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Questions to Ask Your Maternity Care Provider

  • What are the chances you will be at my birth?
    (on call, rotation, etc.)
  • Do you recommend that I take childbirth education classes? If not, why not? If so, what classes do you recommend?
  • How do you feel about birth plans?
  • What percentage of your clients are induced? What are the most common reasons for inducing among your clients?
  • If my membranes rupture and contractions do not start right away, for what length of time are you comfortable with me laboring at home and waiting for labor to begin? 

  • Are there care practices you consider to be standard or routine (e.g., continuous monitoring, rupturing membranes)?
  • How often do you work with doulas? Do you perceive them as beneficial?  Harmful? Unnecessary? 
  • How long are you comfortable letting labor proceed on its own, without the use of Pitocin?
  • What position have women given birth in at the last 10 births you attended? 
  • How long are you typically willing to let a woman push during Stage 2?
  • What is your rate of delivery via C-section?
  • What are the most frequent reasons you have for separating mother and baby after delivery? 

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