Women birthing with medical care providers such as doctors and registered midwives often have vaginal exams performed every 2-4 hours during a woman’s labour, depending on the care provider and birth location. I could go on and on about cervical exams and how important I believe it is to be extremely cautious with both choosing if or when to have routine cervical… Read more →
I am a pretty expressive person. Those of you who read my blog posts regularly probably already have a sense of this! In person, I often talk with my hands and seem to (apparently) amuse my friends with pronounced facial expressions. As a result, my birth friends have taken up creating captions for facebook photos I’ve been tagged in. It… Read more →
I don’t mean the “C” word you’re probably thinking of. For me, the dreaded “C” stands for the first word in “Cervical Exam”. I’m going to be completely honest and opinionated about this. I really dislike cervical exams during birth. Watching a birthing woman get out of her rhythm and onto her back so her health practitioner can put gloved fingers… Read more →