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Mission
San Diego Birth Network is a group of dedicated professionals that support mothers, babies, and families during the prenatal, birth and postpartum period. Our mission is to create a place that allows families the confidence that the professionals listed believe in the natural process of birth. That they uphold and abide by the mother and baby friendly principles listed below.
Principles
Normalcy of the Birthing Process
- Birth is a normal, natural, and healthy process.
- Women and babies have the inherent wisdom necessary for birth.
- Babies are aware, sensitive human beings at the time of birth, and should be acknowledged and treated as such.
- Breastfeeding provides the optimum nourishment for newborns and infants.
- Birth can safely take place in hospitals, birth centers, and homes.
Empowerment
- A woman’s confidence and ability to give birth and to care for her baby are enhanced or diminished by every person who gives her care, and by the environment in which she gives birth.
- A mother and baby are distinct yet interdependent during pregnancy, birth, and infancy. Their interconnected–ness is vital and must be respected.
- Pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period are milestone events in the continuum of life. These experiences profoundly affect women, babies, fathers, and families, and have important and long-lasting effects on society.
Autonomy
- Every woman should have the opportunity to:
- Have a healthy and joyous birth experience for herself and her family, regardless of her age or circumstances;
- Give birth as she wishes in an environment in which she feels nurtured and secure, and her emotional well-being, privacy, and personal preferences are respected;
- Have access to the full range of options for pregnancy, birth, and nurturing her baby, and to accurate information on all available birthing sites, caregivers, and practices;
- Receive accurate and up-to-date information about the benefits and risks of all procedures, drugs, and tests suggested for use during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period, with the rights to informed consent and informed refusal;
- Receive support for making informed choices about what is best for her and her baby based on her individual values and beliefs.
Do No Harm
- Interventions should not be applied routinely during pregnancy, birth, or the postpartum period. Many standard medical tests, procedures, technologies, and drugs carry risks to both mother and baby, and should be avoided in the absence of specific scientific indications for their use.
- If complications arise during pregnancy, birth, or the postpartum period, medical treatments should be evidence-based.
Responsibility
- Each caregiver is responsible for the quality of care she or he provides.
- Maternity care practice should be based not on the needs of the caregiver or provider, but solely on the needs of the mother and child.
- Each hospital and birth center is responsible for the periodic review and evaluation, according to current scientific evidence, of the effectiveness, risks, and rates of use of its medical procedures for mothers and babies.
- Society, through both its government and the public health establishment, is responsible for ensuring access to maternity services for all women, and for monitoring the quality of those services.
- Individuals are ultimately responsible for making informed choices about the health care they and their babies receive.
San Diego Birth Network Forum Use Agreement
San Diego Birth Network Forum is an interactive online discussion forum for those experiencing pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, birth and parenting. It is intended to be supportive and advance the positive experience of birthing and services related thereto. It is NOT intended to be a forum for complaints. Any concerns you may have about a birthing provider should be discussed directly with your provider.
You are ONLY authorized to use this Forum by accepting this Agreement. By using this Forum you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to the Agreement, or that you had the opportunity to do so, but have agreed to this Agreement at your risk without doing so. Due to the foregoing, please print and read the Agreement carefully before further accessing this Site. This Agreement includes our acceptable use policy for content posted by you upon the Forum and other terms and conditions related thereto. This Agreement may be modified by us from time to time without prior notice, such modifications to be agreed and effective upon your next use of the Forum. "San Diego Birth Network" may be referenced by "we", "us", “our”, etc. ., which terms include our firm and any of its affiliates, and all of the owners, officers, employees, agents and independent contractors of each of them.
Eligibility
You must be an adult to use the Forum, or if you are between the age of 13 and the age of majority in your area, you and your parent or other guardian must read and agree to this Agreement, and your parent or other guardian must click the “ENTER” button. If you are under the age of 13, you must NOT use this Site, and you must leave this Site immediately. The Forum is void where prohibited. By using the Forum, you represent and warrant that you have the right, authority, and capacity to enter into this Agreement and that you shall abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
BY CLICKING ON THE "ENTER" BUTTON and by supplying US with your sign-up information for the FORUM, you are acknowledging that you are bound by the agreement set forth BELOW
San Diego Birth Network makes NO representation that the user submissions (“Content”) offered on this Forum are appropriate for access outside of the United States. If you are accessing this Forum from outside the United States, you are doing so on your own initiative and risk, and you are solely responsible for compliance with your local laws. If you are in doubt, consult legal counsel in your locality for advice regarding what Content may be legally available to you prior to using the Forum.
Term
This Agreement will remain in full force and effect while you use the Forum. You may terminate your registration at any time for any reason by following the instructions on the Cancel Forum Registration page. San Diego Birth Network may terminate your registration for any reason at any time without notice. If your Membership is terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect.
Your Submissions
Any submission provided to the Forum is on a non-confidential and non-proprietary basis.
While we do not and cannot review every message posted by users in the Forum and are not responsible for the content of any of these messages, we reserve the right to delete, move or edit messages that we, in our sole discretion, deem to be a violation of this Agreement, the prohibitions shown below, or the law, including termination of your registration.
