Normal vs. Natural

Typically blood, screaming, pain, stretching and time is incorporated with our thoughts about birth. But the lecture we had on Friday made me realize that the image of births being disgusting and painful only exists because people made it that way. 99% of the people in America choose to give birth in a hospital [Link]. In hospitals, birth is a process that often involves needles, knives and other steel instruments. All of these things factor into the pain and screaming as well as the fearful image of birth. However, birth does not have to be represented by all these images, as shown in the lecture. People can have very pure and natural births in their homes. Birth does not necessarily have to be painful experience that will not be remembered due to the mist of the hospital routines. Instead, birth can be a gratifying experience that will become a lasting memory, and a thought that triggers positive images rather than those of suffrage.
Initially I did not have a point of view about normal versus natural birth. But just like everyone else, my birth plans involved a hospital and a doctor, which would be having a normal birth. For me, it felt like that was something planned by society and the mainstream AWOL. Giving birth in a hospital has almost become a tradition, in America at least. The option of having a natural home birth never occurred to me. But now that I am aware of the benefits of natural births, compared to normal births, I think that natural births would be better. Noticing my change of point of view about births, from not having one, but agreeing to normal births to supporting natural births, I wonder if the rest of America or the world will also go through the same transition, and how. In my opinion I think that if people just break the barrier created by trends, they will realize that there are better alternatives. And when that happens, the percentage of home births will be greater, compared to the current 1%.