My comment:
Wow! That doctor is nuts! If we should avoid pain all our lives, let's just all sign up for morphine accounts and enter his Brave New World, shall we?
I gave birth with no pain medication. It was very spiritual for me and I believe my unborn daughter. I did zen meditation for most of the 20 hours (when I wasn't sleeping in the beginning and pushing at the end). I kept my daughter stress free even though the cord was around her neck.
We had a beautiful, quite, stress free, spiritual birth in a hospital. There was some pain, yes, especially with back labor, but my body was made for this job and my focused mind could see us through it and my husband and my doula were there for physical, emotional and spiritual support. The midwife and nurses in the hospital were so supportive and respectful of our choices. CHOICES being the operative word.
This male doctor has not the physical anatomy or mental capabilities to understand my choice. He will simply never know what a birthing woman is going through, and perhaps because of his inherent ignorance and inability he will seek to belittle the power and choices of the birthing woman. Maybe he does this to make her feel unable, inadequate, and powerless so he can take away her power under the guise of sympathy and simply "knowing what is best" which isn't far from sheer domination and abuse of not just one woman but an entire gender. Will he then seek to have us tried as witches?
Two can play your game, Dr. Sanghavi.
