Five Essential Questions to Navigate Procedures & Interventions

Pregnancy Podcast

Vanessa Merten

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.5 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

You will have many opportunities to opt in or out of interventions in your pregnancy, birth, or with your newborn. You always have options when it comes to your prenatal care and birth as long as you know what your options are. In a perfect world, every procedure comes with informed consent, and you have all the information you need to make an informed decision confidently. In the real world, constraints like limited appointment time make proper informed consent a challenge. There are five simple questions you can ask. When used together, these are one of the most versatile tools you can apply to any decision, whether navigating prenatal care, choosing interventions to employ during labor and birth, or making critical choices for your newborn.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the pregnancy podcast with Vanessa Merton.
0:07.0	Hello, thank you for tuning into the pregnancy podcast. In today's episode, we're
0:16.3	going to talk about five essential questions to navigate procedures and
0:20.7	interventions. You're going to have a lot of opportunities to opt in or
0:25.1	opt out of interventions in your pregnancy, during your labor and birth, or with your
0:30.2	newborn baby. You always have options as long as you know what your options are.
0:36.6	In a perfect world, every procedure is going to come with informed consent.
0:41.2	So you're going to have all of the information that you need so that you can
0:44.4	confidently make an informed decision. In reality, constraints like limited time
0:50.0	available for appointments can make proper informed consent a real challenge.
0:55.8	There are five simple questions that you can ask and when these are used together, this is one of
1:01.6	the most versatile tools that you can apply to any decision.
1:05.8	And that goes for whether you're navigating prenatal care, choosing which interventions you
1:10.4	want to employ during your labor and birth or making critical choices for your baby.
1:16.6	You can find the complete article and all of the resources for this episode at pregnancy
1:22.4	podcast.com slash questions.
1:27.0	Right now you have access to the last year of episodes.
1:31.0	There are hundreds of episodes in the back catalog on every topic for pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, caring for a newborn.
1:40.0	You can become a pregnancy podcast premium member and access the entire bat catalog of episodes.
1:47.0	All of that content is ad free.
1:49.5	Plus you'll get instant access to a digital copy of the Your Birth Plan book.
1:54.6	That walks you step by step through creating your birth plan.
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