As we have already told you, a couple of days ago, the writer, philosopher and presenter Fernando Sánchez Dragó has revolutionized Twitter for broadcasting his wife's home birth through the social network.
Home birth is still seen as an extravagance, typical of eccentric characters like Sánchez Dragó and his wife, but the truth is that there are many anonymous women who give birth in the privacy of their home. It is also true that not all broadcast with live photos on social networks making it a trending topic.
So much stir has called me to make a reflection: Why the home birth of the wife of Sánchez Dragó has generated so much controversy?. Was it because of the character, that already generates controversy, whatever he does? Could it have been because it was a retransmission with photos of a home birth, a mode of delivery that is not widely used? Or beyond that, because of the little connection that society has today with something as natural as a birth?
A controversial character
The truth that Sánchez Dragó is not holy of my devotion, and judging by the comments of Twitter, nor of many. It's from those characters that generates sympathy or dislike, without half measures. That may have contributed to the social network exploding in comments of all kinds while he witnessed the birth of his fourth child.
Many comments have criticized his lack of humility and his own desire for prominence above that of the true protagonists: his wife and son.
On the other hand, what happens when a parent is aware of other needs such as sending messages, taking pictures or making a video of the birth is that it's not what it has to be in that special moment, which is to accompany and support his wife, and receive his son.
An intimate moment
The birth of a child is a very special time for the family. It must be an intimate and private moment, of a very intense mother-father-son connection, in which everyone else has plenty. For a woman it is a brutal moment of absolute vulnerability in which it must be contained and not exposed to exhibitionism.
What is the motivation that makes the event public and share it with strangers What do you know in advance that they will say about it?
Why is a natural birth so striking?
Beyond who he is and his longing for prominence or not, the really deep thing about this is why a natural birth attracts so much attention.
Why are pictures of a home birth so provocative? It is a natural act that happens in the privacy of many homes, more and more, but I believe that society is asleep to human nature that seeing a home birth dislodges us.
Because we are very far from the natural, that is why it surprises us so much, I think that that is basically the reason why the home birth of the wife of Sánchez Dragó has generated so much controversy.
