absurdity

So we have a client in our group who recently changed to N Fulton because she found out that water birth is an option there. She had asked her doctor at Piedmont about water births but they told her they did not offer them anywhere in Atlanta... hmmmm... so when she found out they did- she changed in her eighth month!

So the policy at North Fulton is in order to have a water birth you must take this 3 hour required water birth class and pay $30 to do so. But guess what? In December they offered it only one time instead of the usual two times. It has already occurred for December. The next one is two days before her due date!

I told her to pitch a fit to the hospital administrator about it! It is absurd to require a class that you then require payment for and then only offer it one time in a month due to the holiday!

I feel the nice little birth center we have had at North Fulton is becoming polluted with policies that do not have the mothers best interest in mind! I feel policies are about covering their butts- instead of meeting the moms needs.

I spoke to my friend- one of the midwives there today and she said "its the rule" and most of the policies were established by one doctor who is not even there any longer. Absurd! Ridiculous. But as she said to me tonight- it is still the best birth situation in town.

I hate that there is pollution in the water of the minds of administration that is polluting the birth experiences that used to be so pure there... augh!