As I am reading this, all I can envision is a comatose person on life support. Are our bodies really so incompetent and useless that we've turned something like child birth into an episode of ER? Normal childbirth is not an emergency. We do not need to be wheeled into a delivery room via a wheel chair or gurney and hooked up to tons of machines just so that our body can open up and push out a little baby. We are not sick, broken, or incapable of this natural process.
The weird thing is, though I am not a fan of epidurals (and do not understand why woman walk into hospitals demanding them the minute they get there without even feeling labor in the first place), is that I do not think "incompetence" or "weak" when someone tells me that they had an epidural. Reading this part of this particular paragraph leads me to visions of people incompetent of living without electronic help, but hearing a woman say they had one does not have the same effect.
I think you can do it with out an epidural. There are times that it hurts. There are times where you think that it is so bad that you cannot take it any longer. Those times are short lived. Those times are worth the precious life that you get out of the whole experience. This is the way that nature intended your baby to be born.
"By the time you are hooked up to an IV, an oxytocin delivery pump, a fetal monitor, an automated blood pressure cuff, an epidural pump, and have a bladder catheter, what was a perfectly normal labor has been transformed into a high-tech event. This has profound consequences for how you view yourself and your labor and how your partner, other support people, and medical caregivers perceive you and your labor as well."
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