Appendix A

50 Further Reasons Not to Have Your Baby in a Hospital

(The below list is elaborated in

Spontaneous Creation:

101 Reasons Not to Have Your Baby in a Hospital, Vol. 2,

to be published in 2008)

52 You don't want to experience posttraumatic stress disorder.

53 You want the gold standard of care for your baby.

54 You want the gold standard of care for yourself.

55 You are a healthy woman.

56 You are not a healthy woman.

57 You don't want your pubic area shaved.

58 You don't want an enema.

59 You don't want unnecessary vaginal exams.

60 You don't want an IV.

61 You don't want a catheter.

62 You don't want your labor artificially induced.

63 You don't want amniotomy.

64 You don't want to be hooked up to an electronic fetal monitor.

65 You don't want to be a guinea pig.

66 You don't want to be dehumanized.

67 You don't want your baby washed directly after birth.

68 You don't want silver nitrate, etc., put in your baby's eyes.

69 You don't want your baby to receive a hepatitis B vaccination.

70 You don't want your baby to receive a vitamin K shot.

71 You don't want your baby to be given a painful heelstick test.

72 You don't want your baby to be exposed to hospital germs.

73 You don't want to be exposed to hospital germs.

74 You don't want your baby's umbilical cord cut too soon.

75 You don't want your baby to suffer from respiratory distress.

76 You don't want your baby to be brain damaged.

77 You don't want your baby boy to be circumcised.

78 You don't want your baby switched with someone else's.

79 You don't want your baby to be abducted.

80 You don't want to endorse the machinery of holocaust.

81 You don't want your child to become a drug addict.

82 You don't want your child to become a criminal.

83 You don't want your child to become violent.

84 You don't want your child to become a schizophrenic.

85 You don't want your child to become a victim of child abuse.

86 You don't want your child to commit suicide.

87 You don't want your baby to die from SIDS.

88 You want to find out who you are.

89 You want to be a confident mother.

90 You want to breastfeed your baby.

91 You don't want your breasts to be overdistended.

92 You don't want to have a preterm baby.

93 You don't want your preterm baby to die.

94 You love the kangaroo in you.

95 You don't want to feel afraid.

96 You don't want to feel rushed.

97 You don't want to feel raped.

98 You don't want to pay more for less.

99 You don't want to stay extra days in the hospital.

100 You don't want to eat hospital food.

101 You'd rather be shopping.