I would love to know how this video speaks to you.
What it says to me: it honors the fact that not every woman has a great experience with a cesarean birth. So, so many times, women who have had a difficult time after a cesarean are told that they should just be happy they have a healthy baby, or that they should be thankful for the life-saving surgery. Or worse, it is often suggested that they just "get over it". Birth matters to women. It is not just a small blip on the radar screen of life. When we are told to minimize our hurt, grief, and anger it trivializes our experience. My experience is as different as the next woman's. And that's ok. But don't tell me that it's not ok to hurt, to be angry, to grieve and I won't tell you it's not ok to have major abdominal surgery if you choose it.
My body, my birth, my choice.
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You are right.
My sister had a cesarean birth with her first daughter b/c the doctor didn't deliver breech babies. After that she told the doctors that she was NOT ever having another one. She had two VBAC's.
Society thinks that the mom should jsut suck it up and smile.
We've got to start speaking up.
These images are so hard to digest for me.
This video stirred up some memories and feelings that I had not thought about in a while. Thank you for posting. Although it's painful to go through those emotions again, it is helpful to process it as part of the healing process. It made me go back and read my "birth story" (a few incoherant thoughts that I jotted down during my hospital stay). I had forgotten some of the details, so I'm glad I had written them down while fresh. Thanks for posting this. And thanks for your blog.
I am in tears...This is the same story of all four of my cesareans...I would love to share it with you, here is a linky..
http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site/view_shared?p=9dc9f06a7271530315aba5&skin_id=1602
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