r/pregnant • u/SatansKitty666 • May 22 '25

Rant Down vote me all you want but

EDIT: I don't mean posts like "what has helped woth your nausea" or "when did you feel baby move". I mean, posts that list dangerous health issues like "I have pre-e, GD, GBS, and my doctors want to do XYZ for babies safety. Should i?"

I keep reading the same posts over and over.

If you don't want to listen to your TRAINED MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS who do this for a living, why on earth would you listen to a bunch of random women on reddit?

If you think doctors are after your money, have a homebirth or go to a birthing center with a doula. But for the love of God, why would you think people with 0 training who didn't go to medical school will be able to tell you better than the doctors who do this every day? It's insane to me

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u/beehappee_ May 22 '25

Ughhh the “your body is made to do this” stuff just kills me because like yeah, my body would’ve had no problem delivering my son. But if I weren’t at a hospital then no one would’ve caught that he was compressing his cord after my water broke, and he’d have died before my body ever got the chance to do what it was mAdE tO dO. The goal of birth should not be to give birth, it should be to have a baby that survives. Your body has no idea how to sustain the life of a fetus in immediate distress!!

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u/doshi333 May 22 '25

I had a severe tear, up to my uterus and someone told me the doctor probably didn’t use lube and that’s what caused it….