Posts by LizD

There's the usual positional things to help the baby move (hands-and-knees, lying on sides on the couch when reading or watching TV), and you'll be working with your chiropractor, and it's early; you have time for baby to move. But I...

Hospital staff will not be held liable for anything they do that they feel is saving a life, whether you consent or not. This may be morally wrong and legally questionable but it's what those of us "in the biz" have seen time...

Quote: Originally Posted by JessicaE    Quote: Originally Posted by LizD  Cytotec is really only used now for PP bleeding, not induction, and for things like this you can simply...

I am sorry to sound so dour. But I do not work in a big busy high-risk center, I work in a birth center much like you describe. We have the lowest C-section rate in the area, LDRP rooms and our own OR/PACU, we offer waterbirth, we...

I was a doula and it never entered my head to have one at my own birthing. :) My midwife brought two other licensed midwives to assist her, and my neighbor, a lay midwife, came to keep my older child company. I'm also a...

I have to second the comment/s that it's far too long. I am an OB nurse and our childbirth center really does try to do a lot of these things as the standard of care...but the nurses still laugh at and hoot over birth plans at the...

I'm a nurse in a small community hospital's Childbirth Center. I love that the midwives first assist. It preserves continuity of care and seems to uphold respect for the midwife as a medical professional. I see a far more collegial...

Quote: Originally Posted by ANewDoula So for those of you who have a ADN, did you attend a local community college? Thanks Jes Yes, and it was an excellent experience. Shop carefully, though, because...

Thanks for taking the time to write while supporting your FIL and family. I hope his health improves soon.

What a nuisance that we have to plan against all those adversarial eventualities. I remembered a few more suggestions my mw had for the hibiclens wash- once or twice a day was the actual internal washing, and another idea was to lie...