• Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Lotta crunchy types do this, bc they don’t want their newborns having blood samples taken, or vitamin K shots, or don’t believe dying in childbirth is a thing. Antivax mentality as far as I can tell.

    My kid was born with the cord around his neck and basically ripped my wife open on the way out so I’m pretty grateful to have been in a hospital setting :shrug-outta-hecks:

    There’s a reason we do it in hospitals, shit is extremely dangerous

    • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      A very good friend of mine almost died in childbirth for her first kid and for some fucking reason decided to do a home birth for the second because she doesn't like doctors. I'm glad she's still alive.........

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Putting your wife or yourself (depending on who believes in the woo ideology) and child at a huge increase in the chance of dying to open the libs is something else.

      • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        It’s not even owning the libs a lot of the people who do it are libs, it’s like this weird thing going on with an overlap of yoga and reactionary ideology/purity fetishism. Homeopathy falls in the same bucket

    • Kuori [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      i hope everyone came away safe and healthy <3

      • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah it was all routine stuff but outside of a hospital it would have been ugly

        Just think of how many people you know that delivered by C section, either mom or baby wouldn’t be here without that intervention, and we’re talking 2 minutes to get you from delivery to the operating table right down the hall they are on standby

        That’s 32% of births btw

        • Kuori [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Glad everything turned out okay! Yeah it's wild to me how many people choose to do something that's already incredibly dangerous in the riskiest way possible. Crunchy granola people really ride my nerves with this shit.

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      God the term "crunchy" to describe a person is so fucking revolting in that context and I can't read it without being completely thrown off, I just imagine this fucking dried mucosal film flaking off from behind someone's ears and hair and neck and it's audible and oh GOD, I know that's not the etymology but I can't not think about it