Jenny Hatch

It is somewhat crazy to think that women who are part of our very educated and proactive group of mothers would ever be compared to mothers in the poorest sections of the country, befuddled by poverty and illiteracy, and then that so called PROOF thrust in our faces as to why we should go to a hospital to give birth.

Talk about appealing to emotions.

As I said before, many of the women, and I am one of them, who choose freebirth, do it simply because we do not want to have another section.

The debate comes down to this:

Is birth INHERENTLY dangerous?

Based on my research, when a mother is well nourished, has some good information on birth, and even better, is in good shape physically....birth is safe most of the time, for most women.

Why should I, as a healthy woman, subject myself to the insanity of American Birth when I know it can be done a thousand times better in my own bedroom?

Infant mortality is just that, infant mortality of children under a year of age. It is NOT birth mortality. That is not me putting my hands over my ears and yelling "NO, a thousand times no, I will NOT listen".

It is a fact.


In using the straw man argument of infant mortality to dismiss freebirth, so many other factors are left out of the equation.

Economics.

Impact of traumatic birth in hospital on a marriage.

Inability to give birth to more children because of permanent damage during surgical birth, (which is increasing in America).

Liver Toxicity in the baby from too many drugs.

Brain damage in the baby from too many drugs.

Lack of ability to breastfeed, I already shared Dr. Odents studies outlining why surgical birth has such a horrifying impact on milk production.

Lack of immediate post partum bonding, cause baby is in the NICU and momma is getting stitched up.

And the less intangible but equally alarming:

Permanent scarring from episiotomy which can have a horrifying effect on a womans ability to enjoy sex.

As an aside, would you as a mother prefer to have a fourth degree episiotomy with tearing down to the rectum, or would you like to enjoy the mother of all orgasms (as many freebirthers are describing experiencing during couple births) surrounded by candles and soft music and only your lover in the room? Click on this link to watch an amazing birth.

Here is a link to a YouTUBE clip from our childbirth video, A Clear Road to Birth.


I appreciate the time it must have taken you to post all of those tables and links about infant mortality....but this movement is about so much more than the fear of dead babies.

Once again I will ask, Can anyone convince me WHY I should go into a hospital to give birth in 2007?


I am not here to try to convince any of you to have a freebirth. I've done my homework and at this time in our nations history it is the safest, most prudent form of birth I can think of to accomplish the goal of creating a healthy family.

Please convince me how I am wrong in this analysis.

Jenny Hatch