The Birthing Mother and the Birthing Baby

The mother and baby both are owned by the discourse. No seems to be asking either of them how they feel or what they need. The urge towards natural birthing may be ted in more than a personal desire for particular sematic experience. It may equally be about participating, consciously or not, in a politicized process that seeks to take birthing back from standardized medicine. Viewed this way, the split between natural and unnatural becomes even more charged,. seeming to express a divide between feminist and patriarchal. For how has the intervention been made into a symbol of oppression? How does a caesarian birth or a birth with epidural make some of us feel as if wewere failing to free