Lately, it seems like babies are everywhere! I think everyone planned it this way; sneaky! Did you hear that Crystal had her baby? Her names Anna and I got to hold her at the Christmas party up at Uncle Mark and Aunt Rosann's house. She had her right before the party, so she was less than a week old! That's the smallest baby I've ever held!
And along with Crystal's baby, Mandy has Shayla, and my friend Belle has her daughter, Loy....so I'm being overwhelmed with this multitude of babies! It's got me back on my natural birth kick. I stopped reading about it around the end of senior year. I was still really into it, I just wasn't in the right mood to read about it for some odd reason. But yesterday I found the copy of The Birth Partner that I borrowed from Belle and read almost 80 pages in about an hour. The entire subject, from babies to birthing them, is just so interesting! I don't know how people can stand not learning about at least a little of it.
It makes me laugh at how defensive I get when someone starts talking about how 'hospitals are so great' or how 'I'm going to get all drugged up for this baby'! I try not to say anything, but sometimes I can't help throwing out a few facts on why it would be better to do it at home and with minimal interventions.....:)
It's really sad for me to hear how misinformed people are. I'm not going to lie....it kinda makes me want to shank some movie directors and newscasters....SHHH!!! And then it makes me even sadder when I tell someone about natural birth, they listen, and then they don't do anything to follow up on the subject and continue being misinformed! I mean really? If someone just told you that there was a whole other way of giving birth that could be better for your baby and that's been around for centuries, no, millinia, wouldn't you at least want to check it out?! And how selfish can you really be? If people were told of the side effects of some of the 'miracle' drugs they use, I'd bet money that at least a few more people would say they wanted to at least try it without them. The difference between babies that I've known who were born naturally vs. babies I've known who were born with their moms (and themselves through the mom) being drugged absolutely astounds me! And the difference between a breastfed baby vs. a formula fed baby is just as amazing.
I guess what I'm heading towards is that birth is a HUGE deal and I just don't see how an almost mother would be able to live with herself if she didn't look at all her options and decide which was the best suited to her. I think that's one of the reasons I admire Belle so much. She had her first son in a hospital with an epidural. But a few years after she had him, she started to get interested in natural childbirth. She has had two babies since, one was born in my basement (awesome, yes?) and the other she had in her new house. No drugs. No hospital. She was able to admit to herself that she may not have done exactly the right thing with her first son, accepted the fact that she simply didn't know back then, moved on, and was more informed with her next two pregnancies and had them in a safer way. I think that most mom's just don't want to admit or acknowledge that they may have made some mistakes with their children's births, so they go on in the same fashion as before, whereas if she could just admit to herself that it could have gone better for the both of them if she was more knowledgeable, she could easily avoid the same mistakes with her future children.
Okay! I really need to stop! This has turned into quite the little rant....sorry about that....^_^ I just get so into it I can't stop writing! Be prepared! There may well be more of these on the way.....hee hee! OH!!! And by the way, did I ever send you a copy of my senior paper? It seems like I did, but I wasn't sure.
Can you believe that I wasn't actually going to write about any of that? Well....except the first part, but still. What I was actually going to tell you was that Aunt Linda let my mom and I borrow some old videos of when we were just little! One of them is just me when I was about three months old. Just doing cute baby Lacey things. The other one was of my first birthday party. It had me, you and Alissa. It must be said: We were the cutest babies ever! It even had us running around nakey after we had a bath! When your mom tried to get you dressed you were trying to escape and saying 'no thank you no thank you no thank you' over and over as I was attempting to go outside with my trike and my bare butt! I made it for about two seconds and then my mom grabbed me! Way to spoil the fun. ^_^ I miss being little and romping around with all my cousins. That was the bestest!
And along with Crystal's baby, Mandy has Shayla, and my friend Belle has her daughter, Loy....so I'm being overwhelmed with this multitude of babies! It's got me back on my natural birth kick. I stopped reading about it around the end of senior year. I was still really into it, I just wasn't in the right mood to read about it for some odd reason. But yesterday I found the copy of The Birth Partner that I borrowed from Belle and read almost 80 pages in about an hour. The entire subject, from babies to birthing them, is just so interesting! I don't know how people can stand not learning about at least a little of it.
It makes me laugh at how defensive I get when someone starts talking about how 'hospitals are so great' or how 'I'm going to get all drugged up for this baby'! I try not to say anything, but sometimes I can't help throwing out a few facts on why it would be better to do it at home and with minimal interventions.....:)
It's really sad for me to hear how misinformed people are. I'm not going to lie....it kinda makes me want to shank some movie directors and newscasters....SHHH!!! And then it makes me even sadder when I tell someone about natural birth, they listen, and then they don't do anything to follow up on the subject and continue being misinformed! I mean really? If someone just told you that there was a whole other way of giving birth that could be better for your baby and that's been around for centuries, no, millinia, wouldn't you at least want to check it out?! And how selfish can you really be? If people were told of the side effects of some of the 'miracle' drugs they use, I'd bet money that at least a few more people would say they wanted to at least try it without them. The difference between babies that I've known who were born naturally vs. babies I've known who were born with their moms (and themselves through the mom) being drugged absolutely astounds me! And the difference between a breastfed baby vs. a formula fed baby is just as amazing.
I guess what I'm heading towards is that birth is a HUGE deal and I just don't see how an almost mother would be able to live with herself if she didn't look at all her options and decide which was the best suited to her. I think that's one of the reasons I admire Belle so much. She had her first son in a hospital with an epidural. But a few years after she had him, she started to get interested in natural childbirth. She has had two babies since, one was born in my basement (awesome, yes?) and the other she had in her new house. No drugs. No hospital. She was able to admit to herself that she may not have done exactly the right thing with her first son, accepted the fact that she simply didn't know back then, moved on, and was more informed with her next two pregnancies and had them in a safer way. I think that most mom's just don't want to admit or acknowledge that they may have made some mistakes with their children's births, so they go on in the same fashion as before, whereas if she could just admit to herself that it could have gone better for the both of them if she was more knowledgeable, she could easily avoid the same mistakes with her future children.
Okay! I really need to stop! This has turned into quite the little rant....sorry about that....^_^ I just get so into it I can't stop writing! Be prepared! There may well be more of these on the way.....hee hee! OH!!! And by the way, did I ever send you a copy of my senior paper? It seems like I did, but I wasn't sure.
Can you believe that I wasn't actually going to write about any of that? Well....except the first part, but still. What I was actually going to tell you was that Aunt Linda let my mom and I borrow some old videos of when we were just little! One of them is just me when I was about three months old. Just doing cute baby Lacey things. The other one was of my first birthday party. It had me, you and Alissa. It must be said: We were the cutest babies ever! It even had us running around nakey after we had a bath! When your mom tried to get you dressed you were trying to escape and saying 'no thank you no thank you no thank you' over and over as I was attempting to go outside with my trike and my bare butt! I made it for about two seconds and then my mom grabbed me! Way to spoil the fun. ^_^ I miss being little and romping around with all my cousins. That was the bestest!
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I started to reply in a comment, but it got too long, so then I just made a new post...
haha! i understand! it had to be done! :D
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