Posts Tagged ‘giving birth in Eastern European hospitals’

• Birth stories from Eastern Europe

  Date: 2010.12.13 | Category: Birth | Response: 3

  Do you think the “dark old days” of childbirth are over, and are you relieved to live in the 21st century, even if you might not agree with many aspects of current obstetric practice? I know I would – if it wasn’t for the fact that my East European country of residence got stuck somewhere in the 1950s. Maternity hospitals are so dreadful that hearing women’s stories about giving birth sound more like convicts’ stories of their time in prison.

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• Natural birth in Eastern Europe?

  Date: 2010.11.07 | Category: Hospital Birth | Response: 4

  Were you shocked by the state of the United States maternity system after watching the business of being born, or after giving birth in a hospital yourself? I wanted to share this birth story from one mama who visits the same online parents’ message board that I do. She posted her story in the section “Natural childbirth experiences”. Her story is a typical one. Read on to see for yourself what it is like to have a “natural birth” in an Eastern European Labor and Delivery hospital.

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