Normalizing Birth: Understanding the True Risks for Pregnancy and Birth Complications
This is an awesome article that puts the risks in true perspective. Read it here:
Normalizing Birth: Understanding the True Risks for Pregnancy and Birth Complications
Using everyday language like "certain" "likely" "rare" it describes the risks of still birth due to post-dates, the risk of GBS infection in babies whose mothers did not get antibiotics, and the risks of c/section.
I know some people still say "1%, or not risk if you are the 1% it doesn’t matter how small the risk." While this is true you must put it in perspective; you are more likely to die in your car going to work today than to die or have your child die or be injured in childbirth. And you drive your car EVERYDAY!
