Gina Mundy has spent over 23 years as a birth injury attorney, analyzing labor and delivery cases to understand why things go wrong, and how families can prepare before they ever step into a delivery room. She's the author of A Parent's Guide to a Safer Childbirth and host of The Childbirth Attorney Podcast.

In this episode, we talk about the patterns Gina sees over and over in birth injury cases, starting with Pitocin and artificial rupture of membranes. Gina walks through what "slow and steady" actually means with an induction, what the drug manufacturer's own guidelines say about dosing, and why breaking the water is rarely the risk-free intervention it's presented as. She also shares what a Cochrane review of 15,000 deliveries found about doulas and outcomes, and why she recommends one to every family she talks to.

In this episode, we cover:

  • The pattern behind most birth injury cases, and why spontaneous vaginal births are rarely involved
  • What "slow and steady" means with a Pitocin induction, and what the manufacturer's own guidelines recommend
  • Why breaking the water is treated as routine, and what it's actually correlated with in her cases
  • How to tell when you're being pressured into an intervention versus given a real medical indication
  • What the research says about doulas and C-section, operative delivery, and intervention rates

Connect with Gina at https://GinaMundy.com or on Instagram at @ginamundy.

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*As always, this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice.

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