So it seems I’ve failed at blogging everyday for the month of November. Poo. I missed the last two days but have good excuses. I missed last night because I was dealing with the repercussions of daylight savings time on my children; ie, bedtime meltdowns. It was quite unenjoyable and I was too tired to slap something together for the blog.
The night before that I decided to watch “The English Patient.” Can you believe it? And I got hooked. Sad but true (on both accounts-that I’ve never seen it until now and that I loved it).
So that left no time and energy to blog about an article I read about women of the UK requesting and receiving more elective csections.
I just don’t get it.
I don’t understand how this happens. Barring all emergencies, which seems to be why we have csections in the first place, why is this a choice for a healthy mom? Why has the idea of vaginal birth as normal left the building? Who represents the unborn babies voice in all this?
If given the choice, when do you think the baby would choose to be born? When it initiates labor because it is ready to breathe or when it is convenient for everyone else?
Why is the baby the last to be considered? Or so it seems. And it seems to me to be this way because articles that boast of a mothers choice of surgical delivery rarely if ever mention anything about what is best for the baby or what the baby thinks if given the voice to speak. It’s always about the elite entitled choice of the mother, for reasons I have yet to comprehend.
Back to your regularly scheduled program.
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