"How can a man possibly understand the joy of unmedicated childbirth?"
Sometimes, all you can do is laugh.I saw this statement on homebirth advocacy website, chastising the author of an article questioning why women might refuse pain relief in labor, and I have seen it quoted approvingly on other websites within the past day. Doesn't anyone see the irony?
Natural childbirth advocacy is a creation of MEN! Only a man could come up with the idea that labor pain is good thing. Consider:
Grantly Dick-Read
Michel Odent
Fernand Lamaze
Frederick LeBoyer
Robert Bradley
It is not the least bit surprising to me that men could create a theory that pain is good for women. What is more than a bit ironic is that women (natural childbirth advocates) would accept indocrination in what they are "supposed" to feel from people who never have and never could experience labor.
Labels: feeling superior, pain
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