So often, at some point during a woman’s pregnancy, a health-care professional or well meaning friend, will provide information that puts unnecessary fear into the heart and mind of a mother-to-be.
“A woman may be told she is: Too Old – Too Young – Too Small – Too Big…Women have babies!”
Pamela Hunt, CPM, The Farm Midwifery Center
For more, listen to the podcast by Deborah Flowers, RN/CPM and Ibu Robin Lim, CPM, and their discussion on Prenatal Care, not Prenatal Scare!
At 42 and pregnant for the first time, Mia’s doctor called her a “geriatric mother,” and told her she was too old to deliver a baby naturally.
When she refused to get an ultrasound, the doctor proclaimed, “What? Do you want your baby to die?”
Mia chose instead to have CPM Deborah Flowers as her midwife, driving 12 hours from her home in Chicago for loving, prenatal care.
Both Mia and baby Zoe did great!
A classic example of Prenatal Scare.