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The Importance Of Childbirth In 'The Score'
Childbirth encompasses one of the most important essences of being a female. After reading The Score, how childbirth went industrial, really made me think about how lucky I have been to have given birth to two children vaginally with no complications. I had to be induced with medication with my second child, but everything else went smoothly and I had them both natural. I never realized, I was young when I had them, how many things could have gone wrong.
Most people might not even think about all the tragedies that can happen during childbirth, or even just being pregnant.
It is kind of ashamed that childbirth is becoming so readily surgical and that some hospitals are doing cesarean sections in more than half of the deliveries. It seems like people want the easy way out, no pushing or no labor, but I really
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It is shocking to see how many still die from infection that the Dr’s don't know about. There are a lot of deaths from unknown causes as well. Chorioamnionitis is a big problem in hospitals. We are getting
10 Articles of Atul Gawande placentas with Triple I, which is infection of the chorion, to be rushed as the mother and baby are in danger with infection. It seems with today’s technology there would be less complications and less deaths.
Most people might not even think about all the tragedies that can happen during childbirth, or even just being pregnant.
There are so many as what Elizabeth Rourke went though, wanting everything to be natural. If she had her baby back in the 1600’s the baby and herself probably would have died. Modern medicine prevented that with monitoring and the ceseseran section really saved a lot of lives. There are so many women who leave the hospital feeling like a failure, because they didn't follow their birth plan, or it didn’t go as planned, but at the end of the day if you have a health baby, that is truly a miracle, and you are coming out a

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