Should I have a natural birth in reference to having pain medicine ? Its a VAGINAL birth with or without pain meds.
sorry but that drives me nuts.
2007-12-26 12:29:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
Natural means different things to different people. One would assume that a natural birth would be vaginal since it isn't natural to cut someone open, and drugs aren't all that natural either.
What irks me is when people say a 'normal' birth when they find out you had a c section. For some people vaginal is not possible and surgery is the only way.
Personally I prefer the method that leaves a live mother and baby.
(Not referring to anything anyone said here)
2007-12-26 12:46:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Natural means exactly how nature intended, without medical intervention such as IV meds. Obviously having a C-Section would not be natural but that is also not generaly a choice. So when they are discussing their choices it's easier to say natural or with meds then a vaginal birth with med or without. Vaginal births are not always natural either. There are a lot of things besides meds that take that away, like epiiotomies, forceps, monitoring, etc. Griping to pregnant women is also not going to get you anywhere, e are not going to change the way it has been discussed since pain reliefe in labor came out.
2007-12-26 20:43:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I consider natural birth to be without pain medicine and a vaginal birth. That is ALL NATURAL :) if you know what I mean.
So I may drive you nuts! But just understand that we all learn these things with different vocabulary :)
Good luck!
2007-12-26 21:06:50 · answer #3 · answered by Happy Girl 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A natural birth is a vaginal birth without the use of any types of meds.
2007-12-26 20:55:22 · answer #4 · answered by ஐ♥Julian'sMommy♥ஐ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it is a natural birth. Do you think Csections, or even labor with meds are natural? Show me any other animal in NATURE, that has the choice that we do. I am going to have a natural birth with my child, when she decides to come in the next 7 weeks and no one else is going to change my way of saying it. BTW, I'm not saying that anyone who has a Csection or meds isn't normal or natural, I'm just saying, that Natural (vaginal with no meds) is as natural as its going to get.
2007-12-26 20:40:05 · answer #5 · answered by Alicia H 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
technically yes it is a vaginal birth, but there are more commen terms for phrases. Its like you tomato thing how different people pronounce it differently. Alot of people in the medicine industry say a natrual birth as well. I hope you do know that there is various vaginal births as well.
2007-12-26 20:38:59 · answer #6 · answered by Jemjems_Mummy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A natural birth in my world as a labor nurse refers to an intervention-free vaginal birth, meaning free of induction agents like pitocin AND pain meds.
**edited to add: We do not refer to births with interventions as "unnatural", lol. Those are "assisted" births.
2007-12-26 20:33:28 · answer #7 · answered by Take A Test! 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Natural birth means vaginal delivery with no medication of any kind. That's the way i see it, thats the way I say it.
2007-12-26 20:50:20 · answer #8 · answered by mikki080 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
they say it because they're confused about what it actually means.
although... some doctors will do an elective c-section for a woman who just doesn't want to give birth the old fashioned way. is it the right thing to do? who knows.
2007-12-26 20:35:19 · answer #9 · answered by Shannon XoXo 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Natural refers to having drugs. Like All-Natural foods not having chemicals. That is what they are asking about. No matter what they choose to do it is not up to us to tell them what they should do. It's their choice.
2007-12-26 20:35:07 · answer #10 · answered by Ryan's mom 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋