Women's Decision-Making And Factors Affecting Their Choice Of ...

nolope: olzau, I'LL give uou a fi.ne exampLe, 1,s vuu fri-enci's UttLe bou is,
vow 1,s about three months oLd...she phoned the midwife and the midwife
arrived, and thefrt the second ii,tislwife arrived. And she was stood in her
Izitchevi., having a cup of coffee and a cigarette ElsiughingJ and the 14,ti,o{wi,fe
said, uou Izikow, what are uou truing to do to that babu, smolz,e it out? Avo
thee were Le Lcfughing jolzing? Alkol she said to the vul.dwife, I thi.vtlz
gang to start pushing" and theu got her washing up bowl, V.VR. because she was
stood over the l'zitchen siniz at the time and she got a wAslii-no 1,9 bowl and she
put it Like between her Legs? And she said within Ulu 5 or lo vuinutes, a couple
of pushes and the babu was out. And she sai,d the experience. I mean she'd had
four cliildrevi., AAA she said the experience, uOU coulstiAft, Olt IR,LAZW, UDv got to
be there and to have gone through ft. she said it's bliss... she said it's Lovelu,
she saidi don't actuallu feel lilze I've been through anuthing...she said it's just
unbelievable, she said because uou're so relaxed it's so qui,clz. After that
happened, I thought that was defunItelu it for me. [Laughing] uoi KYLOW, 'VV.
not sauing that mine will be Like anuthing near like hers.
Ponlzana: I had Lots of friends tallzivtg to vue, one of them is a doctor,
she has had six bous and theu've all been hospital births. ALL truing to talk me
out of having a liowte birth, so, one of them, A fri-evtot of mine, she's Viad three
.ids, the first one and the third one were hospital births. she said the nicest
birth was the one at home. It was the owe that she could have paio, relief and
didn't require it, she just felt completelu happu, relaxed about it all, she said for
some reason uou wALIR, through the hospitcil doors uou're all tensed up and
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