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Can I smack a bitch?
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Also, my menstrual blood includes flecks of gold.
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My sister had a home birth and it was excruciating but she had a great experience and wouldn't trade it for the world. But also no way would she consider someones choice of an epidural as faliure. I think whats important is that we have choice, we just shouldn't make that choice based on a modern idea that anything other than a hospital birth is radical or dangerous. People always look at me like im crazy when I say my sister gave birth at home without meds. But until the '50's thats pretty much how it was always done.
It's not just in antiquity or just at home births that people die during childbirth. Childbirth deaths are supposedly on the rise in America but a lot of that has to do with the rate of c-sections increasing.
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Yep. I personally will choose to give birth with the supervision and assistance of medical professionals because I believe it is my safest bet if something is to go wrong. Other women may not and I know many, many women who have complication-free births in other settings. No one way is better than another. Women just need to educate themselves on their options and do what is best for them.
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PS - yes NYT commenters, women HAVE been doing this for thousands of years, but it was also the NUMBER 1 CAUSE OF DEATH for women for thousands of years.
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