One of the many wonderful birth related blogs I frequent wrote a must read post on Sunday entitled "The Pitfalls of Impatience". Catherine at Giving Birth Naturally reveals:
A new study published in the November, 2008 issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology, conducted by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, found that over 130,000 cesareans could be avoided each year by simply waiting an extra two hours for labor to progress normally.
If I didn't already know failure to wait and clock-watching wreak so much havoc with normal birth in hospitals and birth centres I would gasp. For any woman who is in the process of making her birth choices it is absolutely imperative that she ask her care providers what their time limit protocols are and ask to take a look at their statistics. It's also good to read and listen to as many birth stories as possible from others who have hired those care providers in the past.
Time constraints placed on birth is an issue dear to my heart as my daughter took three days to make her way into the world. This was normal for her position in the womb, but I know of other women who had babies in the same position and similar labour patterns to mine who ended up having caesareans after less than a full day of labour. Choosing a care provider who is actively supportive of normal birth and has the patience to let birth take as long as it needs to is vital to having the outcome nature intended.
Place of birth is an equally important choice a woman must make when planning for a normal birth. You cannot have an unnecessary caesarean at home, which is one of the reasons I was able to have a normal birth despite my baby's position and the time it took to labour.
Please read Catherine's post in full for more information, and take a look at her great site while you're at it.
Time constraints placed on birth is an issue dear to my heart as my daughter took three days to make her way into the world. This was normal for her position in the womb, but I know of other women who had babies in the same position and similar labour patterns to mine who ended up having caesareans after less than a full day of labour. Choosing a care provider who is actively supportive of normal birth and has the patience to let birth take as long as it needs to is vital to having the outcome nature intended.
Place of birth is an equally important choice a woman must make when planning for a normal birth. You cannot have an unnecessary caesarean at home, which is one of the reasons I was able to have a normal birth despite my baby's position and the time it took to labour.
Please read Catherine's post in full for more information, and take a look at her great site while you're at it.
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