MOTHER | Saturday, February 24, 2001 - 03:33 pm MY JOURNAL: LABOR OF LOVE What do you think about home birth? I had no idea what giving birth would mean to me. I thought it would mean endless, beating pain; anger at my husband and the world; anger even at my baby. And fear. That was the big one—fear of the contractions reeling off another round through my body. Fear of possible slices, stitches, injections, and drugs. Fear of my body being broken and ruined for a time. Mothers I spoke to consoled me with the promise that as soon as my baby was born, I would forget the pain. But you know what? I never, as long as I live, want to forget a single sensory moment of that extraordinary night. I claimed the right to my body and my experience, and got to marvel at the majesty of it. And every year as I wrap a birthday present for my girl, I will be thinking about our labor—hers and mine—and how magnificent we both were. It all started with my wanting a home birth. It just seemed obvious: I didn't want the conventional picture of a woman on her back with doctors urging her to push. In fact, I didn't want my experience to be controlled by anyone other than me, unless it had to. I couldn't imagine feeling "loose" in a hospital; it seemed too claustrophobic an environment, unfamiliar and forbidding. Even in the early stages of pregnancy, I knew I needed to be in a place that I identified with trust and safety, and in my home I could be whatever I wanted to be, whenever I wanted. If my pregnancy ran into trouble, I would find a hospital and readily hand the problem over to the experts, but with a healthy pregnancy, I knew who the expert was--me. |
Anonymous | Saturday, February 24, 2001 - 07:28 pm Woow! that was a heart touching. i am not a mom yet but one day Insh Allah if Allah will give blessings. thank you for the beatiful article. P.S:i am usually debating but speachless now! |
Basra | Sunday, February 25, 2001 - 04:15 am Wow Mother Personally i would not be crazy enough to have a baby the old fashioned way at home.No wayyyy,if the time comes,sweety i am running to those hospital pain killers. Nevertheless;forgive me for my two cents,your experience was inspirational. |
Hibo | Sunday, February 25, 2001 - 08:35 am Mother: This is a master piece. U have indeed articulated labor in its utmost perceptions. To tell u the truth.... I am not a mother yet...but would certainly want to be one some day....Thinking about the labor pain....is somewhat scarry.. As Basra said.. I am ready to run off to the hospitals....when the pains call out....but contrary to her...no pain killers for me.. no way....I wwould definitely let nature take its toll....Ur experience was infact very touche`....thnx for sharing. |
Bored | Sunday, February 25, 2001 - 08:43 am The copy & paste crew is at it again. Pathetic how these chicks crave attention. More pathetic are the fools who fall for their conniving cyber escapedes |
Anonymous | Sunday, February 25, 2001 - 01:53 pm Yes, Bored, PATHETIC is the word!! THANKS! |
XAYAAT | Sunday, February 25, 2001 - 06:11 pm Mother's are magnificent, and we all know it. It must be very painfull to deliver a baby, and it's even wors doing it in an empty house where doctors are not near. Aney kind of complications can accur, The emplicalcord can rap it's self around the baby and suffucate him/her, The baby can aoutomaticaly turn his head up word or side ways instead of facing down, which can couse you to die in an instant. NOW TELL ME WHAT KIND OF MOTHER YOU ARE? WHAT KIND OF A MOTHER PUTS BOTH HER SELF AND HER BABY IN DANGER? NEXT TIME THINK ABOUT WHAT YOUR DOING. THIS IS NOT A WAY TO PROVE THAT YOU CAN BE BRAVE. WANT TO BE BRAVE; GO TO THE SAVANA AND PLAY WITH THE WILD ANIMAL AND COME BACK WITH A LIONS HEAD, THEN I WILL CALL YOU BRAVE |
I can be a bitch if i want to | Sunday, February 25, 2001 - 06:35 pm xayat you dumb stupid.lol Didn't you read tha at the end of her article she wrote she had access to a Hospital if there was any danger.Dont show off your ambilicalcord knowledge to us which you probably learnt it in watching ER in TV.This is an article concerning birth,the last time i check i never knew men gave birth from their asses. So Honey hit the road its exclusively women's issue.Unless you want to join the women club.If you are,let me have the honor to cut that tiny dick of yours and send it to the nearest Musuem for conservation on the smallest dick in a mammals history.pitch. |
FREEMAN | Sunday, February 25, 2001 - 07:28 pm how about being real or facing the reality.everybody i met wasn't so real, they just want to get jiggy with it. and they make funn of things not concertrating it's proper facts. |
Anonymous | Sunday, February 25, 2001 - 07:41 pm hahahahahahahha bitch Oucccccch! |
Basra | Monday, February 26, 2001 - 11:13 am lol What is this? Circus du soleil? Xayaat mind ya own business. looooooooool Hibo Liar sislol joking no pain killer? God ya are tuff. |
Anonymous | Sunday, March 04, 2001 - 12:46 pm This is the most inspiring piece of experience.Great job mother.Can you tell us how your daughter is doing? |
Anonymous | Sunday, March 04, 2001 - 12:55 pm hibo and basra the biggest 2 bitches in somalinet between the two of them i'm taking the words BITCH & WHORE off my dictionary. |
Hibo | Sunday, March 04, 2001 - 10:27 pm Basra: I have a friend sis.....she used the pain killers...twice...whenever I see her sis...she is complaining of lower back pains....after some...research I found out that the painkillers...were the main cause....so..sis... I would rather endure that short period of extreme pain.....than deal with one..for the rest of my life!! Plus...I want to know...how my mother felt...when she was having me.... |