Childbirth Partnerships/Continuity Of Care … Childbirth Series #34
Continuity of Care bumps into Maternity Partnership but these two things are different.
Continuity of Care is a birth provider who will attend you during pregnancy and your birth and sometimes after your birth.
Partnership Maternity Model may or may not include Continuity of Care. The Partnership Model is based on you leading your maternity care via your ‘choices’ and being involved in ‘informed consent’.
Both of these have benefits and draw-backs. They both sound wonderful but ideas have to be put into actions. Actions lead to results or goals.
The goals of Continuity of Care is that a pregnant woman has the same care provider throughout her pregnancy and birth. Great idea. What happens if …. ?
The goals of the Partnership Model of Care is for women to control their maternity care based on a belief that ‘women know what they want at their birth’ and apparently birth providers have a responsibility to give women the birth wanted. Is that a good idea? Is that possible? Do the vast majority of women either know what they want or how to navigate their maternity health care?
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