#WhyIDidntReport Applies to Birth Too
When I was giving birth to my first son, in the hospital, I really wanted a natural birth. This was before the days of google, before midwifery was legal in California, before any of my friends had babies and consequently heard the birth stories of my peers. I was young. I was naive. I was hopeful that my expressed desire for a natural birth would be honored. It was not honored. And in many ways, it felt like a violation. An unwanted IV, an unwanted induction, an unwanted epi