Doctors? Or Thieves?

It amazes me how money has taken over this country and now dictates everything. Not even child birth is free from its clutches.  If you use a midwife instead of a doctor, the cost for child birth would be $2000-$3000. If you use a doctor, the cost would be more than $9,000 depending on what they do to you and your baby. The thing that irritates me about doctors is that they don’t care how their actions affect and expecting family.  Hospitals and birth centers are run just like a business.  The more people you can get in and out, the more money they make.  To those who may not know, giving birth takes time. The body has to have time to go through the necessary changes, but here in the U.S. doctors have their own set schedule for your body. If you are not meeting their schedule, they intervene to speed up the process.  Their intervention puts their patients and their babies at risk, but they don’t tell you that. They say “We’re doing this for the good of your baby.”  

When my wife was in labor with my son, it should have been a happy joyous occasion. Instead, it was very stressful, frightening, and irritating.  One of the ways to help speed up the birthing process is to get up and slowly walk around.  Why was my wife strapped to the bed so she could not get up?  Being strapped to a bed in a bad position does not help the birthing process.

They also love using drugs. An interesting thing about the birthing process is that the body has to be relaxed with minimal stress for the birthing process to continue and succeed. Our doctors gave my wife a bad epidural and started her on pitocin.  There were many problems and risks with this.  First, the epidural only affected one side of my wife’s body instead of both sides. Second, my wife’s diaphragm is paralyzed on one side.  When they gave her the epidural, the other side of her diaphragm could have stopped functioning. None of the doctors mentioned that risk.  Third her blood pressure spiked.  Most medical books say your blood pressure drops when they start the epidural. Not my wife.  Her blood pressure went through the roof. It scared me half to death.  In my mind I’m thinking, “Do these people know what they are doing?”  I’m having to stand there watching as my wife’s heart rate and breathing continue to rise and she has broken out into a cold sweat. That was so irritating, frightening and frustrating. The doctors acted like nothing was wrong. 

Then came the pitocin. This stuff increases the intensity of your contractions.  Here is the problem with pitocin. This stuff puts the body under an enormous amount of stress. Under normal conditions without pitocin, labor pains slowly build, peak and die back down giving you a rest period.  With pitocin, they take away the rest period and increase the intensity of the labor pains. If the epidural works as it should, you don’t feel the pain, but your body still has to deal with the physical affects to the labor pains. This puts the body under an enormous amount of stress.  This stress can stop your labor from progressing.  That happened with my wife. My wife dilated up to 3cm and stopped while she was trying to handle the affects of the pitocin. When my wife stopped dilating, the doctor who was on duty came in talking about if she doesn’t start back dilating, they were going to have to do a cesarean section (Keep in mind, their drugs are what’s holding up the process).  We refused and were prepared to challenge them if necessary. I don’t like being backed into a corner by people who say “trust us” or “We’ll take good care of you.” After a couple of hours of meditation and prayer, my wife’s dilation resumed. By morning she was up to 8cm.  Later that morning my son was born. I can’t really call it a naturl birth when you factor in the drugs, and the fact that the doctor used that vacuum plunger on my son’s head to help pull him out.  They are trained to do things which impeed the body’s natural processes so they can use more of their drugs and equipment to make more money.

My advice to you:   Do your research before you go to the hospital. Know your rights. Ask questions, and don’t take no  for an answer.  It could save your wife’s life.