Midwife

I've decided that this time around I want to have a waterbirth at home, so I've hired a local midwife and have been seeing her for check-ups. With Eva's birth I was able to deliver naturally with no complications, but the way I had to fight the hospital to get the birth I wanted showed me that they’d never fully support an unmedicated birth. I can't tell my OB, because if they find out I'm seeing a midwife they won't see me. Something to do with their liability insurance, which to me is ridiculous, but there you have it. Everyone has to be more concerned with covering their backsides these days than what is best for the patient. So I keep my mouth shut and see them both. My midwife wasn't too thrilled about my taking a prescription drug for my nausea, but she understands how desperate a situation it's been for me, and gives me B-vitamin shots to help ease the residual nausea. It's helped a lot, though not enough to drop the medication.