Awakening Birth

So often, at some point during a woman’s pregnancy, a health-care professional or well meaning friend, will provide information that puts unnecessary fear into the heart and mind of a mother-to-be.“A woman may be told she is:     Too Old - Too Young - Too Small - Too Big…Women have babies!”Pamela Hunt, CPM, The Farm Midwifery CenterIn this episode, midwives Deborah Flowers, RN/CPM and Ibu Robin Lim, CPM, describe the many ways fear is used to intimidate or influence pregnant women to abandon natural child birth in favor of more technical intervention, as well as submit to a battery of tests that may or may not be in the mother or baby’s best interest.Prenatal Care, not Prenatal Scare!