I feel that women
and their partners do much better with privacy
and intimacy during the
birth process
and that, my role is to sometimes protect that privacy
and intimacy first of all by educating them that that might be really important
and to talk about you know the effect both
positive and negative about um, support during that time can be or even just letting people know hey, we're in
labour, the Facebook kind of thing but you know keep it quiet, keep it down, don't fritter the energy away by drawing other people to it or drawing the expectation that something's happening rather than just letting something evolve... I think guarding the space by keeping the space as calm
and quiet
and private as possible is key
and giving people tools to do that during the prenatal time to deal with over eager family members or friends.
A study by Hildingsson et al. (2011) found that
labour induction was associated with a less
positive birth experience,
and women who were induced were more likely to be frightened that their baby would be damaged during
birth.
Hiring a house in order to be in the catchment for DOMINO homebirth, asking for a new health care professional in
labour, changing hospitals, challenging policy — women are becoming more proactive in their approach of navigating the system in order to ensure that they get the most out of their maternity care
and have a healthy
positive birth experience.