Ten Tips for Taking
Charge of Your Maternity Care
- Know your maternity care
rights. Your rights may not be
protected if you do not understand and exercise them. Learn more: The Rights of Childbearing Women.
- Choose your maternity care provider and birth setting wisely. There are better and worse care providers and better and worse hospitals in every community. When available, birth centers are an excellent care setting for most women. Check the quality of the options in your area. Try to find care providers who offer safe, effective care options and a safe, family-friendly birth setting.
- Think about what is important
to you, and communicate this to your care team. Your preferences and values matter. In maternity
care there are often multiple options, each with their own potential
benefits and harms. Often one is safer for you and your fetus/newborn than
another. You are the one who should decide which benefits and harms matter
most to you.
- Take responsibility for your
health during pregnancy. This
means eating well, staying active and fit, getting rest and limiting
stress as much as possible. It also means learning as much as you can
about pregnancy and birth, and working with your care provider to get the
care you need when you need it. This website provides helpful information
on these topics both before you get pregnant and throughout your pregnancy.
- For more, call 08091334685.
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