Trish, I haven't really thought about water or land birth, we have a nice big spa so it would be lovely to birth in there!! I am too busy trying to convince dh that we are safer having the bub at home! We will be having 2 midwives for a homebirth, and I am looking into hiring a doula aswell.
MIn, sometimes you can get a wireless monitor around your belly, I am pretty sure you can shower with that on. Or the internal monitor is another one, you may want to look into that though, I am not sure if it would effect bubs heartrate or not from having it put in.
I am with Trish on this one, constant monitoring is just something that may make you worry, and lets face it, unless there is a nurse sitting there every second watching the trace print out then what is the difference between that and intermittent monitoring?? And you do have a right to refuse anything they want to do. Make sure you tell whoever goes in with you, your husband or partner for example, what you don't want, and let him be your advocate if you are unable. You may be able to negotiate, initial trace on admission, and then only intermittent after that. Oh, and another thing, do some research on the efm, they have extremely high false positive rates.
Last edited by becmc; April 2nd, 2007 at 10:17 AM.
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