Giving birth naturally without any medications or complications is a way more of a feat of athleticism and health than a marathon or being able to deadlift 4 plates.
Requires the woman to have a long history of eating right, mind muscle connection, mental ease/clarity under extreme stress, mobility, and muscle and cardio endurance, ALL at a random time, day or night.
Need to praise women more that accomplish this achievement one and multiple times over.
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It’s not as hard if they use natural birthing positions. The key is to not give birth in hospitals that put you on your back and force you to push and strain. Traditional birthing chairs let you use gravity to help with delivery.
I wonder if there is some unknown extra bonding experience between mother and child from natural birth not yet understood. (Probably some study out there)
Or, if they give birth in a pool, also low impact. Have had friends report that was a fairly easy experience...
I’ve seen successful deliveries done in the bathtub and ocean. Pretty amazing how different these practices and experiences are from the sterile hospital environment.
natural child birth is also better for the post partum journey. way more oxytocin released.
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yes, child birth is an athletic event
A close relative of mine gave birth to 8 kids all naturally and all very easily (no complications). She has basically no athletism and doesn't really pay attention to her health/diet. So, anecdotally, I see it being more genetics.
Yep. Those things are collectors items here in the Deep South. No cushioned, roomy seat for comfort; only short, squat legs, and a small, *scooped front deck with high back rails, made of a sturdy inelegant hardwood. Women were expected to be back in the field an hour after giving birth. No lolling about in a bed to “recover”. All hands on deck, survival mode.
*so the infant doesn’t hit its head on the chair when mother squeezes it out.
Genetics plays a huge role in what you can do with your body, you’re very much correct there
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full awareness and surrender to the process
yes. or at least greater likelihood of bonding.
"lolling about" after childbirth is healthy.
Aho!!
Any 16yo girl can give birth with ease. Show me a 16yo that can lift 4 plates with the same effort.
Depending on which drugs are taken to ease the pain, they can go through the placenta so the baby is high when born.
In some circumstances it is actually very risky to decline the medicine available to mitigate pain and speed up the delivery process. High risk patients who opt out of these things are drastically increasing the probability of complications for themselves and their unborn babies. This is not anecdotal this is statistical fact, and the women who do use these medicines are no less courageous or honorable than those that do not.
Marathon is the right word! The year after I ran a marathon for the first time, I gave birth at home after 60 hours of labor. The marathon was the best mental training for my birthing experience.
After sharing my birth story with a young woman studying to be an obgyn, she said that a 60 hour labor was impossible! (though common for first time home births) I agreed that it would be impossible in a hospital. Lucky me, I chose the alternative.
