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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. You need a labor support doula to help be a voice for you, especially in situations like yours. Inducing at 39 weeks is not ok. [/quote]

No reputable doula would challenge an OB or any other medical staff in an L&D ward.  If they did, they would not be invited to come back and provide their services.  I used an excellent doula, and she makes very clear up front that she is not a medical care provider and she will not speak directly to hospital staff on my behalf.  When, after a long labor, the topic of induction came up, we did talk to her privately about our options.  Based on that conversation, we spoke directly to the L&D staff and decided to wait a little bit longer before starting pitocin...and ended up delivering without it.  Our doula was helpful in sorting out information, but she would never have intervened on our behalf.[/quote]

well it is good she didn't interfere directly.[b] [/b]But a doula who counseled the mother not to trust her doctor especially in a true high risk situation would still be interfering. [b]in retrospect I am very glad my overly crunchy doula was not there when the decision was made to induce. [/quote]

FTR, that's not what our doula did.  She did not tell us not to trust our doctor...we asked her, and she suggested we could ask our MW about alternatives, which is what we did.  If the MW had said she absolutely thought we should induce, we probably would have.  In our case, the only reason it was brought up was that it had been a long time and they had a policy of bringing it up to avoid mothers getting tired.[/quote]

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