Jesus
If anything is going to traumatise a child, it’s sitting inches away from her Mum’s minge, watching her make weird swirly patterns with her menstrual blood.
She dresses it up like it’s some kind of beautiful ritual, but she’s taken photos of it & put it on social media, instantly reducing it to an attention-seeking post, designed to shock & divide opinion (which she secretly enjoys).
Honestly, this is not empowering. My period has never made me feel dirty. It’s just something I put up with every month. If I had a daughter, there is NO WAY I’d expose myself to her this way. It’s actually hugely inappropriate & fucked up. If she was in the UK, social services would be paying her a visit. And she knows it.
What a
bleep.
But possibly not as much of a
bleep as Bauhauswife. She reminds me of Ellie a bit. In that, she doesn’t know what she doesn’t know. It’s lovely that she’s managed to home birth a small army of babies with no complications, it really is. But hospital births are not the ‘dark occult rituals’ she thinks they are. She’s just another person who demonises allopathic medicine, despite having no training or clinical experience on which to base her views. In the UK, a hospital delivery will be midwifery led, so long as it’s straightforward. Want to deliver in the water with whale music? No problem. NO midwife wants a woman in her care to have an intervention she doesn’t need.
Midwives love the autonomy a straightforward labour allows them AND women. Midwives are advocates for women-centred care. A lot of women simply cannot deliver this way though. In this past week alone, I’ve attended an elective c-section for placenta acretta & two pre-term twin deliveries where at least one twin was a transverse lie (cannot safely deliver vaginally). Where would those babies be without obstetric care, Yolande?
Dead. That’s where.