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Ojo
If you're interested, I came across this birth story from a woman who delivered twins naturally in a hospital and she talks a lot about the hospital politics and how she dealt with them. I thought of you when I read it after the discussion in the other thread yesterday.
Just so you know, there are a couple of graphic photos - one of the mom naked from the waist up, and one of the placenta. Obviously, the link is NSFW.
http://mamabirth.blogspot.com/2012/04/natural-hospital-birth-of-identical.html
Re: Ojo
The shout out to the doula at the end..."thanks for bfing (baby) for me"....I'm wondering if she means the doula helped latch the baby on or if the doula physically breastfed the OPs baby.
Thank you for sharing this, because it hadn't occurred to me to ask for a written copy of my hospital's "twin policy." Their "policy" to make me birth in the OR obviously comes from somewhere, so I'm wondering what else is written in there.
I didn't even see the shout out for BFing. I wonder what she meant. Wow. I know people do still wet-nurse, but I've never actually heard form someone who had personally done it.
As for the obstetric lies part - definitely depends on your OB, but I'm glad I saw an NP for the most part during my pregnancy with DS. She was much less invasive than the OB I saw at the end. I'm so glad I found a midwife for the next go-around.
Oh good! I hope they can help. In your position I would really like to have a written set of "policies" just as a jumping-off point to know what to expect. That way you can't get strong-armed into something under the pretense of "standard policy" if it's not.