Beautiful, Mama. I have been so blessed to have 4 amazing, powerful, drug-free water births at home. With my third, my placenta retained. After about an hour, we decided that we would try a shot of pitocin to try to loosen it up. The cramping from that stuff was horrible. It's terrible, nasty shit. Can't imagine doing actual labor with it.
Thanks for raising awareness about this important issue. I included it in the first article I wrote about smashing the patriarchy. Unnecessary birth intervention is a very basic violation of a woman's - and a baby's - body. And it's very much a patriarchal power play.