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10/06/2023

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10/02/2023

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09/29/2023

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04/07/2023

11/11/2021

✨You can birth a baby without anyone’s hands ever being in/touching your va**na or v***a. I’m serious! You don’t NEED anyone to touch you or “check you” in order to birth your baby.✨

I know the medicalized birth system has told you otherwise. I know your nurse or OB told you “we have to check your dilation”, but that was a lie. Nobody HAS to. It is your choice and it is rarely necessary. You can absolutely positively give birth without ever knowing your dilation. It doesn’t make a difference.

✨You also don’t NEED anyone providing what some like to call “perineal massage” or “support” while you’re trying to focus on pushing your baby out either. If you feel you need extra support on your perineum, you are going to instinctually reach down and give that to yourself in most instances. But nobody should automatically be touching you.✨

The obstetric industry’s obsession with putting their hands in our va**na and unnecessarily touching us during birth is gross and rooted in trying to control and pathologize birth. Besides the act of catching the baby (which is also something you can do yourself if you want), nobody’s hands ever need to be anywhere near your va**na in a normal birth without a complication that requires hand in help (like say shoulder dystocia etc).✨

Hands off birth.


Reposted from

03/24/2021

https://www.phillyvoice.com/dear-ob-its-not-your-va**na/

Vaginal exams during labor and the question of consent

12/01/2020