Hospital birth

          I'll be honest with you, the majority of women giving birth today in the United States choose a hospital birth, along with medication for pain.  This may be a result of many voices urging this including insurance companies and doctors concerned about lawsuits.  Interventions start small, such as medication to take the edge off of pain and even a women planning on a natural birth may find herself with a fully medicated birth and/or eventually a c-section for the safety of her baby.

    1/3 are caesarean births, 1/3 are epidural or medicated births and 1/3 are natural births.

        There are some good reasons to have a hospital birth, yet there are many reasons to do your research first, to see if this is the best option for you and your baby. 

        1.  Introducing medication into your body causes the baby to be sleepy too.  This can cause his heart rate to drop and for him to be sleepy and medicated at birth too.

        2.  Eliminating the pain of childbirth may reduce the immediate discomfort, but a possible eventual c-section is much harder to recover from, pain-wise, than a vaginal birth and it compromises your abdominal muscles.  It is considered major surgery.

        3.  The idea of giving birth can be very empowering to you as a women.  There are few events that can better shape you into a better person, than a very positive birth experience.