Good afternoon, friends!
Alice, I was interested in a painless childbirth.
In Japan it seems very rare.
Why is it common inCanada or USA?
If my doctor had given that method, I could have chosen it.
"Midwife" is a new word for me.
Thank you, Alice.
My summer holiday starts tomorrow and I feel relieved now.
When I began my work six months ago, I recognized a new fact.
Words of thanks. It must encourage me.
In my household, we hardly say 'thank you' from our heart each other.
I think it is my failure.
Thank you so much, friends, and my family.
See you, tomorrow!
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Dear Cherry and friends
Why is painless childbirth common in North America? Well, I have a similar question. I wonder why it isn't common in Japan. Perhaps, North American doctors are more practical than Japanese doctors. Japanese doctors tend to consider ethical issues carefully. Endurance may not be an ethical matter, but at least it's valued as virtue. I think some doctors and mothers believe that mothers should get through actual pain when they give birth. It is as if the pain strengthens the tie between mother and her baby or as if the pain gives mother special privilege only mothers can get. Probably, Japanese doctors' attitude toward life and childbirth is reflecting such sentiment.
July 20, 2007 9:00 JST
Dear Cherry and friends
I am for Alice’s idea about the way of painful Japanese delivery. Women themselves are proud of their experiences of birth pangs and it is believed the pain would build up the sense of their own child and strengthen the tie between a mother and a child, leading to maternal instinct. But I wonder whether we have only less maternal affection without the pain? I gave birth through Caesarean section in the anesthetized condition. So I didn’t experienced labor pains. Of course I hate any kind of pain including tooth ache and head ache and birth pain. However, birth pain is not come from a disease. So, I don’t know it is good to kill the pain by artificial means. The natural and the artificial are at odds in every fields.
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