Hi there, I am x-posting this repsonse. SInce I am a doula I guess it is appropriate here. :-)


"Un F-ing believeable! I signed the petition and commented this: "Women have not lost the power or ability to birth their children. Let us never give it up!!! And never let us allow anyone to dictate how and where we can birth our children."

I am a doula, but about a month ago I got to be a midwife and I caught my first baby. It was about 2 am and we were on the way to the hospital to have her baby, but baby had other ideas and decided to beat us there. Mommy had been laboring beautifully and before we realized it said she told me she needed to push. Again, before we realized what was happending, (several minutes later) she exclaimed that she felt something. I checked and baby was there. I told grandpa and daddy to pull the car over, we were having a baby. Off came the undies and out came a crying baby, up to mommy's quickly exposed and welcoming breast. Absolutely beautiful and natural. The ambulance came about 10 minutes later along with several police cars to 'help'. There we sat laughing and admiring the newest arrival to the planet. On my last visit with mommy about two weeks later she said that she and daddy decided the next one will be a home birth. I told them it makes sense, after all, she figured she could have and should have had this precious one at home. I would hate to think that her rights and her baby's rights could be possibly taken from them and she would not be allowed this option. So sad this is even a threat to us here."