I like keri, she seems level headed and nice.

I agree with Pam that she wasn’t insinuating everyone should have a natural birth. In fact she says “And what an amazing powerful gift it is to experience as women without all the intervention, when possible” When possible being the key word. I wanted to have a natural birth too but ended up having horrible back labor, an epidural and ended up with a csection-things i never imagined going in. I was dilated to 9cm but my daughter got stuck right at the end and i never ended up pushing…we waited hours and then had to do a csection for her safety and mine. You just never know what will happen when you go into the hospital. Never the less it is a powerful experience any way it happens.

See, I’m the opposite. I like hearing about celeb moms that had natural births, because they seem few and far between, and they mirror my own experience closer, so I relate to them easier. That’s just me though.

I didn’t really get the feeling Keri was saying or insinuating that natural birth is for everyone though – obviously it isn’t, a lot of times for reasons out of your control.

I’m so sick of this “birth is a natural thing” argument when what people should be saying is that “we believe birth is always a healthy thing”…which is obviously isn’t.
Birth is a dramatic, powerful, delicately-balanced occurrence which can bring with it a myriad of problems, large and small. Hence the centuries of women who died in childbirth. If a woman goes to the hospital with a broken leg and asks for all possible procedures to ease her pain and fix her wound, why should she be faulted if she wants as many options for her childbirth.
If a woman can have a child HEALTHILY–with just a midwife, breathing, and oils, that’s fine. But if a woman hasn’t a good chance of a healthy birth–she should have the right to choose if she wants meds or a cesarean…without being led to believe that she’s being suckered by the medical world.
My birth would have been “natural” but I was three weeks late, had to be induced, and then my mom bled out horribly–resulting in health problems she still has today.
So I honestly wish these celebs would stop propagating the idea that all women should aim for natural births when obviously many women’s bodies are not capable of it.