You’d think I’d have learned better and stopped watching these mainstream birthing shows. I do it *very* occasionally, not all the time, and certainly not as much as I did when I was pregnant. They bother me mostly because I had a midwife and a homebirth and know how it could and should be, and I feel sorry for these moms who aren’t informed enough to make that choice. Anyway, on this one, the mom got a c-section in case her baby was too big (there’s already something wrong in that), but when they weighed and measured him, he was 6 ounces and a few inches smaller than my son, who was 8 lbs. 7 oz. and 21 1/2 in. I birthed a baby who was bigger than this one naturally and she gets hers removed from her stomach thinking that he’s too big. What are we coming to where we think that an 8 lb. baby is too big?
The thing that bothers me the most is what the hospital people do while and after the baby comes out. They’ll suction the baby before he’s even out, clamp and cut the cord early, take him away and weigh him, scrub all the stuff off of him with a towel very roughly, and do all kinds of other stuff before even thinking of giving him to the poor mother. I don’t understand why they have to do everything so quickly and impersonally.
They’re bringing new lives into the world, not working on an assembly line in a factory. Why can’t they at least wait a few minutes for the mother and baby to bond before doing a bunch of stuff to him? I don’t get it.
