Posted on 06/05/2014 5:41:13 AM PDT by C19fan
A new reality show announced by Lifetime on Wednesday will follow young parents who forego not only hospitals during the birthing process, but also any shelter at all. Born in the Wild will portray the men and women who decide that giving birth surrounded by only the beauty and serenity of nature and away from any doctors or modern interventions is the way to go. Inspired by the huge popularity of a YouTube video that shows a woman giving birth in a tropical creek, some critics say such a show could kick off a dangerous trend that will endanger mothers and their babies alike.
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My daughter presented wrong: a hundred years ago we’d both have died. My sister’s baby came out with the cord around her neck; if they’d been out in the woods, the baby would be dead or have suffered brain damage.
I’m all about letting people make choices. Birth at home, use a midwife, whatever, but doing it in the woods on a reality show is really dumb.
...and on the “third” hand, those deaths were part of a natural selection process, one which has been fiddled with by modern medicine combined with the “One World” collective mindset.
And 100 years ago, there would have been plenty of other women around who had already gone through this, and so knew what to expect, and who also could draw on several generations’ worth of additional word-of-mouth on dealing with childbirth.
Nowadays? Not so much. Not many women out there who’ve given birth with no one other than maybe one other woman to help hold the baby.
And except for a very few primitive tribes still inhabiting the far corners of the world, very very few women who know *anything* about just going off alone into the woods to give birth.
As to *without* assistance? It hasn’t been “easy” for the female of the species to give birth for tens of thousands of years due to the big fat brains we all have.
...and gay guys, after insemination and a short gestation period, only seem to give birth to... turds.
I believe every newborn would be best served by spending some time in a barn, being exposed to cooties.
Well, that should be interesting.
Who writes this crap?
I’m not surprised. After all, Stanley Ann Dunham did this when she shat the Mahdi under a waterfall in Hawaii and got a DIY birth certificate to make him an American citizen. That’s why there’s no real hospital generated birth certificate for the odious thing.
I don’t disagree that obamacare will force people to seek alternatives. But there has to be a better one than squatting in the dirt in the middle of the woods.
Not to mention animal feces, worms and parasites of all kinds, these women are fricking idiots
I really doubt these people are giving birth ‘in the wild’. There is probably a team of paramedics and a doctor standing right behind the camera.
If people want to give birth in the wild, more power to them.
But I suspect these people are merely pretending to give birth in the wild...and a lot of people who don’t realize that will go try it themselves, sans medical team....and potentially have problems.
That’s the treacherous part of reality tv shows like this. If they’ve got a medical team and a helicopter hiding behind the camera, they should put a disclaimer on the screen disclosing that.
My father was an old time country doctor and for years delivered babies in the patient’s home. Dad was proud to have never lost a mother or baby, but often talked about some close calls that caused him to stop home deliveries. I was an ambulance medic and also had the experience of delivering a baby in the field. While most deliveries are without too many problems, there are considerable risks and it is no trifling matter to deliver a baby in the wild. Back in the day when babies were delivered at home without any medical training or doctors childbirth deaths were common.
As if such things did not happen for....oh, the first 30,000 years of our existence.
I think squatting, period, is a better way because gravity is helping. I think the birthing beds they use in most hospitals are not ergonomically correct to allow gravity to play it’s part.
I suspect the male partners of the mothers were involved in the decision, and that is what the writer meant.
I agree with that! I know women who have done the home birth thing with the mid-wife and that's all fine and dandy in a normal birth, also they at least have the option of being life-flighted if things go very wrong, but I still wouldn't do it. Why take a chance?
When / who came up with the great idea that birth should occur with the woman laying on her back and her legs in the air?
I have no problem with women giving birth without a ton of medical assistance, even though I had four very medical c-sections. As long as they have a reasonably safe and clean environment, and nature can fit that bill, or not, depending, and as long as someone there is knowledgable about what could go wrong and what to watch for after birth, and there is a way to get to medical help quickly to save the mother or child.
But I think the YouTube filming should be put aside. Tell us your birth story - we don’t want to see it.
It would be horrible publicity for the show if one of these mothers or babies died, or a baby became brain damaged, and the word would surely get out. I agree, they probably have medical personnel just off camera.
One other aspect that makes me doubt these are ‘natural’ births - timing.
Does the couple, and camera crew, just meander around in the woods for a few weeks, around the window of when she is expected to give birth? I doubt it. They will probably have to induce labor, so they can schedule the event.
And I don’t know for sure, but ethically I would hope that a doctor who induces labor would feel obligated to hang around for the birth.
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