You are having your first baby and you are scared but excited at the same time. You have done everything right. You read the books, asked all the right questions, ate healthy, exercised, avoided all the bad stuff, created a birth plan, discussed your concerns and wishes with your healthcare provider whom you felt you could trust and understood your needs…..And then you get to the hospital….. and you meet a doctor or certified nurse midwife that you don’t know very well or have never met at all. What do you do? What would you do?

Well this happened to me and I did not know what to do or what really to expect when I got to the hospital except that they were going to care for me and by baby right? What if your doctor or cnm (certified nurse midwife) has more than one patient that comes in to deliver right after you have arrived? Now there are multiple patients to monitor. How will they do it? Do you think they want to do what is best for your or easy for them? Read my account of my first birth on my website at www.blissfulbirthingandbeyond.com. Find out how a normal labor and birth can easily be mismanaged and led down the road to cesarean section, leaving a woman to think that she failed, her body does not work and she failed her baby too. Educate yourself before you go. The more you know, the more options you have. Have your best birth by being fully informed. Know your rights as a Childbearing Woman!

See: The Rights of Childbearing Women @ www.childbirthconnection.org/rights

 


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    I was born in NYC and grew up in NYC, Philadelphia and New England. I moved back to NYC after studying art at the Philadelphia College of Art for 2 yrs. where I met my husband Rolf when I was 20. We have been married for 34 years.  We have 2 sons, Cameron 29, and Tyler 21.  I finished my Bachelor's Degree in 1990 in Hotel Restaurant Management and Food Journalism at the city University of NY. By the time I graduated I'd  had Tyler who had just turned 1 years old. My decision to become a Doula was prompted by my personal childbirth experiences, having had a C-Section due to hospital interventions and then a VBAC 8 years later. My passion is to serve as an inspiration and support to all women during pregnancy and labor and especially for those women who want to achieve a natural vaginal birth after cesarean. I love to travel, walks on the beach, lying on the beach, all kinds of music, good food, cooking, movies, reading, painting, knitting writing, creating, and developing myself to be the best I can be.