Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The nerve

By now, I think we all know who The Mama Tao is. She is the crunchiest of all crunchies. Some of the things posted, you have to wonder, "Is this chick for real?". The messed up thing is that this isn't just one blogger. This is an entire group that is promoting very dangerous and just purely stupid advice! I usually just let things/bloggers go and pay them no mind. However, after my last blog, one of Mama Tao's minions decided to attack all of us homebirth loss moms and it's ridiculous. Why can't we speak up??? She encourages people to treat us badly. We are good enough to support until we say that the birth location had anything to do with it!

8 comments:

Tracey said...

I don't know the word that is appropriate to use but her blog isn't for real. She (I think) believes the opposite of what she is saying and is trying to outdo the crunchies in terms of crunchness. I know it is hard but if you read some of her other stuff she suggests that instead of holistic medicine eat your babies poo to cure PPD. She is like Dr.Amy on steroids. She is showing the crunchie things in a tongue in cheek manner (I think).

Cal said...

Yes, it is extreme satire.

Tracey said...

Satire...thank you Cal!

Jade Jymson said...

How very very dare you!

Mama Sarita said...

I don't understand why the two communities continuously feel the need to berate and attack each other. Everyone understands how tragic the loss of a baby is, no one is trying to take that away from anyone. Equally, no one is trying to promote any practice that would ever immediately put a baby in harms way. It becomes a bit distracting when either side can't let others have their opinions on how they want to birth and realize there is no right or wrong. There is no statistic that will prove either side victorious. It’s a personal choice. And, calling people stupid and dangerous for a decision they have made that, in reality, poses just the same risks as “the other side,” is sad. No one is more right than the other, period. Death happens, in hospitals, at home, uninformed, informed, with intervention, without intervention. It is really unfortunate that people can't let other people think for themselves, or have their own opinion about things without someone else calling them names. Birth isn't supposed to be vicious and cruel.

Mama Sarita said...

I might have picked the wrong post to comment on, mama tao is nuts, but I think you get where I am coming from.

ccc said...

I guess I did not read all of Mama tao's posts. I took a glance at some of the titles and I erronously thought some of her "natural" parenting techniques were like mine. But, I did not delve further to find out that eating baby poo helps PPD. I retract what I said in the above comment!!

tesslouise said...

It is satire. It is not meant to be taken seriously, any more than the Onion is.

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