To the Editor:
I’ve found that home birth, like birth without drugs, is usually more about the mother than the baby. Most of the women I have met who have had one or both of those experiences preach about it like a revivalist minister. Good for them, but I wish they’d shut up. Just because it’s O.K. for them doesn’t mean that every woman should do it, or even want to do it. It’s like the breast-feeding tyrants who nurse until their children are practically teenagers. If that’s what you want, do it. But please stop denigrating women who choose something else. Bottle feeding doesn’t make for a bad mother, any more than hospital birth does. Choose what you want, do it and keep it to yourself, please.
LINDA PORTER
Seattle
Note from KBJ: Tell us how you really feel, Linda.
