Bollocks to that

[thedivinegoat_archive]

I want chocolate, and I want a new consultant.

No, it is not obvious that I will be delivering the twins at the RUH, fuckhead.  I have a legal right to a homebirth, and I have a legal right to type of birth I want, and no, I will not have the birth that your procedure dictates just because it's convienient for you.

And it's considered polite to introduce yourself, and tell me who the woman you've just brought into room with you is.

Also, considering we'd been waiting 2 hours for our appointment, (the last twenty five minutes spent in the consulting room wondering what the fuck was going on) some sort of apology would have been nice. Failing that, some sort of acknowledgement of how long we'd been waiting.

So yeah, so not impressed.

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[classicshe.livejournal.com]

I don't mind your rant, after all, its your post, your body, your children.

Its also obvious you have your mind set, and nothing will deter you from your plotted course, so I wish you and yours the best.

[inkbabies.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm just one of the thedivinegoat's friends, maybebabies. Sorry for the mix up. I'm a trained, certified, homebith midwife in the United States, so yeah, I guess you could say my mind is set. ~_^
I've had one of my three children in a hospital by choice, one at the hospital because of complications and one at home. I had the same Midwife for my last two pregnancies, but I became seriously ill during my second pregnancy and had to go to the hospital at 30 weeks. My midwife caught the problem very early and transfered my care to the hospital ASAP. My son was born prematurely (32 weeks) in the hospital, but my midwife was there with me. Despite all of the problems with the second pregnancy, I was able to have my third son out of the hospital, and he was born right on his due date, mostly because of the extra attention we paid to the pregnancy to avoid the illness that caused my problem last time. I had more thourough and personal care with my midwife than I've ever had with a doctor. Not to mention the fact that at the hospital it's not the doctors who care for you, it's the nurses. (Midwives have much more training than nurses in childbirth and care of the pregnant woman. We also have the same monitoring equipment to monitor the baby's heart at home, oxygen, I.V.s, suturing equipment, medication to stop bleeding, etc.)