Before we go to play in the summershine

[ailbhe]

So I was reading this livejournal snark community (mistake number one) and I saw a link to a parenting community and followed it (mistake number two) and I read some of the comments (mistake number three) and I saw one where a woman (supposedly a woman) had typed (unless it was the demons in her trousers) that - wait for it, get this, you'll love this -

"Every woman is born with enough of a tolerance to give birth without drugs." There, that's the quote. It's unattributed so no-one will go and track her down and kill her. There's another one: "Feeling you "can't" do it without drugs is a confidence issue, period. Because you can, everybody can otherwise the human race would have died out -- but it's all whether or not you have the confidence to acutally do it."

Excuse me please, I have to go vomit with rage now. Because I happen to be aware that the leading cause of death in women, until pretty damn recently, was birth. Yessir, the most natural thing in the world used to KILL PEOPLE. And I have no idea what the figures are for babies.

It's great that some people have labours and births they can get through without medical intervention, or without drugs, or without pain relief. My mother had four - and she only had pain relief on the first one because the doctors told her to and she didn't know any better. I'm sure I know other people who did it, too.

But some people would DIE if they did that. And so would their babies. DIE until they were DEAD.

And then, you know, they'd stay dead for a very long time.

So watch what you say. It might be bad for my blood pressure.

On that note, me and my baby - neither of whom died, because I allowed them to pump me full of noxious toxic risk-laden chemicals - are going to go play in the Botanic Gardens at Kew. And it will be lovely. We have a picnic.

Comments

[iuil.livejournal.com]

I lived on Neurofen and Anbesol for almost 2 years while my wisdom tooth (yes, singular) was cutting. I was 23 and knew what the pain was. There's no bloody way I'd let a baby go through that if I could help it!

And while I don't particularly like narcotics, I loved the Pethidine in my second labour! I was kind of fond of my epidural in the first too, by the time I got it!