Episode 237: How to Have an Empowering Hospital Birth with Trish Ware, L&D Nurse To Birth and Beyond

In today’s episode, Anita talks with L&D Nurse, Trish Ware, about her position as an L&D nurse, as well as how to have the most empowering hospital birth possible!



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Resources and References


Anita’s Bump to Birth Course (self study)
Trish Ware, RN - Instagram
Trish’s free Birth Workshop
Trish’s Calm Labor Birth class



Show Notes

0:55 - Anita’s Bump to Birth Method (self study)

2:50 - Who I am talking with today!

4:00 - What got Trish into L&D?

8:50 - How many patients is an L&D nurse working with at once?

10:02 - Is an L&D nurse there for an OB/GP or midwife?

11:53 - Birth preferences and plans

19:30 - Why your birthing partner needs to know your preferences and plans (and bringing them up early with everyone involved)

23:40 - Trish explains her passion for patient/student/client ability to choose to leave a practice

25:17 - What are all the different tasks an L&D nurse is doing during the entirety of labor and delivery?

29:32 - Does Trish feel like L&D nurses are as handson as she would like to be?

32:27 - What difference does a prepared partner bring to the experience?

36:52 - Informed conset and informed refusal

42:34 - Have a question? Just ask!

47:27 - Pushing

53:02 - What does “hospital policy” mean?

55:46 - How can people connect with Trish?