Sometimes,
a woman writes a birth plan and literally get laughed at in the hospital.
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.
No matter what is
written on her
birth plan, a
woman in labour is entitled to change her mind.
A
birth plan is a
written agreement between a
woman and her care provider.
Because of these benefits, many
women find that hiring a doula can be far more helpful than
writing a
birth plan when it comes to achieving the
birth experience they want.
Like many pregnant
women, I
wrote a detailed personalized
birth plan just like our
birth class instructor taught us.
Over the past years, we've
written our own
birth plans for our own
birth experiences, helped
women write theirs in our childbirth education classes, and guided our doula clients in crafting their
birth plans.
«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.
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.