FW2, high BP and aatcul pre-eclampsia with first and third sons were what took me to the hospital--not in the middle of the birth, but about two weeks before the due date in each case. No doubt I needed the hospital!zb, you make an important point: you had a role in making choices about what happened to you during your children's births. I think birthing centers with midwives, MDs, etc., can be a happy medium for many, many people.Christine...our home birth was our only complication-free birth (kind of an "of course" there). Our maternal mortality rates aren't very good, either, and are worse for some ethnic groups than others. I think women do need to be nurtured, but they also need to assert themselves, which, as you know, can be difficult given how many of us are reared.ranch101...I love birth stories like these. Good Lord. And what is this birthing nirvana you inhabited at the time? I'd've loved to have someone at least hold up a sheet over the door of our hospital room for our first birth. It's unnerving to look up in the middle of a push and see some strange, middle-aged regular citizen staring at your...you-know-what...and likely seeing your child's head before you do.

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Aw, you have a gripe with me. Hmmph. That's it. It's over.Yes. I am kindidg. I'm not as down on chiro as some. But a lot of what "they" claim is garbage. That's not to say that what YOUR chiro is doing for you isn't significant and effective. As we all know, there are "bona fide" members of the medical establishment who essentially practice garbage. I'm HAPPY to agree to support people's choices. And I'm not one of those homebirthers who pities these sad little women who let themselves fall into the clutches of the medical establishment, although without some of the early stridency, we would have what choices we do have now. I've given birth with epidural and without, and I GET IT. I'm not about to tell another woman how she oughta give birth at home, or without interventions. Hell no. That's what puts the choice in choice, right?

Chiropractors may very well bfneeit people in specific ways, although many seem to carry claims too far. My only experience with chiropracty outside of having a step-grandfather who was one is the chiro I saw while pregnant with child 2. Sent by my midwife, natch. Didn't care for him, and he didn't end up doing much for the pregnancy-induced lumbar pain I was having. He also called his assistants "girls," which irritated me. That, of course, is only one chiro.

Aw. You know I can't quit you. Besides, my main gripe with ctrcopraihy is claims of curing developmental differences and that whole c-spine manipulation thing.