"Unfortunately we live in a society that is addicted to drama, and the mainstream media continue to help satisfy the addiction with their sensational stories about birth."
— Linda McHale and Barbara Nobel Schelling
Not only satisfy, but encourage. It seems that our culture thinks if a birth is not dramatic, then it is abnormal. Nothing to talk about. What? No interventions? How boring. No being "rescued" by the doctor? No respiratory team awaiting your just born child? DULL.
When a woman talks about the natural birth of her child, people are bored. They say "Oh, that's good", and that's about it. But when you have interventions & surgery, that's when they're listening & that's when they're full of questions & comments.
Sad.
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