You know, the recent mention on another thread about doulas and the Bradley Method gave me a thought. As a LDRP nurse and a childbirth educator, I am familiar with the Bradley method. Personally, I have always thought it to be a very good approach to comfort in labor.
My question for all of you out there is why are so many Bradley instructors so confrontational? I work in a very low intervention, progressive LDRP. We let people do their own thing as long as they and the baby are well (which is most of the time). On more than one occasion I have cared for Bradley prepared couples who, after the labor and birth are over, find that they are very unhappy with their Bradley training, citing the reason being that the instructor scared them unnecessarily and the experience, hospital, nurses, doc, personnel, etc., were not nearly as "bad" as the instructor had made them out to be. I find it so unfortunate that so many of these Bradley prepared couples come into the hospital already on the defensive.
Do you all think that is the mindset of the instructor, the mindset of Bradley couples (generalizing here) or what?
After studying the Bradley Method, I am always sorry that it gets such a bad reputation among health care providers. Sometimes I think these couples are set up to fail before they even start; mostly because they have been so prepared to expect the worst in the hospital.
Thanks for your input. Not trying to make any knocks on the Bradley Method or anything. Just curious as to what some of you out there might have to say about this topic.
How do guys like that get away with it? We nurses ought to be doing more when we see that sort of abusive behavior. We had a guy mildly like that and thank goodness he decided he didn't like us and he left. Our gain, that's for sure. I and several others wrote him up over the course of his time with us. He went back into the service.
You know, the recent mention on another thread about doulas and the Bradley Method gave me a thought. As a LDRP nurse and a childbirth educator, I am familiar with the Bradley method. Personally, I have always thought it to be a very good approach to comfort in labor.
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How do guys like that get away with it? We nurses ought to be doing more when we see that sort of abusive behavior. We had a guy mildly like that and thank goodness he decided he didn't like us and he left. Our gain, that's for sure. I and several others wrote him up over the course of his time with us. He went back into the service.