Oh PALEASE!!!!!!
"Do you have flashbacks or nightmares about your baby’s birth? Do you have panic attacks? Do avoid your baby because he/she reminds you of your traumatic experience? Are you having fantasies about hurting the baby, or yourself? Do you have difficulty concentrating? Are you unusually irritable, angry or depressed? Or are you just numb and can’t feel anything? Then you may have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from your childbirth experience."
"Flashbacks?", "Fantasies about hurting the baybee?" 'Avoiding baybee because he reminds you of the birth?". What a LOAD of BULLSHIT. Of course the baybee reminds them of the birth and of course they will have memories, aka "flashbacks" of giving birth, who wouldn't? I have all kinds of "flashbacks" of unpleasant experiences and things which I consider physical and/or emotional trauma which have happened in my life. However, neither they NOR I have post traumatic stress syndrome/disorder in any classic medical sense. So now they want to be compared to and treated like a soldier who witnessed his entire platoon being shot to death and spent a few years in deplorable conditions in a POW camp? Yeah, I can see where voluntarility having sex to get knocked up and getting pain medication in a sterile environment with medical personel on standby, and a baybee oozing out their cunts would be the same or a similar event as what the soldier experienced.
Then they give THIS list of things to look for in a "mother friendly" birthing center.
"...They do not help and may hurt healthy mothers and babies. They are not proven to be best for the mother or baby and are not mother-friendly.
They should not keep track of the baby's heart rate all the time with a machine (called an electronic fetal monitor). Instead it is best to have your nurse or midwife listen to the baby's heart from time to time.
They should not break your bag of waters early in labor.
They should not use an IV (a needle put into your vein to give you fluids).
They should not tell you that you can't eat or drink during labor.
They should not shave you.
They should not give you an enema.
A birth center, hospital, or home birth service that does these things for most of the mothers is not mother-friendly."
Maybe an enema isn't "mother friendly", but it is damn sure sterile environment friendly. NO one gets to eat or drink while under direct medical care and I am pretty sure that has a lot to do with not choking on your own vomit, THAT sounds pretty "friendly" to me. As for their tootie not getting shaved, what difference does that make anyway really? Their cooter area probably looks like a jungle, so I don't really see how that could hurt anything and it DOES grow back. How can they administer medication if there is no IV? Presumably moos will be flip flopping around and I am certain that restraining them would not be "mother friendly", so how do they administer medication then? Why wouldn't anyone with common sense WANT a fetal heart monitor? If this whole "mother friendly" birthing experience is allowed to happen then there would be countless more baybees born with problems or perhaps even an increase in stillbirths. If they want "moo friendly", then they need to not get knocked up, birth it at home with no meds, or either wait until the kyd has sprung forth from the jungle and go out and eat or something.