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Can you stay home until your water breaks or can you refuse to let the break your water

Your water will break when it is ready. Sometimes this happens before contractions begin, sometimes it happens as the baby is born. Both are okay and neither signals that there is a problem.

If you want to avoid pitocin and an epidural then tell your doctor or midwife and don let them do it. It is Polo Ralph Lauren T-Shirts your body and your birth.

Sometimes providers think that breaking a woman bag of waters will speed the labor up. And sometimes it does. But sometimes it does not. Unfortunately most doctors, once they break your water, lock you into a 24-hour ticking clock to deliver the baby. If they break your water and you don dilate they do a C-section. Again, the choices are YOURS. There is a requirement, in fact a law, that INFORMED CONSENT must be given by the mother before any procedure can be done including breaking your water, epidural, Pitocin, episiotomy, or even an IV. Informed consent means they must tell you ALL of the RISKS of the procedure or medication. With my second born the Dr. broke it at 10 cm while I was pushing. If you are laboring for hours with little progress then breaking the water can help, but it Ralph Lauren Outet Online can make labor more painful too. When the dr breaks the waters its painless, except for the fact that his hand is in your hoo-hah, but that happens all the time in labor, lol.

My advice, stay home until your contractions are 5 min apart or your water breaks, which ever happens first.