My daughter Stacy is pregnant again with her 3rd child. She lives on a barrier island off the coast of NC and the nearest OB and hospital is 65 miles north, She doesn't have many options for health care and childbirth with only 3 doctors to choose from, and one being the one that was horrible to her during the first one (he threatened to kick her out of the hospital and to the parking lot during that childbirth). She is having to endure a glucose test tomorrow because the MD said she "has to", and "it is required". The nurse said if she doesn't have it "the baby may die", "it is required by law" and "if you don't have it, you will be classified high risk". If she doesn't, she can be dismissed from his practice. How do nurses and doctors get away with this type of scare tactics?  She has no symptoms to indicate a need for this test, as well as no risk factors. Why is it that mothers who want to have normal, healthy pregnancies, labors and deliveries, and breastfeeding experiences have to fight, argue and submit to this type of tyranny and threats? Her friends who deliver here where I live, undergo the same type of threats and scare tactics, even though the hospital here is almost finished with being designated BabyFriendly. 
Anyone know a midwife who would like to spend the holidays on an island and do a delivery at home??
Barbara Whitehead
eastern NC






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