To those nurses, women
who write birth plans are inflexible, don't understand the unpredictable nature of birth, and want a natural birth even if it costs her or her baby their safety or health.
But firstly,
who wrote a birth plan, and who actually had any of it it followed?
Not exact matches
Summer
who writes at Wired for Noise says signs like this one and stories like the lack of choice with regard to our reproductive health and doctors» personal «
birth plans» make her sometimes think Doctors Hate Women.
«What gave me the heads up on hospital interference was Dr. Marsden Wagner (formerly of
WHO) who wrote a great book:» Creating Your Birth Pl
WHO)
who wrote a great book:» Creating Your Birth Pl
who wrote a great book:» Creating Your
Birth Plan.
When
writing your cesarean
birth plan, you can choose whether to elect a c - section ahead of time,
who you want in the room with you and whether you want any medical students in the room with you.
«Compared with women
who planned to
birth in hospital, women
who planned to
birth at home underwent fewer obstetrical interventions, were more likely to have a spontaneous vaginal
birth and were more likely to be exclusively breastfeeding at 3 and 10 days after delivery,»
write the authors.
But, as I
wrote my
birth story, I was able to lose that anger, and instead, speak hope for other moms
who might not have the perfect
birth they
planned.
Now, if they were
planning a
birth center
birth and unplanned, the baby came really quickly, usually, they'll still allow us to
write a letter because we had been you know, we have knowledge of the family and we were providing care all through the pregnancy so we knew this mom and we took care of her immediately after the
birth, but if that's not the case and a family just has an unassisted
birth, they definitely need two people
who witness the
birth to go with them or a letter from someone
who witnesses the
birth.