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DAY 9: Radical, Autonomous “Prenatal Care”

December 20, 2018

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Radical, autonomous “prenatal care”; the DEPTH and BEAUTY of caring for ourselves in pregnancy!
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Margo and I both are HUGE advocates of women taking charge during their prenatal time. This is SO not a black and white thing, though, because it means different things for different people. As it should! We have come to believe that “prenatal care” is so fixed; we go somewhere, someone else measures, weighs and assess us; this someone else tells us if everything is ok or not…and we go on our way, till next month!

We need to BLOW THIS apart; because even if someone chooses this, it CANNOT be the only way that prenatal care looks. And I am going to go out on a limb and say that this “outside of ourselves” prenatal care is pretty useless, and confidence-degrading, and really is fucking up our birth outcomes because these turn out to be the same women (not a coincidence!) that give up power in their births.
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