design and birthing: ablerism.micro.blog
@ablerism I am so excited for what you’ll write about this (and congrats on the fellowship!).
I’ll admit to becoming a little radicalized watching The Business of Being Born and talking with the doula for our first born. My sister in law has since given birth twice in Manhattan and that has just confirmed things! She was regularly asked when the birth would be, nearly everyone has them scheduled for either induction or C-section. Just waiting around to go into labor was considered odd.
@isaacgreene That film was life changing for me as well! I did two home births and one birth center, all with CNMs of course. Feel so fortunate. The work that piece describes gives me so much hope.
@ablerism Very much looking forward to your writing on the topic! As someone who went to nursing school thinking I wanted to become a CNM, and has subsequently worked on both a high-risk L&D hospital unit and now in a high-acuity NICU unit (to say nothing of having given birth three times (x1 w/ OB, x2 with CNMs)), I have, as you may imagine, thoughts. :) I’m really very interested to read about all of it from a design perpsective!
@bethanyh Wonderful to hear of this expertise! This will be a slow unfolding for the next several years, really. May reach out to you. Thanks for the vote of confidence!