So I just recently watched the documentary Pregnant in America (http://www.pregnantinamerica.com/) I must say I was moved and enlightened. I wanted a home birth and still want a home birth and am currently looking into my options to do so because well as of yet I haven't been that satisfied with the treatment of pregnant women by the health care "professionals" nor by the corporate American machine for which I work. Since I've been pregnant I've been threatened with firing, have almost lost my home, have been ignored by my doctors as to the problems I've been experiencing, and have all but given up on people's treatment of pregnant women. I never knew that people ignored a woman's feelings about discomfort or pain or questions that they may have. Just recently my doctor has taken steps towards "listening" to my concerns as a first time mother, however, previously I was treated as if I had no idea what I was talking about. They were very cavalier and callous towards my thoughts and concerns as if every pregnant woman experiences pregnancy the same way. LETS GET THIS CLEAR! Every woman is NOT the same so every pregnancy, every birth, every symptom is not the same. SO will all the people out there that think this is so please stop!
Now with that being said Pregnant in America was a very informative documentary. I learned a lot and as I stated have already in some form experienced the horror of the medical professionals. They are there for you the "patient" and yet they treat pregnancy and eventual child birth as some sort of inconvenience. Being a first time mother they almost called me a liar to my face when I would tell them something is wrong. Everything became NORMAL! I mean everything. I threatened a miscarriage twice, this was considered normal. I have been sick morning noon and night and sometimes evenings and mid-conversation, this was NORMAL. I would wake up (if I fell asleep at all) and my entire body would be in pain. I couldn't move. My bones would hurt, my abdomen would feel like I was being stabbed I couldn't walk, stand, sit, lay, drive or anything without some sort of pain.
Now don't get me wrong I'm usually a healthy woman. I used to kickbox, I did yoga, tai-chi, I walked I'm a vegetarian/vegan. I am natural and pay very close attention to my health and eating. So when I started experiencing a very unhealthy pregnancy this was odd to me. I thought I was doing something wrong. But with out telling me what was wrong people would just tell me it was normal or to suck it up (in so many words) and get back to work or life or whatever I should be doing because hey being pregnant does not change your life right? WRONG!!!! I thought that people would take into consideration that hey a woman being pregnant is a delicate time in her life. WAS I EVER WRONG!? You would think that I made it all up. Like oh I'm not really pregnant I just want some attention lol. Nonetheless, I was and am determined to enjoy the growth and gestation of my babies. My seed and bean are growing more and more every day. My health is getting a little better and I'm getting back to meditating again.
It's amazing to me though how women are treating here in America when they are having children. Since when has this experience become some burden on society? Since when has being pregnant and giving birth become some unnatural process? So I'm looking into having a home birth or as natural as possible in a hospital as possible because I too found it alarming the rate of c-sections that women are having in the US. I just found it odd that the first moments of holding your child, latching on, nursing, crying together is taken away from so many women and they can never get that back.
Of course my concerns and risks are high. I mean I'm having twins how successful could I be with having a home birth with two babies? Especially with all the health problems I've had thus far? I know for sure I don't want any drugs and I don't want to be induced or anything of that nature, however, I will keep you posted as to the birth plan for Me the Seed and the Bean!
Blessings abundantly!
Empress
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