They had told me I had 30 minutes to get the placenta out or they were going to take me back for a D&C procedure.

Is it really true in a hospital that you have 30 minutes or is there more of a wiggle time?

The aggressiveness that we are putting on mothers to get this placenta born is creating a stress

response. Of course, if you're told after your baby's born, you have 30 minutes to get your

placenta out, what do you think that's going to do to the oxytocin in your body?

It shows you everything. If they're ignoring all of that, then this is just a completely arbitrary

thing. You can't say that to a woman who's having

a physiologic birth and takes a little wet baby onto her, skin to skin, and is starting the

breast crawl and say the same exact thing to a woman who's had an epidural and she's fully clothed

and they take the baby away to wash the baby. Each body is going through something radically

different. So if they're

really coming from an informed place, or if there were any good research on this, that would be

the top factor, not the time. I'm Cynthia Overgard, birth educator, advocate for informed consent,

and postpartum support specialist.

And I'm Trescia Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board certified lactation consultant.

And this is the Down to Birth Show.

Childbirth is something we're made to do.

But how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture?

Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.

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