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[quote=Anonymous]Why does everyone think hospitals are concerned with your health as a #1 priority? Hospitals that administer IV fluids (talking about the fluids here, not the lock) do not do so because it is safer. They do so because they have always done it, it's the standard of care, and it's easier for them. Hospitals are concerned with their bottom line, not getting sued, and providing care. Sometimes those incentives are aligned, sometimes they're not. The argument that hospitals know better doesn't fly. It doesn't explain why hospitals do things differently. Why do some hospitals require IV fluids while others do not? Since they do have different standard operating procedures, it makes sense to investigate whether one standard I'd care is better than another. If you actually do this research, you will find that there is no good reason to have all laboring women administered IV fluids. Getting the lock is a different issue, one of risk analysis. The hosptal's risk analysis is different than an indiudual's. The hospital administration does not care about natural birth. C-sections are money-makers, so why wouldn't the hospital provide an environment where caesarean birth is more likely? A natural birth is very cheap, whereas a birth full of interventions followed by a long hospital stay makes money for a lot of people. Our health care system has a lot of problems and maternity care is no exception.[/quote]

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