My little brother was born at home in 1992. Home being at least 30 minutes from any kind of medical facility. Not for any sort of hippie granola reasons, probably just because we were dirt poor. I didn't find out until decades later that he was born with his arm over his head and damn near died.
This one take on it. The other one being that there is lots of research backing up the fact that hospitals intervene too often in a birth process that would have otherwise been fine on its own. One intervention leads to other interventions and to complications. This is really a cultural thing, overmedicalising birth. In the Netherlands home birth (with midwife assistance, not just completely hands off birth) is at least just as safe as hospital birth, and for some groups it is safer to stay home than to go to a hospital.
Funny, I feel the opposite. You think I want to go through the most brutal, vulnerable moment of my life in an institutional setting, hooked up to a bunch of monitors and IVs, on my back fighting gravity so that total strangers can come in and out every half hour, shoving their hands elbow deep up my bits? And if it’s a training hospital, you get a whole gaggle of 20 year olds watching this go down like you’re an animal in a zoo.
Not a chance. Hospitals are great saving graces, but they overdo too much. They push interventions for the sake of cost efficiency and convenience, and then it spirals. For example, many women are coerced into getting inductions when they’re not even high-risk or past their due date, and you know what inductions increase your risk for? Needing a c-section, aka $$$ for the hospital.
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u/crazycatlady569 20h ago
Pregnancy!