You can’t expect your birth to look different from your prenatal care.
You can’t expect individualized care during labor when you’ve hired a provider who allots 15 minutes for prenatal appointments.
You can’t expect informed choice during labor when you’ve hired a provider who doesn’t give you informed choice in your prenatal meetings.
You can’t expect your birth plan to be honored when you aren’t leading your prenatal care.
You can’t expect a hands-off birth and hands off baby when you’ve hired a provider who has to put their hands inside of you to gather information in pregnancy.
You can’t expect to be treated as an expert of your body and baby if you are looking to someone else as an expert over you and your baby.
You can’t submit to standardized prenatal care and expect a personalized birth experience.
Expect your birth to look like your prenatal care.
Hire wisely. Or take full responsibility and do it yourself.
Autonomous birth starts with autonomous prenatal care.
