Robin Frolic

Yeah, Frolic said, "If people want to continue the conversation past this point, you may want to split it into two threads."

It's a subject that's dear to my heart. I'm cynical by this point about people ever getting over their fear enough to be honest about the realities of hospital birth (the people who say "I'm having the baby in the hospital just in case" drive me apeshit; "just in case" scenarios are a hell of a lot more likely to happen if you're in the hospital, and then they're so glad they were in the hospital because they think otherwise they or the baby would have died), but that doesn't stop me from trying to educate people when the situation arises. Who knows, maybe having read this discussion will light the spark in somebody to continue researching the subject, and that may save them from the risks of a medicalized birth sometime down the line, or at least make them educated enough to reduce the risks as much as they can.