A Vent

Here is my whiney vent for the day. Sorry, it has nothing to do with gaming and is more on the mommy/female side of things- but its been eating at my brain all weekend.
I hate it when people make judgements without all the information.
I post on a few "mommy" boards. And on one of them this weekend a chick posted that she needed help talking to her sister. Apparently her sister has decided on a homebirth for her first child. Chick thinks that sister is "too small" to give birth on her own, and that sister is being naive and stupid. Sister works at a Midwifes office and sisters mother is a midwife. So chick is sure that sister has been brainwashed and doesnt realize how much danger she is putting herself in. How can she convince sister not to do it blah blah blah.

I personally have my babies with midwifes at hospitals because that is what I am comfortable with. However, I did my research when making that decision and I know that while there might be a catastrophic emergency where you or your baby could die in route to the hospital, that statistically its safer to give birth at home with a midwife. The US has a 30+% rate of cesarean sections, (highest in world) highest OBGYN use, highest hospital births, but has the SECOND HIGHEST infant mortality rate and top five maternal mortality rate in the western world. Sweden has the highest midwife rate and the highest homebirth rate and has the LOWEST infant mortality rate in the world.

I honestly dont care how you get your baby here. If being knocked out and having surgery where they cut through all the layers of muscle in your abdomen is your cup of tea then knock yourself out. I just get SO SICK of people thinking and saying that if you use a midwife that your being so unsafe and that your baby is going to die and how irresponsible of you. blah blah blah. But dont bat an eye when someone says they are getting induced a week before their due date because the doctor says their baby is "too big".
Over all Im just amazed at how many women know NOTHING about the process of birth. Its one of the life changing events in their life and they dont even know exactly what a cervix is. They blindly lay on a table on their back not feeling their legs with synthetic hormones getting pumped into them and they dont understand why they stall out, babys heart rate drops and they end up with an Emergency C/S, and then they sing praises to their doctor for saving their babies life.
Please dont think I am knocking epis,  Ceasarean Sections, all OBGYNs or any of that. They are all amazing advances in medicine and have their place and time. I just wish that people would find out the risks, become educated, and stop telling me how dangerous my way is when they dont understand the risks of the way they are doing it.
And heaven help the next man that tells me that "only an insane woman would give birth naturally" He might discover how insane I truly am.