Latonya Williams Instagram – The most SHOCKING statistic I’ve come across while pregnant👇🏾
The United States has the HIGHEST maternal mortality rate of ANY developed country.
Shocking? Yes. Surprising? No. The medical industry is for profit and hospitals are a business. Like any other business, they get paid for services rendered which incentivizing them to fit as many interventions as possible into their birthing protocols 🤑. And like a restaurant needs to flip tables as fast as possible, hospitals need to flip beds – making low-intervention births that may take longer, less attractive (regardless if this may be better for the mother and baby).
THANKFULLY, gone are the days of routine episiotomies 🫣 and slandering midwives as quacks BECAUSE not every routine is right for everyone, or even right at all. In the past, where midwifery waned (due to propaganda from the medical industry), the rate of maternal and infant fatalities caused by childbirth or birth complications typically rose, primarily due to obstetrical interference in birth.
Ultrasounds, cervical checks, membrane sweeps, induction, Pitocin, water breaking, IV’s, epidurals, cord clamping… just know that not everything that’s been normalized is normal. You’ve got the right to informed consent and you can do your own research. If you need help weighing the pros and cons – find a midwife or doctor that’s aligned with your values. Just make sure you’re walking into your birth with some main character energy 🦸🏽♀️.
This all may sound overwhelming or scary – so why am I still smiling? Because I’ve got the right tools to handle my fears, a great community of other awakened mama’s and friends for support, and a midwife I can trust.
I’ve got an unmedicated at-home delivery planned for our baby and I. I don’t want Pitocin, I want my baby to come when they’re good and ready. I don’t want an epidural, I want my body to have full control to do what it’s fully capable of. And my baby doesn’t need a warmer, they’ve got me ❤️
BUT If things don’t go according to plan A, that’s ok too 😌.
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