The blogroll has its uses, however. I have been laughing for 7 minutes straight when I discovered that pro-nature midwives are waging a brave and fierce war against. . . putting hats on newborns:
There is really no limit to the deadly defiance of these midwives. Evidently there’s no limit to the ridiculousness, either. The latest “obstetric practice” deemed unnecessary: hatting!
Yes, you read that right. Homebirth midwives have come out against the practice of putting hats on newborns to protect them from loss of body heat. Do animals put hats on their babies? No, they do not; ’nuff said. Of course, animals don’t wear clothes, don’t sleep in beds and don’t live tweet their births, but that is totally different. If you couldn’t live tweet your homebirth, how could you possibly fulfilled your narcisstic need for praise?
Yes, sure, we should treat our infants exactly like animals treat their newborn. My aunt’s cat ate her babies. Maybe one of these midwives is planning to repeat the cat’s feat of nature triumphing over the horrors of civilization.
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This has to be a joke, right? I know it says at the end that it isn’t, but that just makes me even more suspicious. The way they acknowledged a flaw in their own argument, and then dismissed without explaining why is pretty similar to the way a lot of people present straw man arguments.
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I also want to believe that these people are not real. However, there was a time in my life when I was hanging out with a group of homebirth midwives. They do have this way of thinking and it’s completely unshakeable. It’s all an issue of money, nothing else. They want to bamboozle the silly and the narcissistic into paying them loads of money for uninsured homebirths.
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Well, Dr. Amy (Sorry, Clarissa, I know you like her) tends to blow things up into mammoth proportions and twist stuff around so it sounds far more ridiculous than it was to begin with. Although in this case, the “begin with” was fairly eye-roll-worthy, and the blogger she links to makes me want to *facepalm* with a sage smudging stick a few dozen times. Still, aside from that, I haven’t seen ANYTHING about home birth advocates going on huge rampages against the hat, just ones saying “ya know, maybe the hat isn’t all that crucial.”
Maybe it is and maybe it isn’t. But in recent months it seems like Dr. Amy has gone from informational to a level of bile-spewing I have rarely seen anywhere on the internet. So…I’d say, grain of salt and all that.
My own opinion. Not trying to be argumentative.
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Free Hat! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW0AmeXp5_M
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In your midwifery and homebirth readings, have you come across the placenta eaters?
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Yes, tragically. 🙂
So many unbalanced people roaming around.
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