So there is no Sunday Surfin’ today because I was gone from Saturday early in the morning until last night and my brain is in a fog. 🙂
Just wanted to say how much I love being a doula and what an honor it is to attend births.
I will say that I don’t like continuous fetal monitoring – just because I feel like 90% of my job at a hospital birth is holding the monitor on, so mom can be in different positions.
I love telemetric monitoring because my VBAC mom was able to get in the tub! But I will say I need a massage after holding the monitor on while she was in the tub. 20 minutes off the monitor would have been fine. But with a VBAC mom they are pretty strict about that at hospitals.
If mom gives me permission I will share her story later.
I love having a “job” which makes me cry tears of joy! 🙂
I wish you could be here for our homebirth.
sounds like a nice VBAC.
for most of my VBACs the only time the attendees have been insistent in monitoring is during pushing. this last vbac? i was monitored for 20 minutes every hour and nothing at all after the last 20 minute strip and birth. They got the strip, asked for a little longer, I declined, got out of bed, walked and danced, started pushing standing next to the bed, told them to call the OB, spend a couple contractions kneeling on the bed, sat back on one hip, pushed twice and had my baby. it was awesome!! honestly, anyone watching my birth would never know that I was a VBAC. no fear or apprehension, no one behaving like my uterus was a ticking time bomb. 😀
That is SO awesome. In our hospitals here they like the continuous monitoring for VBAC moms. We had a bit of a break during the tub, but the nurse came in and said, we need to get a reading on the baby or she has to get out. (We were in the tub for over an hour) so I tried holding the monitors on and bought more time. 🙂
That would be so awesome! I am sure there are great doulas there. Are there any Hypnobabies Instructors in your area?
Saddleback has tubs to labor in. You can’t birth in them, but you can labor in them!
Wow! What hospital has tubs available?!! That’s really cool!