Wisdom and Births

What your pregnancy and birth care provider believes about birth WILL directly influence your birth experience. Whether it is not feeling supported because your doctor doesn't believe women can give birth without intervention; having your trust in yourself, your body and your baby undermined because the doctor is constantly searching for a sign of something wrong with the pregnancy or labor; or, the unhelpful pressure to just accept the epidural, or schedule the induction, you've waited too long for that baby (and they have a vacation coming up). An Obstetrician is trained as a surgeon. Trained to handle complications and emergencies during pregnancy and birth. ...but the majority of births will occur without complication. So what good does it do to have the majority of women attended and cared for by a surgeon? Especially a surgeon who doesn't believe birth works, without their interventions, most of the time!? It does us absolutely NO GOOD. In fact, it is the opposit...

I know I haven't contributed to the greater realm of internet knowledge in the past many months, but here is something I was just inspired to put together after seeing the Listening to Mothers Survey III results today! Ultrasounds have been a point of concern for me for a number of years. The lack of research into how ultrasound waves may effect the developing prenate gives me reason to shy away from them.With the concerns voiced around the internet and ACOG 's own stance on "nonmedical" ultrasounds leaves me questioning the wide-scale, routine, over-use of yet another maternity intervention. ... then when the listening to mothers survey III was released and I saw that almost 50% (HALF!) of women are receiving 4 or more ultrasounds!! WHY!?!? I am of the opinion that a healthy pregnancy and mother have no need for an ultrasound - seeing as how cuurent research doesn't support routine ultrasounds and since we don't have conclusive data to demonstrate that even ...