10/01/2026
If you’re preparing for an unmedicated birth, send this to your birth partner, because the slides are just the start and there’s more below.
Say it when you arrive, and again at every shift change and with every new provider who walks in, because the nurse who heard it in the hallway at 2pm might not be the one in the room at 2am, and put it in her birth preferences too so it’s written down and not just said once.
If she hasn’t said a word but you can see her body pulling away, say “Please stop, and ask her for consent first,” because sometimes her body speaks when her words can’t reach from where she is, and when you do speak up, stand where she can see you so she knows someone heard her.
And if something happened that shouldn’t have, you can ask afterwards to speak with the charge nurse or the hospital’s patient relations office.
Nothing happens to her body without her yes, so read this together before the birth and send it to your birth partner.
Just to be clear, the provider in this photo was fabulous and always asked for my consent 🤍
