I will be forever grateful for my VBAC OB, who didn’t do ANY cervical checks before labor…. unless 1. induction was on the table 2. his patients requested them. The model of respectful, safe, trauma-informed care.
In labor, I had 1 at admission and 1 when I was complete. 2 total. Both consented.
Imagine that kind of respectful, trauma-informed care were possible at scale. Imagine all providers cared that much about patients…
He did maternal-assisted cesareans as well. Unfortunately, it seems to be a rare OB who seems women as human and not as inert, silent/silenced objects, to be “delivered of” a fetus via a series of complex interventions and assessments.
I will be forever grateful for my VBAC OB, who didn’t do ANY cervical checks before labor…. unless 1. induction was on the table 2. his patients requested them. The model of respectful, safe, trauma-informed care.
In labor, I had 1 at admission and 1 when I was complete. 2 total. Both consented.
Imagine that kind of respectful, trauma-informed care were possible at scale. Imagine all providers cared that much about patients…
He did maternal-assisted cesareans as well. Unfortunately, it seems to be a rare OB who seems women as human and not as inert, silent/silenced objects, to be “delivered of” a fetus via a series of complex interventions and assessments.