Let me guess. You’re white.

Someone missed the point. The author KNOWS Askmen isn’t a legitimate source of information, but the fact that it pops up as the second source when you google “Daddy Issues” means it has cultural currency. Sites like AskMen or Yahoo are a good place to look when you want to get a sense of what the “average Joe on the…

Lol. I’m a kinky poly hedonist who spent the weekend at a friend’s house having public sex...my friends are going to get such a kick out of your comment.

I’m starting to feel that way and I have a one-year old daughter...She’s cute and all, but this is a whole other level.

That kid. It’s like they hired a casting director to produce the perfect British child.

This is an even better response: http://www.somethingawful.com/news/kyle-smit…

This conversation has nothing to do with you, and I am not suggesting for a moment that a 50 year old women with a high-risk pregnancy should opt for a natural birth.

Jesus Christ. You’re really on a crusade to discredit women who make different birth decisions aren’t you? A 50 year old woman with a high-risk pregnacy who scheduled a c-section isn’t just going to up and decide to give birth in the woods. That would be insane, so either she suffered a mental breakdown or was…

Well then by all means, keep making tragic stories all about you and your birth inferiority complex. I’m sure this woman’s family really appreciates your dig at natural childbirth.

Go sit on a pin.

Your source is extremely biased activist who is on a crusade against home birth. Her medical license also expired in 2003.

Read what I said again. I said I survived the PAIN because I planned. I was lucky not to need an intervention due to medical reasons, which I was also prepared for if I needed them, but I resisted pain medication because I developed coping mechanisms throughout my pregnancy.

There is nothing wrong with c-sections for women and babies who need them. What’s wrong is doctors pushing them on women who don’t need them, which happens all the time in the US, and leads to worse outcomes. The fact that people keep conflating the two, and making it personal, anecdotal, and all about them, is…

Well...yes. You weren’t expecting to feel everything since medication was part of your birth plan, so I’m guessing you didn’t practice relaxation techniques and mentally prepare yourself. Epidurals also make labor last longer. My labor was 24 hours, it was painful, but I knew what to expect, had a doula and a…

You’re right. I do pass judgment.

Actually, most of what’s been marketed to women as “cutting-edge science” and thus “good” actually has very little science to back it up. Interventions do not lead to better outcomes for mothers and babies. Here’s some science for you that shows that “natural” methods are actually more scientifically sound: http://evid…

When pregnant friends ask me about my pregnancy and birth, I try to go the same route as your mom “I chose this because of xyz, it worked for me because I wanted x out of my birth, but that might not be the experience you want” Even though I believe in my choices, I try not to sound like I’m shaming others who choose…

Completely agree. People get so hung up on science=good, they never look into just how little science there is to support all these interventions. I love the site linked below because it compiles actual scientific data and low and behold time and time again natural “hippie” methods end up having better outcomes for…

Yes “natural” childbirth, which was done for thousands of years, is what’s the “trend”

If you look at the website the shop looks more like a book store than anything else. Though I think they should have gotten the parent’s permission, I don’t think the location is that extreme. It’s not some shady sex shop with peep booths where the men downcast their eyes whenever a woman who looks like their…