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Birth is meant to be painful - not unbearable but we are meant to
feel it - a large object is being pushed through a small hole of course it
hurts! If we felt nothing we would "drop our babies" in the middle of
the street.
If a person exercises and uses muscles that are not otherwise used
they hurt - there is nothing wrong but they hurt. Pain is not
necessarily caused by something being wrong.
I deal with pain daily and with working people through painful
experiences, doing body piercings and everyone deals with them differently
men and women. Some come in very nervous and expect it to hurt a lot
and they find it not as bad as they expected and others come in feeling
confident and they almost faint. Yes i know this goes right against
your theory of getting what you expect and having done 55 piercings in the
last 5 days and 1515 this year (I have been piercing since 1986 so i
guess I can honestly say that you are wrong! You don't always get
what you expect when it comes to the bodies reaction to feelings and how
painful the brain interprets things to be.
Unfortunately, it is not as simple as that. People's
reactions to pain can vary greatly depending upon how relaxed they are and
how comforted or supported they are feeling as well as other factors like
previous experiences etc.
I believe every woman has the right to give birth in a supportive and
gentle environment of her choice regardless of how painful she interprets
it to be.
"The most important right that a birthing mother has.... is to give
birth
GENTLY, EASILY and without PAIN." "Ha!" How do
you fascilitate this?
This does not cover the basic right of choice - the choice to have a
waterbirth if that is how she feels supported and the right to be in
whichever position or place she jolly well chooses without ridicule from
anyone. And without some bright spark telling her there is less
gravity in a pool that there is in a bed. If gravity was the only
factor we wouldn't have muscles to push with, you would not have a
sphincter and you would have " motions" running down your legs
whenever the gravitational pull got a bit harder.
In the right position in a pool she will have just as much gentle
support to birth her baby with her muscles and her body pushing it out as
anywhere else. It is not like she is going to be in a
six foot deep swimming pool is it?
The depth of the water varies things and the actual pressure of
a shallow pool on the outside of the stomach may actually help to
push the baby out.
That may make a difference and there is also more boyancy in sea
water so how on earth or "at sea" do whales deliver
their babies. I am sure they don't swim upside down, i have
seen footage and the baby did not go upward due to
boyancy!
My soap box is being sucked down by gravity so i will step
off before I sink. LOL
Rhonda
PS: i don't think you are upset that women expect pain at all -
I think you are trying to make an excuse for not being able to control it
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