We were forced into having our son last night in the hospital by my boyfriend's father, because he threatened to call the EMTs as we were waiting out labor at the house until it was time to check into our cabin rental. We claimed to have a midwife, but he insisted on calling her, and then called the two midwives in our area to verify that they did not accept Medicaid. We would have lied and claimed to be driving to the hospital, but he FOLLOWED us, and we were afraid he would call child services. He also called my mother at work and I had to attempt to explain to her during full blown labor, as she was CRYING hysterically, that unassisted childbirth was an educated decision and I was doing what I felt was best for MY child. She of course, would not listen to reason, which is exactly why we had not informed her, or anyone else, of our plans. Luckily I was fully dilated when we reached the hospital and avoided all pain medication. Unfortunately, they did not respect our wishes for delayed cord cutting (they claimed it had stopped pulsing moments after the birth and that somehow not clamping and cutting was dangerous?!) even when we had told them it was a religious based request. There goes our lotus birth. The intensity of which he cried when they cut his cord was heart wrenching. I'm
pretty upset with all the unnecessary procedures they've performed (regardless of our protests, because such testing is required by their policies) especially considering he was born with an Apgar score of 9. A newborn should never
spend their first four hours alone in a nursery. It's been about 11 hours and I
have still yet to get him to nurse. They only allowed us fifteen minutes to initiate nursing before taking him to the nursery. They've been trying to take
him back periodically since they brought him back to us under the pretense of "you need to rest." I need to be left alone with my family! It doesn't help that we had pre-paid for a cabin for three days, and will now be baby mooning, if you can call it that, in a medical instition instead.
pretty upset with all the unnecessary procedures they've performed (regardless of our protests, because such testing is required by their policies) especially considering he was born with an Apgar score of 9. A newborn should never
spend their first four hours alone in a nursery. It's been about 11 hours and I
have still yet to get him to nurse. They only allowed us fifteen minutes to initiate nursing before taking him to the nursery. They've been trying to take
him back periodically since they brought him back to us under the pretense of "you need to rest." I need to be left alone with my family! It doesn't help that we had pre-paid for a cabin for three days, and will now be baby mooning, if you can call it that, in a medical instition instead.
I am crying for you. I would be so mad at bf's dad for that! No woman should have to deal with that 
Sorry things didn't go as expected. But congrats on an unmedicated mostly intervention free birth, and congrats on your new little one.
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