Monday, November 24, 2008

Oh those wacky North shore moms

Yesterday, Sunday, I decided to try this prenatal yoga class in the North shore. As we were introducing ourselves (names, due date's, first child...) one of the students introduced herself as a "wrongful Cesarean advocate". (only in the North shore...and maybe NY and California). Well, another student introduced herself and mentioned she had a breach baby. Well, Ms. Anti-Cesarean mentioned that you could do yoga positions to make the baby move into the correct position. Everyone in the class was like "that's great! how do you do that?!" She said that you could like inverted on an ironing board (feet higher than head) or do the cat-cow position.
That felt, to me, like a bunch of bologna. So, I asked my gyno-dad if that is even possible....and, shocker of all shockers, looked at me like I was high and said "No." Okay, so doctors may be a little biased in this situation, but there are two factors that make his position a little more believable. A - he is against cesareans as a first resort...most doctors nowadays will do cesareans before any alternate means of delivery (or so he says) because they are not trained to do anything else when things get complicated...and the law suit happy society scares them into it. B - people don't sue the holistic, yoga-cures-all believers so they can say what they want as long as it makes some rational sense. (she recommended this website, which already sounds wrong: http://www.spinningbabies.com/ or how to do an inversion: http://spinningbabies.blogspot.com/2007/02/how-to-do-inversion.html) If you want to see what other holistic nonsense goes on.
This morning I had another emotional drive to work. Since Olivia can now hear inside the womb, I had some serious imagery going on about her hearing the music in the car. It really hit me this morning and I got teary. I am thinking of sending out a memo to the Office to tread lightly around the hormonal pregnant woman. I think they may know already...

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