Let's stop treating women who choose vaginal births as morally superior or stronger than women who opt for C-sections.
, to whether one chooses to get an epidural or not, and to the myriad other highly personal decisions that are made between a birthing parent and their doctor. Many people have wonderful experiences with unmedicated home births, and many others have easy-breezy experiences with elective C-sections.
Thankfully, companies and doctors are beginning to recognize that much of the discourse around pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting is not only outdated but potentially psychologically wounding — and that includes the terminology. Peanut, an app that connects women in all stages of motherhood, recently developed a glossary called
which includes 63 phrases that are due for an update, along with suggested alternatives to them, with the help of experts including linguists, therapists, and OB/GYNs like Dr. Javaid.As part of the glossary, instead of the stigmatizing term “natural birth,” Dr. Javaid advocates for being more specific and saying either “vaginal birth” to mean vaginal delivery or “surgical birth” to mean cesarean section.I don't believe that we should label women that have intervention as unnatural.
The glossary was originally inspired by a video in which a woman expresses how “shitty” she feels after her doctor called her a “
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