F**K IT MILES, GIVE ME SOME PRIVACY

This is about my experience and thoughts about deliveries. This is not comparable as such to anyone’s individual birthing experience, but it has a message that might be useful to someone.  I read a couple of articles yesterday about C-sections on my Facebook stream.  One of them  was about how C-sections are best with a little labor, meaning that the labor starts in itself and includes some of the “you’re about to be born” messages to the fetus. I’m a bit puzzled about cesarean sections gaining popularity in our society. Especially I’m surprised about the increasing number of planned C-sections. There are well studied reasons why they are popular in  some parts of South America for example , which is mainly to do with the doctors scheduling instead of respecting the natural run of labor. To see the practice gain ground in our society however makes me uneasy. The reasons women go through a surgery vary from complications during pregnancies, avoiding risk f...

Have you ever asked someone what they do in life and didn’t know what to say back after they answered? Did you know that being a stay-at-home mom is a good answer to throw most people off, especially academics. I was sitting today, having a nice conversation with six other people whom I barely knew beforehand. We all speak the same language and had sought each other up via social media to have a drink and a talk  just because . At one point the conversation someone asked the obvious, “so, what do you do?” and stared at me. “I’m a mom of three, married, and that’s basically what I do.” I answered. The whole table grew silent, people stared at me and the table uncomfortably, until I stared at the next person so she could tell everyone what she does and everyone would have something to talk about again. By all means I wasn’t the only mom on the table. There were two other moms, one stay-at-home like myself and one working mom, both awesome people and both academics. I was the only ...