Making a birth plan? Be sure to ask your doctor these 4 questions
Birth With Power
Dr. Nicole C. Rankins
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Making a birth plan is a really important part of helping you have the birth you want. A birth plan helps you think through the things that you want for your birth and communicate your wishes with your birth team. To make the most of your birth plan, be sure to ask your doctor the 4 key questions you'll learn in this short episode!
And to learn 4 more questions to ask as well as how to approach the process, tips to get your doctor and nurses to pay attention and what to include, join me in my FREE LIVE class Make A Birth Plan The RIGHT Way. Register at drnicolerankins.com/birthplan
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| 0:00.0 | If you're making your birth plan and you definitely should be, you need to ask your doctor these four key questions first. |
| 0:13.7 | Welcome to the all about pregnancy and birth podcast. If you're having a baby in the hospital, you are giving birth in a system that too often |
| 0:21.8 | takes away power from women over what happens in their own bodies. I'm Dr. Nicole Calloway |
| 0:27.3 | Rankins, a practicing board certified OBGYN, who's had the privilege of helping well over |
| 0:32.2 | a thousand babies into this world. I've been a doctor for over 20 years, and I'm here to help |
| 0:36.7 | you take back your power, |
| 0:39.1 | advocate for yourself, and have the beautiful pregnancy and birth that you deserve. This podcast |
| 0:44.1 | is for educational purposes only and it's not a substitute for medical advice. Check out the |
| 0:48.7 | full disclaimer at Dr. Nicole Rankins.com forward slash disclaimer. Now let's get to it. Hello there. Welcome to another episode |
| 0:57.8 | of the podcast, whether this is your first time listening or you have been here before. I'm so glad |
| 1:02.8 | you're spending some time with me today. In these short episodes, I cover a topic quickly, |
| 1:08.1 | share with some of my mind, answer listener questions. And in this episode, |
| 1:12.7 | I want to share four key questions that you need to ask your doctor if you are making a birth |
| 1:19.7 | plan. Now, before I get into the questions, let me do a quick listener shout out. This is from |
| 1:24.3 | Naya BGJ. And she left me this review in Apple Podcast and it says, |
| 1:31.9 | thank you, thank you. I am so glad I found this podcast. This is my third pregnancy, |
| 1:38.0 | but the first one to get past the first trimester. And I have been eager to learn all that I can to make the best of it |
| 1:45.5 | and have a beautiful pregnancy and birth that I deserve. It's very reassuring to receive |
| 1:50.5 | great advice and trustworthy information from Dr. Nicole. I can't thank you enough. Thank you so much |
| 1:56.5 | for that lovely review. I really, really, really appreciate it. Congratulations on making it this far in |
| 2:03.2 | your pregnancy. And I am right here with you to help you have that beautiful pregnancy and birth, |
| 2:08.8 | like you said, that you deserve. Now, one of the things that will help with that is making a |
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