01/23/2024
Today we're talking about Balancing Advocacy and Trust in pregnancy and childbearing 🤰🏽. You advocating for yourself or your partner doing so for you during delivery.
How do you balance trusting your doctor, your midwives, and also being vocal about your preference? It starts with meeting beforehand and discussing your preferences BEFORE it's "go time". There's so much time to create a birth plan, and if you remember from my last video, it's important that whoever will be with you in the delivery room is present for those discussions. So that they can remind your team of your agreed-upon preferences.
But having faith in your provider of choice is also important - so that when they share their reasoning for their suggestions, you can trust that it's from a good place. Listen to this video for more thoughts on this based on my experiences in my career as an OBGYN.