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Congratulations!! You took a pregnancy test and it came out positive. Then you scheduled a consult and tour at our birth center. And while you visited us, we put together an estimate for your insurance coverage. Most people really don't understand how their insurance plans actually work. I mean, they understand that they have insurance but they often don't understand why they have to pay anything out of pocket or a how we come up with the estimate, so we thought we would help break this down for you.  But first: there are different ways people obtain insurance plans. Some employers include insurance plans are a benefit to working with their company. Employers will contract with different insurance companies and each employer might offer different plans to different employees, so just because you have Cigna, as an example, it doesn't mean all Cigna plans are the same. Also, some people purchase their own insurance plans directly from insurance companies or from the Marketpla...
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Labor in and of itself

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Yesterday I had a first time mom walk in the door and have her baby within minutes, like it was nothing...(I mean physically, not emotionally). She spent little time preparing for her labor, understood the mechanics of how her body worked and frankly just didn't have the money to spend of relaxation classes. She wasn't concerned, she had faith in how it worked and that her body was capable of this awesome journey.

Yet another first time mommie will come in, having scoured every pregnancy book, read every article, taken every class...she can hypnobirth herself into a trance in the middle of the grocery store, but when she goes into labor it will be a knock down drag out fight between her subconcious and her physical being. Or is it really? maybe she has a long hard labor just simply because of the mechanics of birth. The angle and attitude of the baby's head, the curve and shape of her pelvis, the strength and tone of her uterus. And she will have compared herself to the woman who had her baby lickety split, thinking that she didn't "relax enough" that she didn't cope with her contractions as well as she might have. She did as her body guided her. She did perfect, but she is going to think she could have done "better".

As a midwife I ask myself "how can I change this?" How can I as a midwife help her see that every body is different, that each baby makes it's own path? That each birth is perfect, because it is the birth of a child and that the journey through labor is as individual as each childs smile? 

Give me some feedback, people...let me know you like minded ones are out there!

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MrsSoersdal said…
I spent years thinking my first birth could have gone better. I mentally scolded myself for screaming and crying through it. I was certain it was my fault that it had gone so long. Part of it was ignorance and part of it was that most of the birth books out there say that long labors happen because those women are just too insecure and haven't relaxed enough. It took an awful lot of learning and reading and discovery before I figured out that it really wasn't my fault and more than that, I'd done very very well with the situation I was given. The proof was in the easy as pie birth of my second. I just wish I knew then what I know now.
October 19, 2008 at 12:35 AM
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