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The Case For Natural Childbirth Essay

Three Births The author of this reflection and response has been asked to take in the story of the three-time mother mentioned in a story and how the overall birth process varied so extremely from birth to birth. The third and final birth was apparently without any major hitch but the first one was a train wreck and disaster by comparison. The question to be answered, and that answer is quite obvious, is why the earliest birth was so traumatic and problematic and why things got so much better for the future births. While doctors and nurses surely have at least some good intentions when it comes to the facilitation and expediting of baby births, there is something to be said for letting nature handle things as it may and being more patient.

Analysis

Before getting too much into the reflection angle of this brief essay, the first question to be answered is why the birthing process varied so much from the first birth to the third. The answer, of course, is that control was not in the hands of the mother for the first birth and the use of drugs and other means to hurry the process along...

The baby was indeed early and this is not to say that all situations where Pitocin is administered will end up in this manner, because that obviously is not true. What is true is that had the mother in question had the situation to do over again, she surely would have insisted to let nature take its course. Indeed, unless the baby or mother were in obvious distress or danger of dying, the process should have been allowed to play out as it normally would and should based on nature, biology and what is naturally going to happen. The mother in this case study almost died due to the damage to her vagina, uterus and perennium. It is quite likely that none of that would have happened if the birth had been allowed to happen naturally.
What changed, of course, was what the mother knew the second and third time around. She used her voice and expressed that no overt interventions or expediting forces (E.g. drugs) should be used unless it was absolutely necessary. Indeed, in the case of the first birth, the Pitocin was only used because…

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Butler, K. (2017). Did having a baby leave you with a horrible, debilitating, embarrassing injury? You’re

not alone. Mother Jones. Retrieved 13 August 2017, from http://www.motherjones.com

/politics/2017/01/childbirth-injuries-prolapse-cesarean-section-natural-childbirth/









 

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