1. My doctor wasn't going to be with me during labor. Doctors don't labor-sit.
2. My birth plan was most likely going to be ignored.
3. Nurses and doctors prefer an epiduralized patient for a number of reasons.
4. Resident doctors at university hospitals need to practice of lot of procedures that most
women don't need and that I am considered fodder for "practice."
5. Hospitals routinely under staff ALL nursing units in order to save money.
6. Doctors practice obstetrics the way they were taught. No matter what the evidence to the
contrary may be.
7. Obstetrics is very slow to change.
8. Obstetricians don't prefer to collaborate with their patient regarding labor and birth. An
informed patient is often seen as a threat.
9. Women obstetricians can be harsher than males. Depending on where they did their
residency, they may have had to work twice as hard to be considered half as good.
10. Obstetricians do not typically trust women or their bodies to do what they were made to do.
11. Obstetricians rarely view labor and birth as normal, safe, life events.
12. Most obstetricians practice in a CYA manner. Many are more concerned with not getting
sued than providing the best, evidenced based care possible.
13. No matter what a doctor says to you or agrees to, they want to be in control and have the
final say.
14. 38 weeks is considered full term. 40 weeks is considered over-due.
15. Induction at 38 weeks is considered good obstetric practice.
2. My birth plan was most likely going to be ignored.
3. Nurses and doctors prefer an epiduralized patient for a number of reasons.
4. Resident doctors at university hospitals need to practice of lot of procedures that most
women don't need and that I am considered fodder for "practice."
5. Hospitals routinely under staff ALL nursing units in order to save money.
6. Doctors practice obstetrics the way they were taught. No matter what the evidence to the
contrary may be.
7. Obstetrics is very slow to change.
8. Obstetricians don't prefer to collaborate with their patient regarding labor and birth. An
informed patient is often seen as a threat.
9. Women obstetricians can be harsher than males. Depending on where they did their
residency, they may have had to work twice as hard to be considered half as good.
10. Obstetricians do not typically trust women or their bodies to do what they were made to do.
11. Obstetricians rarely view labor and birth as normal, safe, life events.
12. Most obstetricians practice in a CYA manner. Many are more concerned with not getting
sued than providing the best, evidenced based care possible.
13. No matter what a doctor says to you or agrees to, they want to be in control and have the
final say.
14. 38 weeks is considered full term. 40 weeks is considered over-due.
15. Induction at 38 weeks is considered good obstetric practice.
