Things You Need To Know Before Giving Birth At Hospital

I found that many women who are aiming for natural birth, attempt to have a birth at hospital. While it is possible to do so, I think it is such a risky propotition.

Hospitals are in business of managing birth, and are more interested in managing birth efficiently than in being considerate of each woman's needs and feeling. This is not surprising considering the numbers of women who are giving birth there at any given time. Therefore, even if a woman wants to have a natural birth, a lot of time, hospitals cannot do their best to ensure that the woman gets what she wants. Instead, her wants are only second to hospital policies aimed for managing the labor and delivery process, which means:

• a woman is subjected to many hospital routines and prohibition, many of those are not proved beneficial in improving labor and birth. In fact, some of them can interfere with natural course of labor or can make a woman uncomfortable that the labor is halted, slowed down or become more more painful.
• a woman whose labor is not considered 'normal by hospital standard' (i.e. taking longer than it should be) are not accomodated and supported accordingly. Instead, she will be induced so that she can give birth within the time frame, which can lead to a more painful contraction and a cascade of other intervention.

Therefore, I suggest you to read the article on hospital birth first before making a decision whether you should have a hospital birth or not.

Having said that, I also believe that it is possible to have a natural birth at hospital. However, a woman has to struggle harder to get the birth that she wants at a hospital.

For those of you who are aiming for natural birth at hospital, this is a list of articles which can help you to get the birth that you want at a hospital.

• Tips for maximizing the chance of having natural childbirth at the hospital and What to do on D-day to ensure you are having a natural child birth at hospital.
  
  
• How to choose an obstetrician supportive of natural birth
  
  
• Tips of choosing hospital supportive of unmedicated birth and Tips of choosing hospital supportive of natural vaginal birth and breastfeeding

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Other birthing options:

• Homebirth - Why giving birth at home
• Giving birth at a birthing center

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