In this Dr. Nicole says episode, I'm sharing why you deserve more than a healthy baby.

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I'm Dr. Nicole Calloway Rankins, a board certified OBGYN, who's been in practice for nearly 15 years.

I've had the privilege of helping over 1,000 babies into this world, and I'm here to help

you be calm, confident, and empowered to have a beautiful pregnancy in birth.

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Now let's get to it.

Hello there. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. This is the Dr. Nicole says episode on how you deserve more than a healthy baby.

Whether you are a new listener or a returning listener, I'm so grateful you're spending some of your time with me today.

Now, in these shorter episodes of Dr. Nicole says, I'm just sharing

an important topic with you today. And today we're going to talk about how you deserve more

than a healthy baby. So you will hear people say a lot, like, you know, you should just be

happy to have a healthy baby, okay? You'll hear doctors say it, you'll hear nurses say it,

family members, and even friends. And this often comes up in the context of making a birth plan.

So what happens is you express things that you want for your birth, perhaps like a low intervention birth,

you want to avoid cesarean birth, you want to avoid episiotomy, you want intermittent monitoring

and not have to be strapped to the monitors all the time, you want to be able to move around,

maybe you want to use the shower or bath. Maybe you

want to have an unmedicated birth and you put all of your things and your preferences into a birth

plan. And then the doctor, maybe even the midwife sometimes will say like, well, I'm going to say

it's generally going to be doctors who are going to be more like this.

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