Dear Baby,
The decision has been made, you're going to be born here at home. A few years ago, a friend had a Cesaraen Section, then another, then another. Then my friends had C-Sections, and kept having them, and kept having them. I only have one friend who had natural birth, and that was by accident.
The reasons for the C-Sections were myriad. My friends were too fat, too thin, too old, the baby too big, and it was convenient for the doctor. I don't actually know anyone who went into labor. Rather, the doctor scheduled the due date, the women went in, had major surgery, and brought home a baby. I asked again, and again, but no one had a good reason why this was preferable. Rather, everyone focused on the outcome, healthy baby.
Then I saw the Business of Being Born, and it changed my life. I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature, but I didn't put that together with what I was seeing in all of this assisted labor. I've decided to bow out of that system. I'm a control freak by nature, and between inducement, and drug administration, and the ultimate C-Section, it was clear I would not be able to control your birth process in the hospital.
So we'll welcome you home - at home.
Love,
Dear Mama
