Obstetric violence thread Anonymous 312499
Pregnancy is unironically some horror shit. As if it wasn't enough of a strain on your body alone, it's like society goes out of their way to treat pregnant women like shit because they're helpless. Strangers, doctors, etc. (even your partner can start treating you much worse)
It's just sad. You would straight up benefit from having a bodyguard during birth.
Anonymous 312503
>>312501uhhh who the fuck is a reliable source then
Anonymous 312504
>>312503One who calls them PREGNANT WOMEN
Anonymous 312505
>>312504it calls them women within the same paragraph you retarded sperg
Anonymous 312506
>>312505That's the only thing they should be calling them you dehumanizing cunt
Anonymous 312511
>>312499How anybody thinks they would gain anything from pregnancy or childrearing is the real mystery here. It's financial death and the end of your life as you know it. The worst thing that can possibly happen to you.
Anonymous 312532
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>>312526Not everyone here is American nona, but don't worry, there's plenty articles about the American healthcare.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/obstetric-violence-doulas-abuse-giving-birth/Funnily enough the article refers to doulas as bodyguards who were mentioned in the OP.
No wonder women get postpartum depression so frequently.
Anonymous 312533
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https://birthmonopoly.com/obstetric-violence/A map with personal stories.
>the nurse began to (without asking) manually deliver my placenta by putting pressure on my stomach, and yanking on the umbilical cord. I didn't notice any of this, but my husband did and says she was yanking HARD. My placenta came away, and I hemorrhaged, badly. I lost 1.2 liters of blood, which is just under the threshold to need a blood transfusion (which I did not receive). Anonymous 312543
>>312533There's always a chance of this happening when you try to remove the placenta…
I'm a huge feminist but a lot of these stories are just women with no knowledge of medicine
Anonymous 312545
>>312543>these stories are just women with no knowledge of medicinenona yanking the umbilical cord is literally medical malpractice
Anonymous 312546
>>312545Who gets decide what is "yanking" the cord? Mothers are seeing these things happen for the first time when they give birth. Also I've been there when a new nurse was afraid to pull hard on the cord, patient ended up with an inverted uterus
