How does the media disempower birthing women?
September 29, 2006
If you’re an advocate of natural birth, you probably have a hard time reading most parenting magazines. They really do fill women’s heads with fear and create the belief that birth is scary and out of control.
If you’ve had a home birth or a birth with little intervention you exist in a different paradigm. Your view is that you had a lot to do with the birth experience you had, and only in the case of a truly rare emergency did things go differently than you planned.
What are some of your favorite disempowering statements you’ve read?
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