Your OB (or midwife) still does WHAT? (Pitocin Rate)
Janelle over at the Birth Sense blog is rapidly becoming one of my favorite blogs because of her very well written posts that include references to current research findings. Using one of my comments as a spring board for a post made my day today, because once again, she has provided references to current research that is of use to laboring women.
Janelle writes:
Over the 28 years I’ve been a labor nurse and then a midwife, I’ve seen protocols for pitocin (oxytocin) inductions and augmentation come and go. High dose protocols were common for a while, then low-dose protocols were in vogue. Knitted in the Womb recently wrote about her experience with a midwife who clearly did not have her client’s best interests at heart when she mismanaged a pitocin induction:
If you want to read the rest of the story, you’ll have to go over and read it from Janelle. And please, browse around while you are there, because it is GREAT reading. 
Tags: Induction, midwife, pitocin