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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teaching hospital question. What made you against it rather than for it? It seems the doctor is still in the room I believe? [/quote]

I didn't end up having any students or trainees at my births, but I did have some present for prenatal appointments and considered the "present at birth" issue. With my first baby, I didn't really know what my comfort level with strangers would be during that time and I also didn't really know what I'd need. In retrospect, I don't think I would actually have noticed if there were students present as I was very internally focused during that labor. With my second child, she was being induced and I was kind of stressed out about it. I kind of just didn't want people around - didn't want to be talking to anyone or having anyone watching me at all, to the point where DH was annoying me by asking nice questions about how I was doing as well. It was not at a teaching hospital, so it wasn't an issue, but I remember noticing the difference (after the fact) between how little I noticed other humans during my first labor and how bothered I was by other humans during my second.

In general, I believe that people have to learn somehow and that students are capable of being respectful and are well trained enough by that point to not be offensive, but laboring women's comfort levels are not the same woman to woman, not entirely predictable, and expected to change throughout the process.

But also, important to note that having your birth attended by students doesn't mean that the students are the only ones there. They are observing the licensed provider. Resident OBs are not "students" and should be considered "real doctors" by everyone. Medical students are not conducting procedures by themselves on laboring women.[/quote]

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