Why is it important to take an active role in decisions about your medical care? How does the process of shared decision making work? To what extent does the responsibility of making decisions rest on you? What is informed consent? What if you don’t want to know about all the scary things that can happen and would rather the medical team decide everything for you? What is a midwife, what is their training and how safe is it to receive perinatal care from one? 

 

Pamela Hetrick, a certified nurse midwife, answers all of these questions and more! Pamela is a Certified Nurse Midwife in a suburb of Cleveland, OH for the past 18 years and has been in the birth world for about 25 years. She also owns a consulting company, Hetrick Consulting LLC, which provides expert witnessing consultation for both sides of the fence (plaintiff and defense). She also runs an educational Instagram account known as @fairymidmother. You can reach her by email [email protected].

 

 

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