Birth Plan What have you put in your Birth Plan? Gee, there seems to be so many things each of us wants or doesn’t want for our baby’s birth. You, like me, know what we want at our baby’s birth. At least we have an image in our head about the ideal birth we’d like. As...
LOOKING FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES: Part #2 During Follow-Your-Doctor’s-Orders trend there were both mothers, fathers and birth professionals who were frustrated with how this natural and normal phase of women’s lives became so medical. Without a doubt...
LOOKING FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES: Part #1 When we look at birth (in the general) there is the perspective of the families having a baby and a perspective from the care providers. FOLLOW-YOUR-DOCTOR’S ORDER TREND: What did women experience under the...
LOOKING FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES: Part #3 When you think back on all the changes that have occurred in childbirth, you have to ask why a successful Skills-based approach did not continue to evolve alongside the desire for a Choice-based one. There are so many...
Growing a Skills-based approach to all pregnancies and every birth requires us all to understand the pros and cons of the present Choice-based childbirth trend. As our modern societies were moving past Follow-your-doctor’s-order childbirth trend, birth advocates...
For the past 40 years expectant parents have been told to make a Birth Plan. This is sort of like a wish list of what you want and don’t want happen on the ‘Big Day’. Of course there are factors that influence the ability to do that whether about your health, doctor... 