Here’s a note that I sent to a friend who is concerned about having a natural childbirth. I’m pretty passionate about this sort of thing so I wanted to share this here too.
Well, where to begin…I personally have two friends who had their membranes stripped and now look back on it in regret. They both ended up with very long labors and one ended up with a C-section because after over 50 hours of labor she still was not dilated enough. The other one did have a natural birth, but only after many, many hours of labor. They told me that they think their extraordinary long labors were due to them having their membranes stripped. Continue reading