let me say a few wordws to reassure you abuot being a smaller woman seeking a natural childbirth. I;m not huge myself but you sound smaller than I am. my fairy godmother, Roslyn, is tiy. a pino teacher for most of ehr life, she had fur girls in the 15 years between when she was 26 and when she was 41. Roas stands abuot 5 feet eight if that now, and probably never weighed nnety pounds. each of her babies was born after an easy TWO HOUR LABOR, weighing betweeen 6 and 7 pounds. all were healthy from the get-go. Ros is still with us at age 91.
most small women had small thers, and upuntil fairly recently “natural childborth” was the only kind of childbirth there was. evolution would have ruled out smaller women brthing successfully back before medical intervention.
you’ll do great, I’m sure. there is a prejudice against small peopole in ur society. don’t listen to it.
]]>I guess for us it all started way before we were even pregnant. We’ve always been the type to take minor illness and health issues and go to the source of the problem as opposed to seeking out a cure for the symptoms. I feel like that is really all doctors know how to do at this point is to medicate you and offer solutions that only mask the real underlying issue that causes the symptoms.
Remember back in the day when my brothers and I were all medicated due to depression or ADD or whatever? I was on antidepressants until about the sophomore year of high school because the psychiatrist my mom had us seeing decided that was what I needed. The real issue was that I was working through tons of stuff like dieing friends and divorce and abuse… That is hard for anyone to deal with and I got the idea early on that the drugs were just masking the underlying stuff so that things weren’t messy and hard to deal with. Once I got off the pills and proved to the docs that I wasn’t going to kill myself I got to start working though stuff as best as I could.
Anyway, that is where my distaste for “medicating the symptoms” came from I think. I just don’t trust that the doctors are really going to do what is best for me, I feel like they are all so worried about complications and the unknowns about birth that they tend to rush in to interventions, thinking they are helping when in many cases they are only making things harder. Isn’t it crazy how situations in life shape our perspective so much?
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