Right, the screenshots could come from any of the other 28,000 members... Where are y’all with the goods? 😂

Fed is best! Send her their website, and her anxiety will turn to rage at the bill of goods we’re being sold.

Bullshit. She has bullshit.

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Sure, as long as you don’t mind the extra few stillbirths that absolutely could have been saved at the hospital, home birth is great! /S btw, have a friend have a stillbirth at the hospital, so I know the hard way that babies die in hospitals, too - but they die at a higher rate at home, and in non-surgical…

If that’s true, you should be helping your clients file all sorts of complaints with their insurance companies. Only good can come from it; if you’re right, those docs and nurses get in big trouble, and if you’re wrong, you learn why.

Well, they do. Risk of infection and stillbirth rises by the hour after your water breaks, and if you’re not having regular contractions, Pitocin is absolutely the best thing to try.

Obviously it’s a YMMV thing, but my epidural was wonderful! I never even felt the initial needle go in, and it was the perfect level of pain relief - I could feel all the pressure, but no pain from said pressure! It was amazing. I was even able to tell the nurse when I was dilated enough to push.

That’s actually a violation of your informed consent.

You may enjoy reading through these topics you’ve mentioned on skepticalob.com, along with the comment sections. And, by the way, I delivered my first at a freestanding birth center with a midwife. Flat on my back on a four-poster bed. I’ll just say it WAS NOT cool and leave it at that. My second, however, was in a…

I’m on skepticalob.com, where there are British commenters, and yeah, you either go pain relief with OB or none with midwives in the NHS.

Also, their warm and caring tends to be during generously-timed appointments. When, to use my personal example, you call at midnight at 41 weeks with close contractions, and they try to push you off because they all just got home from a 36-hour stretch at the office with other laboring women... That warm and caring…

As in, with a midwife at a birth center, where there are no monitors besides a handheld Doppler that is dicey at best? Been there done that, and it’s not a good scene.

As a resident of said state, I can confirm that it’s awful, but also that we’re trying to make them be better.

French, too. Le effed.

I know, I’m secretly glad I left the coast for property inland. I may be sitting on prime real estate in Appalachia 😐

Ain’t no party like a Liberal party

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Oh honey, me too. I’m like, born and raised in Birmingham and been all over and ain’t heard that one.

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