Did you know that every pregnant woman has RIGHTS? Yup
- Every woman has the right to......
- health care before, during and after pregnancy and childbirth
- choose a midwife or a physician as her materinity care provider.
- choose her birth setting from the full range of safe options available in her community.
- receive all or most of her maternity care from a single caregiver or a small group of caregivers that she can establish a relationship with and she has the right to leave that caregiver and select another.
- information about her caregivers identity and qualifications.
- communicate in privacy with her caregiver.
- receive maternity care that identifies and addresses social and behavioral factors that affect her health and that of her baby.
- full and clear information about benefits, risks and costs of procedures, drugs, tests and treatments offered to her including no intervention.
- accept or refuse procedures, drugs, tests and treatments.
- be informed if the caregivers wish to enroll her and her infantin a research study
- unrestricted access to all available records about her health and that of the baby.
- receive maternity care that is cultrally and religiously appropriate.
- have family members and friends of her choice present during maternity care.
- receive continuous social, emotional and physical support during labour and birth from a trained professional Birth Doula
- receive full advanced information on the risks and benefits of available medication for pain management during labour and the right to change her mind if she chooses not to use what is offered.
- freedom of movement during labour.
- receive complete information about the benefits of breastfeeding in advance of labour.
- decide collaboratively with caregivers when to leave the birth site for home.
- every woman and infant has the right to receive care that is consistent with current scientific evidence about benefits and risks.
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