Choices, was: Wise Traditions - GAPS

[Guest guest]

This statement does not make sense to me:

Not everyone has access to a midwife. Due to my insurance, I didn't have the

choice. They do not allow midwives at the hospital I gave birth in.

How does insurance limit your choices? It limits what they will pay for, but

doesn't impact your choice. You have the choice to pay for services that

insurance doesn't cover. Your financial situation and your other spending

choices limit your choices, not your insurance.

Gosh, if I only used medical care that was covered by my insurance, I'd be a

very sick woman! I'm incredibly thankful I have an outstanding acupuncturist

and herbalist to help undo all the damage modern medicine did to me! But,

she isn't covered by my insurance either. I make other financial sacrifices

so I can continue to use what I think is the best medical care available to

me.

This group, more than any other understands choices. We make choices to

consume raw milk (most people think it will kill us!), choices to consume

grass-fed and free-range meat and dairy (most people think that's just a

rip-off!), and choices to spend our time reading groups like this one to

learn more about the choices we will make in the future.

Kathy

Re: Wise Traditions - GAPS

Not everyone has access to a midwife. Due to my insurance, I didn't have the

choice. They do not allow midwives at the hospital I gave birth in.

On Jan 26, 2008 2:58 PM, KerryAnn at CookingTF.com <kerryann@...

<mailto:kerryann%40cookingtf.com> >

wrote:

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> Actually, C-sections for a breech birth is due to OBs not having the

> necessary skill set to deliver certain types of breeches. Studies show

> certain types of breech births are safer vaginally than by C-section.

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[Guest guest]

On Jan 27, 2008 6:21 AM, Kathy Dickson <kathy.dickson@...> wrote:

> This statement does not make sense to me:

>

> Not everyone has access to a midwife. Due to my insurance, I didn't have

> the

> choice. They do not allow midwives at the hospital I gave birth in.

>

> How does insurance limit your choices? It limits what they will pay for,

> but

> doesn't impact your choice. You have the choice to pay for services that

> insurance doesn't cover. Your financial situation and your other spending

> choices limit your choices, not your insurance.

>

Hi, Kathy,

I wasn't working and did not have money to pay a midwife. I also did not

have any insurance when I got pregnant. It was an unplanned and unexpected

pregnancy.

The way insurance works, they call pregnancy a " pre-existing condition " so I

was unable to get insurance.

Even if I had gone out and gotten a job, they would not have covered me

since it was a pre-existing condition!

I did find that I could qualify for a government program in California that

would cover me fully. They paid for all my prenatal care and the birth.

The birth ended up costing over $30K due to the fact that the baby was

breech and I needed a c-section.

Thank god I had insurance.

Ann Marie

[Guest guest]

>

> I did find that I could qualify for a government program in

California that

> would cover me fully. They paid for all my prenatal care and the

birth.

>

> The birth ended up costing over $30K due to the fact that the baby was

> breech and I needed a c-section.

>

> Thank god I had insurance.

>

> Ann Marie

>

>

Medicaid and MediCal pay for homebirths and many breech babies are born

at home without all of the medical interference. It's all about

researching your options. OB/GYN and hosp love C-sections, that's why

your birth cost $30K. My 11 lb 9 oz was breech and was turned around

by going to my Chiropractor and him doing a certain technique two weeks

prior to birth. Midwives know about this and that is how I found out

to go to my chiropractor. All in all my homebirth with a previously

breech baby cost $1900. That's it and I had Medicaid that paid for it

all as it was a pre-existing condition for me too. Don't blindly

accept what " THEY " tell you without a thorough investigation on your

part.

[Guest guest]

Hi, thanks for this... however I didn't blindly to into this and I did do my

research -- quite extensively! I read every book obsessively including

" Spiritual Midwifery " etc.

I couldn't find a midwife close to me unless I had a home birth. There are

no birthing centers close to my home (closest one is over an hour away with

no traffic). That birthing center also did not accept my insurance.

Neither I nor my husband were very comfortable with a home birth. We found a

hospital we were both comfortable with.

My doctor did not know my baby was breech until 1 week before the due date.

We found out via ultrasound -- and also found out that she was already over

8 pounds. We did try lots of things to turn her but it didn't work.

I feel that this was the best choice for our family and it was not something

I did without doing a lot of research.

Ann Marie

> Medicaid and MediCal pay for homebirths and many breech babies are born

> at home without all of the medical interference. It's all about

> researching your options. OB/GYN and hosp love C-sections, that's why

> your birth cost $30K. My 11 lb 9 oz was breech and was turned around

> by going to my Chiropractor and him doing a certain technique two weeks

> prior to birth. Midwives know about this and that is how I found out

> to go to my chiropractor. All in all my homebirth with a previously

> breech baby cost $1900. That's it and I had Medicaid that paid for it

> all as it was a pre-existing condition for me too. Don't blindly

> accept what " THEY " tell you without a thorough investigation on your

> part.

>

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