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What's Your Birthing Style?
Take This Quiz to Find Out!
By Carma Haley Shoemaker
Are you an as-nature-intended-it mom or a true believer in the latest technology? Take this quiz to find your birthing style.
Birthing Style Quiz
1. Your doctor informs you that you're pregnant. You immediately:A. Ask about anesthesia.
B. Check out pregnancy and childbirth books from your local library.
C. Register for Bradley classes.
2. Morning sickness has invaded your body. To deal with it, you:
A. Call your doctor and ask her to prescribe you vitamin B6.
B. Check your supply of soda crackers and ginger ale.
C. Ask your midwife for an herbal remedy.
3. When a question about pregnancy or childbirth arises, you:
A. Ask your doctor; he knows best.
B. Consult a pregnancy book from your home library.
C. Ask friends that have already experienced natural childbirth.
4. Your perfect birth experience includes:
A. Induction, fetal monitors, an epidural, your significant other and plenty of doctors and nurses.
B. A birthing suite, a comfortable bed, a midwife or doctor and your significant other.
C. Your home, your bed, your doula, your midwife and family and friends of your choosing.
5. You view episiotomies as:
A. Part of the package.
B. Medically necessary for some women but hopefully not you.
C. Overused, often unnecessary and borderline mutilation.
6. While sharing her birth experience, your best friend insists that epidurals are God's gift to women. You:
A. Couldn't agree more and have already informed everyone that you WILL be having an epidural.
B. Hope she's right but still worry about that big needle.
C. Can't believe that she would want to miss out on such an amazing experience.
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