According to the CDC, 1 in 5 women are mistreated during maternity care in the US. 1 in 3 if you’re Black or Hispanic. 45% of pregnant women are held back from asking questions or sharing concerns.
Birthing mothers are frequently deprived of self-agency. When a woman gives birth, everyone starts assuming they know what’s best for her without ever asking for her opinion or consent.
If you know about the husband stitch, or how women are made give birth while reclined for the doctor’s convenience, or how frequently women’s complaints of abnormal pain are dismissed, or how often women are yelled at while in labour, or they are threatened and withheld treatment, or how little their privacy is respected, you would know why women are turning to home births.
This isn’t an issue of women being silly and brainwashed on social media. Women are being actively failed by a medical system that refuses to treat them like people and not just walking uteruses.
So before you belittle women for choosing a home birth, ask them what kind of shit they have been through at a hospital that they would rather risk death than go back there again.
Those are all very valid points. I didn’t feel the article was critiquing home births at all tho.
To me that article was about two con artists who have made $13 million + by amplifying those valid problems you shared to the point many women wouldn’t even take suffocating babies to a medical professional. There are dozens of babies who died of perfectly preventable causes but those two influencers just pocketed the money without remorse.
According to the CDC, 1 in 5 women are mistreated during maternity care in the US. 1 in 3 if you’re Black or Hispanic. 45% of pregnant women are held back from asking questions or sharing concerns.
Birthing mothers are frequently deprived of self-agency. When a woman gives birth, everyone starts assuming they know what’s best for her without ever asking for her opinion or consent.
If you know about the husband stitch, or how women are made give birth while reclined for the doctor’s convenience, or how frequently women’s complaints of abnormal pain are dismissed, or how often women are yelled at while in labour, or they are threatened and withheld treatment, or how little their privacy is respected, you would know why women are turning to home births.
This isn’t an issue of women being silly and brainwashed on social media. Women are being actively failed by a medical system that refuses to treat them like people and not just walking uteruses.
Everyone like to talk about how stupid women are dying in childbirth to preventable causes, and yet no one wants to talk about how suicide due to post-partum depression is a leading cause of death in the perinatal period.
So before you belittle women for choosing a home birth, ask them what kind of shit they have been through at a hospital that they would rather risk death than go back there again.
Those are all very valid points. I didn’t feel the article was critiquing home births at all tho.
To me that article was about two con artists who have made $13 million + by amplifying those valid problems you shared to the point many women wouldn’t even take suffocating babies to a medical professional. There are dozens of babies who died of perfectly preventable causes but those two influencers just pocketed the money without remorse.