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I wonder how much has been discussed or covered in terms of Oregon's fascinating, disturbing and largely ignored history of racism, racial discrimination, racist policy/legislation, and racially motived crimes etc.  I was reminded of this because of the way that chu(?)'s observation about the sign on the Deschutte's River was handled as a topic about hand-made signs when there could be a far more significant discussion about Oregon's history of race and violence.

Thanks!

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My mother almost died in the hospital when I was born because the OB-GYN had never seen a non-medicated birth and wanted the placenta to come out on his timetable.  He massage my mother's abdomen and she hemoraged and almost died.  My younger siblings were both born at home with a nurse midwife in a healthy non-traumatic way.

I am looking to have my first child in the next few years and I only hope that I can find a midwife and a conventional practitioner (who fundamentally and meaningfully respect each other's practices) to support the birth of my child.  I still feel insensed that my mother was treated in this way, and even with the most liberal conventionally trained practitioners, like your guest, there is still a tone of standardization and right and wrong and no really meaningful engagement with the individual mother's/family's/baby's needs.  We are just statistics and patients. I want to be a mother.

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