Comments on: What Childbirth has Taught Me http://frickchen.auroralux.net/2006/08/10/what-childbirth-has-taught-me/ Adventures in Parenting Wed, 07 May 2008 05:39:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: frank http://frickchen.auroralux.net/2006/08/10/what-childbirth-has-taught-me/comment-page-1/#comment-130 frank Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:05:55 +0000 http://frickchen.auroralux.net/2006/08/10/what-childbirth-has-taught-me/#comment-130 I have several family, friends, and coworkers who've had babies in the last few months. I know for sure that all but one of them have had cesarean sections, and I'm not sure about that last one because I haven't asked. I read the list of questions we can ask to help us decide about drugs and procedures at the next labor, and I think they are questions that we ought to think about asking in detail before we choose who's got medical responsibility for the delivery. For example, if we knew then what we know now, we might not have chosen an obgyn who would break your water and put you on a pitocin drip after a certain amount of time, or at a certain time of day. I have several family, friends, and coworkers who’ve had babies in the last few months. I know for sure that all but one of them have had cesarean sections, and I’m not sure about that last one because I haven’t asked.

I read the list of questions we can ask to help us decide about drugs and procedures at the next labor, and I think they are questions that we ought to think about asking in detail before we choose who’s got medical responsibility for the delivery. For example, if we knew then what we know now, we might not have chosen an obgyn who would break your water and put you on a pitocin drip after a certain amount of time, or at a certain time of day.

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