This week's cover of InTouch Weekly is FABULOUS.

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An excerpt from the article:

Though raising an infant has been challenging, Bristol has the unconditional love and support of her family — especially her mother, Sarah Palin. After all, no one can better understand the complicated decision to have a baby under difficult circumstances. Just a year earlier, at the age of 44, Sarah carried her son Trig to term, even though she was told during a sonogram that he would be born with Down syndrome. Now, the mother and daughter are sharing a unique experience— raising baby boys together under the same roof.

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I've heard of childbirth at home, but with someone attending. This seems to be different?

One of my dear friends, in 2008, had her baby at her home. It was her fifth birth, and she was 28. Her husband was present, as was their son, who was two at the time. (Her three older children live with their father - nasty custody battle between two countries, but I digress.) She labored for about three hours and gave birth to an eleven-pound baby boy. No doctor screaming for a C-section. No nurse making her lie on her back. No bright hospital lights and sterile hospital room. Peace, quiet, and love. Not ideal for everybody, of course, but for those who have studied and educated themselves and know first-aid and infant CPR etc in the event of any complications, for those who are not high-risk, for those who are aware of their limitations and will consent to travel to a nearby hospital when complications present, it's not a bad thing. It's how I'll be having my next child.

The rest of your point... yeah, that was pretty much MY point. It's really nice being able to turn someone's argument against them. I keep saying that if I ever marry someone who is even slightly pro-choice, I'll be more than happy to shove the MY BODY MY CHOICE! argument back in their face when it comes to dictating how and where I give birth. You know, when the whole I'M PUSHING A WATERMELON OUT A HOLE THE SIZE OF A GRAPE AND I'M GONNA BE THE ONE WHO CALLS THE SHOTS HERE! argument doesn't fly.

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Whoa, 11 pounds!

::feels woozy::

I'm all for that more natural approach. Of course, I am also thankful for technology and medical advances, but it does seem the modern world has made childbirth out to be some kind of abnormal condition, instead of the natural event that it is.

11 pounds. Meep.