: at home, with a midwife nit a doc, at a

BLPL101 · April 2013

I had no choice and had to be given an IV with antibiotics (I hadn't taken the GBS test as my water broke at 35 weeks). I was given Cytotec and Pit due to the lack of contractions. I did not use any pain meds and I 100% say I had a natural childbirth. Tho

iris427 · April 2013

jcossentino21:
What do you consider a natural child birth? With my DD, I had no epidural but later found out that I was given

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