"Giving birth is one of the most difficult processes a human body can experience. Until recent decades, the topic of pregnancy was considered taboo, causing many moms to not discuss their birth experiences. Today, however, more parents are opening up about just how difficult giving birth was in the 1960s... That's why when Redditor u/kettlecornQT asked, "Women who gave birth in the '60s, what was it like?" both moms themselves and their adult children shared how giving birth has (thankfully) changed in recent decades."
"I was born in '68. Induction wasn't a thing, as the popular thinking was that the baby would come when it was time. My mom's due date was mid-April, yet I was born the last week of May. She told me she had to get weekly blood tests to make sure everything was okay, which confused me at first, until I figured out it was due to RH incompatibility. Nowadays, this is solved by a single injection, but it apparently wasn't available then."
Many births in the 1960s occurred with minimal medical intervention; inductions were uncommon and parents waited for spontaneous labor. Routine prenatal care sometimes included weekly blood tests to monitor Rh incompatibility, which lacked today’s Rho(D) immune globulin remedy, increasing fetal risk. Economic and emotional precautions led some parents to delay preparing for newborns. Teaching hospitals handled complicated deliveries that might have been life-threatening otherwise. Prior surgeries could mask labor pain, complicating delivery detection. Social taboos around pregnancy limited sharing of traumatic birth experiences, leaving many women isolated during and after childbirth.
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