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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Still not convinced. Who told her she wouldn't get insurance coverage? Again nobody is denying your choice; you just don't actually have the courage to stand up for yourself. Or more correctly, you want to have it both ways: refuse the OB's medical advice, and have the OB continue to care for you, and then also likely sue/blame the OB if something went wrong due to your own decision to refuse their advice.

Short of a court order, nobody is "taking away your choice." What they are doing is telling you you're making a bad choice -- that's what you don't like.

Also, if you actually act like a rational, sane, person, then chances are you can have a meaninful conversation with your OB about waiting to induce. This means that you have to acknowledge that you understand the increased risk, and probably come to some sort of agreement about following the OB's advice when the risk gets too high. But if you go in armed with printouts from evidencebasedbirth.com, acting like the OB is your enemy, and like you know more than they do ... then it will be much harder to have this kind of shared decisionmaking conversation.[/quote]

All of this. Also, how is all of this about what YOU want? Your OB also has a responsibility to weigh the risks of your placenta degrading and other risks.  How would you feel if you had needed an emergency c-section because your placenta wasn't providing nutrients or they could no longer feel the baby kicking, or if he/she had to have his clavicle broken to be delivered because the baby grew too large?

I asked all the many doctors that treated me during both my pregnancies a MILLION questions, with an eye toward me gaining knowledge, not laying down the law to them.  Did everything go exactly as I wanted it? No, not in either case. But I felt well taken care of and listened to. My first OB flat out told me she would induce at 40 weeks because in her experience she had observed unfavorable outcomes by waiting longer, and she was not willing to take the risk as the provider. I could live with that.[/quote]

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