I had an appointment with my midwife this afternoon, and after all the usual checks, she thought we should talk about my expectations for the delivery, telling me that a new procedure they’re following at the hospital is the Dublin model of active management of labor.\u00a0 Now is it just me, or do those words, “active management of labor,” have an ominous ring to them?\u00a0 Yeah, thanks but no thanks.\u00a0 I don’t need my labor “managed” by anyone.<\/p>\n
I talked a little about my own approach with the midwife, and she made some notes in my file to the effect that I want a natural childbirth, without unnecessary monitoring and interventions, but the appointment didn’t exactly leave me feeling confident about what awaits me in the delivery room.\u00a0 For one thing, a peculiarity of the Swedish system is that there’s a sharp division of pre-natal midwives and childbirth midwives, which means that the woman I’ve been seeing for the past several months will have nothing whatsoever to do with my labor and delivery.\u00a0 For another, the term “midwife” is rather a bad, if universal, translation from the Swedish, and these health care professionals are really nothing of the sort.\u00a0 Instead, they’re obstetrical nurses, and past experience has taught me to view them as a fairly intervention-happy lot even before this whole “Dublin model” business.<\/p>\n
Up until now, I had been looking forward to a relatively calm and tension-free delivery, but now I can’t help feeling — again — that I’m going to have to fight to have things the way I want them.\u00a0 I want to keep a positive outlook, but at the moment the most upbeat description I can give my feelings about the whole affair is “resigned.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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