In reply, I'd say that even if our mortality rates are low, even a reasonably easy pregnancy and officially complication-free birth presents lasting physical changes to the mother.
My daughter's birth would be recorded as incident-free, but I ended up in physio and with severely limited mobility for months afterwards with a problem with my pelvic bones (pubic symphysis separation), I have what I assume is a permanent (at this stage) "numb patch" on one leg left over from the epidural (you never want to hear an anesthetist say "oops"...), and I've noticed dramatic changes in my monthly cycle and various drug tolerances that I can only attribute to effects of pregnancy. And that's not even going into the 21 hours of back labour that made me wish I were dead.
I was pro-choice before I got pregnant. After experiencing something that, by everyone's record-keeping would be considered an uneventful pregnancy and birth, I have become vehemently opposed to anybody who would ever dare suggest that any woman should go through this if she didn't, of her own accord, desperately want to.
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Date: 2010-06-28 04:07 pm (UTC)My daughter's birth would be recorded as incident-free, but I ended up in physio and with severely limited mobility for months afterwards with a problem with my pelvic bones (pubic symphysis separation), I have what I assume is a permanent (at this stage) "numb patch" on one leg left over from the epidural (you never want to hear an anesthetist say "oops"...), and I've noticed dramatic changes in my monthly cycle and various drug tolerances that I can only attribute to effects of pregnancy. And that's not even going into the 21 hours of back labour that made me wish I were dead.
I was pro-choice before I got pregnant. After experiencing something that, by everyone's record-keeping would be considered an uneventful pregnancy and birth, I have become vehemently opposed to anybody who would ever dare suggest that any woman should go through this if she didn't, of her own accord, desperately want to.