Make informed decisions without handing over your authority

Discernment , or ‘Just say No’ sound so simple…

Until you are sitting in an antenatal appointment
or in labour & suddenly it feels like there really aren’t any other choices to make.

But choices rarely disappear all at once.
They narrow through a series of small, seemingly harmless decisions.

The truth is that often by the time it really feels like your decision making power has left the building.

But there are micro choices available

When you understand what they are & take the opportunities

- your power stays where it should be - with you.

This is a 4 week online journey for pregnant women and their partners, who want to understand their choices, use maternity care when it serves them and feel confident questioning, waiting, insisting or declining.

We will explore:

• How self-responsibility & clinical responsibility create tension in the birth room.

• Recognising power dynamics even when its dressed up as care.

• The real meaning behind the language of “we’re just going to… ” or “can I just get you to…” and how to deal with it.

• Practical ways to prepare yourself before interacting with the medical system.

• Why discernment & self-responsible do not always mean saying no.

• How the media polarisation of medical vs natural is harming us.

• How to work collaboratively with midwives & Dr’s without surrendering your authority.

• How to prepare for difficult conversations before labour.

You are going to leave with real practical tools, important language,
greater clarity and a stronger sense of your own authority.