Babies Are Not Pizzas: They're Born, Not Delivered

One in three births is traumatic.

It doesn't have to be that way.

Like many first-time parents, Rebecca walked into labor and delivery as a healthy pregnant person and walked out as a statistic-as someone who had a traumatic birth.

Rebecca planned to give birth at the hospital affiliated with her university, where she was an award-winning nurse researcher finishing her doctoral degree. But hospital practices and policies that were more than twenty years out of date left her with complication...