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Insurance

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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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Transfers

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Today, a beautiful young lady came in to the birth center in the early stages of labor. She did not progress and this baby did not move down to help out...after several hours with no progress she asked for pain medication. In this case, I agreed completely. Watching her struggle made me grateful for pain medication for some people...obviously I do not believe that everyone should use pain medication for every birth (duh) but in some cases, it is very well indicated. I am hoping that she has a vaginal birth, but we never know what will happen when we send them in to the hospital or if the medication will be able to smooth the way so a woman can progess without fighting her body so violently. All I know is that no matter what we said to her, how we tried to comfort her, stroked her back or held her hand, none of us could make it any easier for this one. My prayer today is for her and any one else like her out there fighting through labor and not getting anywhere and struggling with feeli...
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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 wom...
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