Whilst randomly browsing tonight, I came across this wonderfully balanced article on natural childbirth vs. interventions.
It’s exceptionally well-written and nicely sums up how I feel about the subject. It recognises that the complaints women on both sides of the debate have with each other are misdirected. The real enemy is misinformation and those who propagate it.
The truth of the matter is that many women believe they are in possession of all of the facts when they choose to have a desensitised labour, but more often than not, they have not been properly informed of the many natural means a woman has at her disposal for coping with the pain of labour. They are led to believe that the only thing medicated labour removes from the experience is the pain, but there is so much more to it than that.
Anyway, said article explains the issue far better than I ever could, so do read it.
You will actually want to visit this link:
http://catawampus.typepad.com/catawampus/2005/04/defending_women.html
It is the permanent link, the one above is like the front page and this item has already stopped being the top post.
That’s a different article. The correct one really is at http://catawampus.typepad.com/catawampus/2005/04/_over_on_bloggi.html.
I am assuming this is your first baby and that you, yourself, are the father and have never tried to give birth? Pain is subjective much as the experience of giving birth.