https://www.urbanearthworm.org/2016/02/17/military-homebirth-attack-on-informed-consent/ Thu, 13 Feb 2020 14:43:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 https://www.urbanearthworm.org/2016/02/17/military-homebirth-attack-on-informed-consent/#comment-5114 Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:09:45 +0000 http://www.urbanearthworm.org/?p=1236#comment-5114 So sorry this happend to you. I too was an active duty Marine when my first baby was born, and my treatment at NHCP wasn’t much different. The end result was interventions I didn’t want and essentially birth trama because of the way I was treated. My personal opinion, is that obstetrics has no place in a military hospital. Birth is a very beautiful and delicate matter and should be out sourced to a local hospital or birthing facility.

]]> https://www.urbanearthworm.org/2016/02/17/military-homebirth-attack-on-informed-consent/#comment-5113 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 16:53:14 +0000 http://www.urbanearthworm.org/?p=1236#comment-5113 Nonservice members have the option of switching IF THEY KNOW IT’S AN OPTION. I didn’t know and had no way of knowing. The military absolutely makes it as hard as possible to figure out their guidelines and wade through the legal mess to figure out our health coverage. Since I didn’t know, I ended up with a 5 week premature infant, an large, unnecessary episiotomy that was done and incorrectly repaired by a resident (no, I had no idea a medical student was even at my birth let alone that he was providing my care; no one informed or asked me), 3 days of no food or water while they decided whether or not to deliver my son, medication administered that has been shown to cause uterine rupture, and a whole other list of interventions including insulting behavior from a corpsman who got sick of emptying my bed pan (since I wasn’t allowed out of bed) after being called into my room to do it TWICE in one day.

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