- 10-18-2009, 10:52 PM #1Registered User
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Orgasmic Birth
Another video I thought was quite interesting:
20/20: Pleasurable Birth
- 10-19-2009, 01:12 PM #2Registered User
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`Mommy, tell me about when I was born.`
`...Maybe when you`re older, dear.`
- 10-19-2009, 05:37 PM #3Registered User
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I'm surprised to see so many people think the natural birth option in HK are satisfactory.
- 10-19-2009, 10:47 PM #4Registered User
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I suppose it depends on the OB you're with. I was encouraged to go ahead with natural birth, despite my age, etc, and that's exactly what I did. But true, hospitals/OBs here don't do water births.
Umm, an orgasm was definitely THE last thing on my mind during contractions. Some people really have mind-blowing imaginations.
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Me too--because:
1. Not allowed to do homebirth with a certified nurse midwife
2. No birthing centers in Hong Kong
3. An extremely high c-section rate in Hong Kong
4. Birthing coaches/doulas not allowed in the birthing room (right?)
5. No access to hot water/tubs during labor (right?)
Where I'm from, these are the bare minimum requirements that need to be made available for natural birth options to be fair.
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I think the term "natural birth options" refers to more than just the attitude of the OB. If the OB is like, "Yeah, sure, have a natural birth" but then doesn't coach you/teach you how to have one and make the tools and setting available as well as personnel available to really encourage you to have one, that's not really a "natural birth option." It's kind of one of those things, "If you can do it, do it, but don't expect any extra support" here in HK, I think. Did your OB actively help you have a natural birth or were you simply able to pull it off on your own?
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When you talk about 'natural' birth are you meaning a birth with no drugs or a vaginal birth?
My view is that there is very, very little help in Hong Kong for a birth without drugs. I only know about five mothers who have managed this here.
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Vaginal birth is vaginal birth but natural birth is a drug-free birth, in my opinion. You can have a vaginal birth with drugs and interventions (suction, forceps) but you can't really call your birth a "natural" one if you had a dose of narcotics to numb the pain, I think or your labor was started or augmented artificially. I guess I'm a "purest" in that sense, though.
The nurse midwife at the birth of my son, had worked in several different settings before working at the hospital I gave birth at. She told me that in most birthing centers, pain medication is not even an option on the table--instead they provide a plethora of natural aides to get you through labor.Last edited by thanka2; 10-20-2009 at 12:41 PM.
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