This is the first woman on this show I genuinely hate.

[apocalypsos]

So I'm watching Twins By Surprise, which is like I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant, except they obviously already know they're at least having the one baby.

Anyway, I never hate these ladies. I get the ones who have a surprise pregnancy, because it's just a convergence of circumstances -- heavyset moms, irregular periods, negative pregnancy tests, almost no symptoms or weight gain -- and then all of a sudden you're giving birth on a bathroom floor. Every pregnancy isn't textbook, for crying out loud. And as for the twins, one of these stories occurred prior to sonograms and the last two have to deal with home births.

This is where I have a problem.

Not in home births, obviously. If you don't want to go to the hospital and you have a midwife on hand to help out, more power to you. The first story of a home birth is a woman who had a midwife, a doula, and regular home check-ups up until the birth. Not surprising that they wouldn't know there's a baby.

But this idiot ... oh, I hate this idiot.

The first two kids she had were delivered in hospitals. Then she decided she hated hospitals. So she had her third baby at home, by herself. I've heard no mention of any genuine medical education -- she read up on the freaking INTERNET and did all of her prenatal care BY HERSELF. Then she has her twins at home, and they both turn out breech.

Look, I'm glad your kids turned out healthy, but you're a goddamn moron.

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[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, good fucking LORD. *headsmack*

And, like, it's not that I don't entirely get the home-birth thing. It's just, if you're going to do it, why the hell wouldn't you have some pre-natal care, at least so that you can make sure that when you're home all by your lonesome having your kid in a bathtub, you won't end up with two little feet sticking out of an uncomfortable place, or an anencephalic surprise, or a sick baby who dies in your arms but would have been saved if you'd given birth in a hospital? I mean, hell, there's even one notable circumstance listed in that Wiki entry.

I can't even wrap my brain around being that goddamn selfish.

[mylenn.livejournal.com]

Exactly. There are just so many ways that childbirth can go wrong, would you not want to be somewhere safe with people who can fix things if they go wrong? I mean, one of the amjor arguments for this type of thing (and homebirthing as well) is that women have been giving birth for thousands and thousands of years and so it is a natural thing. But childbrith also used to be the number one cause of death for women, so....

[mylenn.livejournal.com]

Also, I agree that it is a very selfish thing to do. The women who are proponants of this say that they are doing this for their baby and that it will help them to bond. But when you put them into such a risky situation, without real regard for their well-being, before they are even born, then you are not doing it for the baby, you are doing it for you.

GAH!