Birth Interventions Overview

Pregnancy Podcast

Vanessa Merten

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.5 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

An intervention is any action taken to alter the course of your labor or birth. Modern medicine is amazing, and there is no doubt that interventions have saved the lives of both mothers and babies. Although many interventions are routine, there is no one-size-fits-all. Your job is to make informed decisions based on what is best for you and your baby. Just because something is routine or suggested does not mean it is mandatory or the right choice for you. You always have options as long as you are informed and you know what those options are. This episode gives you a 10,000-foot view of the interventions that can take place during your labor and birth and tools you can use to navigate your options.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the pregnancy podcast with Vanessa Merton.
0:10.0	Hello, thank you for tuning into the pregnancy podcast. Today's episode, we're giving you an overview of birth interventions.
0:20.0	An intervention is any action that's taken to alter the course of your labor or birth.
0:25.0	Modern medicine is amazing and there's no doubt that interventions have saved the lives of both mothers and babies.
0:32.0	Although there's a lot of interventions the lives of both mothers and babies.
0:33.0	Although there's a lot of interventions that are routine,
0:36.3	there's not a one-size-fits-all.
0:38.6	And your job is to make informed decisions
0:41.0	based on what's best for you and your baby.
0:44.1	Just because something is routine or suggested doesn't mean that it's mandatory or that it's
0:49.1	the right choice for you.
0:51.0	You always have options. The caveat with that though is that you have to be
0:55.9	informed and know what your options are. So this episode is a 10,000 foot view of
1:01.8	the interventions that can take place during your labor and birth,
1:05.8	and tools you can use to navigate your options.
1:09.2	You can find the complete article and all of the resources for this episode at pregnancy
1:14.8	podcast.com slash intervention. A lot of the topics that we're talking about
1:21.5	today have full episodes that dive deeper into the evidence
1:25.8	and give you more information about your options. Again, this episode is the 10,000 foot view.
1:32.1	If you want to dig into some of the other episodes that we touch on today,
1:36.3	you're going to want access to the premium podcast feed so that you have access to the entire back
1:42.0	catalog. Premium members have access to the entire back catalog.
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