You feel confident in your skills supporting normal physiologic birth and regularly utilize non-pharmacologic comfort measures when
caring for laboring women when it is appropriate to do so.
Pascali - Bonaro said that one of the missions of her documentary is to show how the hospital experience should be improved to help decrease
pain for laboring women.
It's about basic
respect for laboring women as people and patients, not inanimate objects who should submit cheerfully to any pain (such as the chronic pain associated with my C - section scar) and any indignity at the hands of doctors who threaten and abuse their patients.
So the strong binding to its intended receptors, its short half life, its specificity to receptors in the CNS, and its lipophilicity which makes it difficult to cross the placenta all make Fentanyl a good
choice for laboring women and unlikely to have much effect on the baby.
Doctors can be rushed, pressured to get a baby delivered and a woman out of the hospital as soon as possible in order to free up a
bed for another laboring woman.
If you are inclined to think water birth is a great
tool for laboring women, confirmation bias will lead you to think of «all the women and babies who use water birth without a problem.»
That is precisely the role of a
doula for a laboring woman: to serve the laboring mother and help her have her desired birth outcome.