I just want to drive this point home. To the extent that insurance and location will allow, pick your provider (and birth center) like your life depends on it. Ask them their stance on your maternal mortality risks and believe them if their response is unsatisfactory or dismissive.
If a child has asthma and attends school where the PE teachers and administrators don’t believe in asthma, they will not identify him as higher risk. When they treat that child just like all of the other children, that child is at a disadvantage and is more likely to have an unrecognized or preventable asthma-related issue. You wouldn’t send your child to a place that ignores his or her unique health risks. Don’t go to a birth center or provider that ignores yours.
