Wasn't pregnancy magical and natural and aNcEsTrAl and not at all a medical event?
She really should go to the doctor and listen to them but she won't.
I gasped out loud reading this story post.
It's terrifying for this unborn baby how determined she is to resist any amount of support, medical or otherwise. Sure, okay - you don't want to treat pregnancy like a 'medical event', but you have to acknowledge on at least SOME level that being pregnant means your body is in a different physical state and you have to make SOME adjustments to your behavior and lifestyle, as a result. She insists on maintaining all of her pre-pregnancy behaviors, foods, rituals, etc, even while publicly boasting on a DAILY basis about how uncomfortable and unwell she feels.
Same as with your veganism bullshit, Rakel, literally no one CARES how you choose to give birth, but making it seem like everyone who exists that isn't up your ass with praise and support is out to get you and your precious unborn baby is next-level insanity. And the absolute worst part is that the only ones who will suffer any direct consequences from her poor decisions are her and her baby.
With that said, she is clearly attempting to influence loads of other women to go the same route that she is, which will inevitably endanger the life/lives of others and their unborn children.
She is dead-set on creating the narrative that any western medical intervention in pregnancy or birth is traumatizing, forceful, dangerous and wrong.
Where is there space for the millions of people who have given birth in hospitals and medical settings and had a good or (gasp!) even GREAT experience, felt supported by their team, and didn't feel traumatized by the entire thing??
I do not understand how ANYONE puts up with this lady at this point.
At this point, my vote is to call the new thread Rakel Brathen - Ancestral Asshole