Birth Well Doula

…that you’d rather not hear while giving birth:

Nurse talking about labor pain: “Oh that’s nothing! Wait until you get to 7 cm!”

Doctor: “The slowest progress allowed is 1 cm per hour.”

Doctor: “Oh, It’s time to break the water.” As he breaks the mom’s water without asking or discussing first.

Nurse comes into the room saying… “This is what we’re going to do!”

Nurse: “Anything that’s not a c-section is a natural birth to me.”

Nurse describing pain relief options: “…then there’s no medicine with screaming and breaking your partner’s hands and that’s when I close the door and leave the room!”

Here’s an interesting article at the Washington Post from 10/5 that describes the current debate about how much seafood is safe to eat during pregnancy.  On one side is the potential of mercury poisoning and the other is the need for fish oils for brain development.