Why I will NOT be having natural childbirth.
First of all, I've never been a fan of pain, especially preventable pain. I feel I owe an easy birth to my great-great-grandmothers, who didn't give birth in pain drinking whisky and chewing on bark for me to decide, now that we have modern medicine, that I don't want any.
Recently I found out that they do not issue medals or trophies for women who have natural childbirth. On Mother's Day, kids do not give costlier and nicer gifts to the mothers who had drug-free labor. You get NOTHING for your pains, nothing except the knowledge that none of the drugs you just took passed through to your little baby. But as rough as the ride is for the baby, I think she would only appreciate a little narcotic help.
Think of it: it is not the most fun day of her life either. She was all warm, dark, and continuously fed, and now everything is cold, bright and she has never been hungry before and doesn't even know how to eat. So I think a little Stadol or Demerol probably takes the edge off for her.
2 comments:
Jennifer in Portland wrote: You're probably right about baby appreciating the demerol. I am having natural childbirth, so I won't get into the whole debate with you, but it will be really intersting to compare our birth experiences once they're over (if we can remember them, that is!). Here's to pushing the little one out as quickly and painlessly as possible!
Hey again. Worthy. Childbirth is the whole reason we invented drugs. Michelle has an extremely low tolerance for pain, and with all this thing about getting the men involved in the process, they really had to work at that, because in the childbirth thing I felt totally friggin helpless while my wife could've bled to death from her C-section. I know, she didn't, twice over, but still. I'm a worrywart when I don't have a leatherman tool clamped on a lead pipe or something. I think other male people are, too.
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