Sacred Beginning Suggested Care-Providers

HypnoBirthing® Families are seeking Care Providers who will support their choice for a calm and peaceful birth experience. In finding the right Care Providers you are reclaiming your birthing energy. So how do you find the right Care Provider? First, always remember that finding a Care Provider is a consumer driven activity. It is a worth wild activity to sit and reflect on what type of birth experience you want: Medicated, Non-Medicated, Physilogical, Cesarean, Intervention, Educated, Supported, Nutured, or something else. Think about your ethics and values and how you want that reflected in your own care provider. After you have taken the time to evaluate, envision, and more importantly visualize your birth - its time to seek a Care Provider who supports that same vision for birth (or at least close to it). You wouldn't buy the first house you looked at right? So take time to schedule appointments with various kinds of birth professionals (CPM, CNM, OB's, Doulas, Educators and more). These interviews are time for you to ask the hard questions and see if these Care Providers are the right fit for your family.

What pregnancy books do you recommend I read?

What do you recommend for normal pregnancy aches and pains?

Who are your back up practitioners? When might I see them? Can I meet them before the birth?

Do you recommend any certain childbirth classes?

Do you routinely use interventions in labor or do you wait to see if they are needed?

At what point to you talk about the artificial induction of labor?

Do you labor sit?

Will you come to my home in early labor?

Which doulas have you worked with? Who would you recommend?

What are your vaginal birth rates?

For first time moms? For moms who have had babies before?

For moms who have had previous cesarean births?

What is your episiotomy rate?

What is your cesarean section rate?

Do you support birthing in water?

Do you support women being active in birth?

Are you comfortable with a woman giving birth in a position which works for her body?

What hospital do you have privledges at?

Can you support a homebirth?

How long have you been practicing?

What do you like best about your profession?

Do you support the midwife model of care?

Do you support evidence base care practices such as eating during and moving during labor?

How many women do you support per month? Can I be sure that you will be at the birth?

If special circumstances happen how will that change the direction of my care?

Do you support women in a gentle Cesarean Section if needed at all?

How do you feel about postpartum bonding with baby after birth?

Do you support Kangaroo Care?

Will you support a lotus birth?

Have you ever supported a Jewish Orthodox birth or other culturally different births?

How do you feel about Holistic Support during pregnancy?

Do you support HypnoBirths?

The above questions can be a start for your research process. Always ask for references and ask in your community about Care Providers. There is a wealth of information out there and if you tap into it and find the right Care Provider your birth experience will be much smoother.

Finding Supportive Care Providers (CNM's, CPM's, OBGYN's, Doula's, Monitrices, & other Providers) is essential to having a great birth experience!