Sometimes it makes me sad when I talk to moms to be because I feel like warning them about labor and delivery knowing everything that I know now. Letting them know that they need to be their own advocate because the truth is that doctors might not always have "the best" for mommy and baby in mind. I don't think it would have mattered if I had been told these things before my first, I probably would have thought the person warning me was an extremist and crazy. After all, what more do you have to go on than your doctor, a couple of books, and a Childbirth class. Pretty much what will happen, will happen, right?
Well, obviously I disagree now, this pregnancy I've become my own advocate, my own researcher. I want to know the facts this time and I want to be part of the process. I think what makes me the most crazy is realizing that no one else is going to do it for me and if I want to have an opinion I've got to do the work myself. So here is my ramblings about this time around leaving the first time mom experience behind I am plunging into the realm of the informed.
