My wife really enjoyed the experience. We had a home birth. No epidural. Two kids.
It is a life changing experience for both wife and husband. It's part of life. Life isn't a video game. It's not a synthetic experience. Some people may prefer to be a brain in a jar hooked to some wires but then where would they put the diamond ring? :-)
My wife is a zealot in the anti home birth holy war so I'm going to just express my happiness that yours found it enjoyable and slowly walk away from the keyboard.
yeah, usually there are provoking stories on both side. I work in a radiology department that has a strong obstetric focus, and obviously that leads to a particular view. I hope her reasons don't have too much trauma behind them, but suspect they do.
Driving a car is a lot more dangerous than birth. And most of us do that.
But, yes, giving birth can involve complications.
This is a poor statement I feel. How is it more dangerous? You drive once, and have a baby once, one for once the giving birth is vastly more dangerous.
Historical average death rate for the mother alone would approach 10%, and in 3rd world countries, it is still over 1%. For driving the death rate is something like 20 per 100,000, or as a better measure, something number of tens or hundreds of millions of KM of driving per death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal_death
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re...
Yeah, it's "magical" and whatnot, but my wife would rather be water-boarded than be pregnant again.