Are you committed to having a better birth? Do your own research!

Don't rely on your health care professional to tell you everything you need to know, because they won't.

Not because they're a jerk or anything of the sort. It's just that they don’t have the time to spend telling you things that aren’t medically necessary for you to know.

The medical community, on the whole, is trained to look for and deal with pathology - which a normal pregnancy and labor do not fall under.

Your OB might give you some handouts to read, or even give you a book to take home - but those information sources are going to be woefully incomplete.

Pregnancy is not a disease, and our babies do not need to be rescued from our bodies. Trust birth.

• Read the rest of this as an article on my Substack.

• Check out my Navigating Birth in the System course.