No problem! I’m an RN and worked in OB for 27 out of my 32 years of practice. In the beginning of my career most mom’s wanted natural childbirth with as little intervention or medication as necessary in a relaxed “homelike” environment. Then it moved to epidurals, IV Pitocin inductions and other meds, and continual monitoring of the mom …
No problem! I’m an RN and worked in OB for 27 out of my 32 years of practice. In the beginning of my career most mom’s wanted natural childbirth with as little intervention or medication as necessary in a relaxed “homelike” environment. Then it moved to epidurals, IV Pitocin inductions and other meds, and continual monitoring of the mom and baby. It was no longer as rewarding when we had to pay as much or more attention to the machines than to the patient(s). After all we have seen in the healthcare profession and hospitals recently I hope it will swing back the other way.
As I was rising this morning, it came to me that the growth in use of pharma for women in labor may just be that hospital gets to bill for every single "intervention". How our eyes have been opened by the medical fraud of 2020-23!
You corroborate what I thought I was observing---I birthed 1978-82, was prepared to fight for a natural birth, but finding Booth Maternity Hospital in Phila, run by Salvation Army, and just about the first in the country to offer nurse midwives, I didn't need to be aggressive. All 3 were born there. But more recently in my middle school, I noted several of the young teachers expecting to get one kind or another of drug during labor. My 'cohort' fought not to drug the baby before birth, these women seem to be made of tissue paper?
And many of them are impatient and want to choose their delivery day and will beg their doctor to induce them. Although there are some legitimate reasons to be induced, it’s very sad that often the mom is just tired of being pregnant.
Regarding induction, an anecdote from 30-ish years ago:
SIL, wanting to be attended by her chosen OB, who was going out ( on vacation? don't remember), had choice of: wait for baby's time and have another attendant, or, have birth with chosen OB and induction. She chose the latter. Baby was born, oxygen was given, baby was never 'quite right'. To my mind and experience of child, child at 2,3 was retarded. SIL never (2 previous births) had a totally 'natural' childbirth, choosing (as MIL put it) just a little something to get over the pain.
No problem! I’m an RN and worked in OB for 27 out of my 32 years of practice. In the beginning of my career most mom’s wanted natural childbirth with as little intervention or medication as necessary in a relaxed “homelike” environment. Then it moved to epidurals, IV Pitocin inductions and other meds, and continual monitoring of the mom and baby. It was no longer as rewarding when we had to pay as much or more attention to the machines than to the patient(s). After all we have seen in the healthcare profession and hospitals recently I hope it will swing back the other way.
As I was rising this morning, it came to me that the growth in use of pharma for women in labor may just be that hospital gets to bill for every single "intervention". How our eyes have been opened by the medical fraud of 2020-23!
You corroborate what I thought I was observing---I birthed 1978-82, was prepared to fight for a natural birth, but finding Booth Maternity Hospital in Phila, run by Salvation Army, and just about the first in the country to offer nurse midwives, I didn't need to be aggressive. All 3 were born there. But more recently in my middle school, I noted several of the young teachers expecting to get one kind or another of drug during labor. My 'cohort' fought not to drug the baby before birth, these women seem to be made of tissue paper?
Corrigendum: 1978-1987
And many of them are impatient and want to choose their delivery day and will beg their doctor to induce them. Although there are some legitimate reasons to be induced, it’s very sad that often the mom is just tired of being pregnant.
Regarding induction, an anecdote from 30-ish years ago:
SIL, wanting to be attended by her chosen OB, who was going out ( on vacation? don't remember), had choice of: wait for baby's time and have another attendant, or, have birth with chosen OB and induction. She chose the latter. Baby was born, oxygen was given, baby was never 'quite right'. To my mind and experience of child, child at 2,3 was retarded. SIL never (2 previous births) had a totally 'natural' childbirth, choosing (as MIL put it) just a little something to get over the pain.
I believe it will change. Too many are so dissolutioned. Thank you for your expertise.