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.

Comments

[girlwiththebook.livejournal.com]

Okay this is slightly OT because it's about a fanfic I read. The woman was pregnant and decided to have a home birth ...only the author didn't talk about if she was going to have a midwife, if she and her boyfriends (she was poly) were taking classes about it, about ANY assistance the woman was going to have during it. It was as if the character woke up one day and suddenly decided "hey I'm having twins and I don't like hospitals, let's give birth at home! Women have been doing it for hundreds of years, it'll be easy!"

Seriously, that was the rationalization given - that women have always done it before, and sure let's just ignore how often babies or mother's died in the birthing process throughout history.

I don't know if I was more bothered by the story or how all the comments were along the lines of 'silly Americans and their obsession with hospitals, this is great!' I've nothing against homebirths. I have a friend who is a midwife and as she was also a classmate of mine, did a presentation of the pros and cons of both hospital births and home births. I fully support anyone who decides to do either ... but giving birth isn't an easy step 1,2,3 process!

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

Seriously, that was the rationalization given - that women have always done it before, and sure let's just ignore how often babies or mother's died in the birthing process throughout history.

I see that rationalization often given and it drives me NUTS. Dying in childbirth, or deaths caused by pregnancy and childbirth, were not rare. Moreover, women usually HAD midwives or at least the assistance and company of other women!

[girlwiththebook.livejournal.com]

As someone who majored in history, with a particular emphasis on gender history during the early modern world, it BOTHERS ME SO MUCH.

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

I, too, was a history major. ;) Perhaps that's why inaccuracies like this gall us both!

[girlwiththebook.livejournal.com]

it hurts my brain so much :(