Topics of this game:
- Artificially breaking the bag of waters
- A document expressing the family's desires in a normal birth, and also for possible complications
- A variation from normal birth which carries an increased risk; some are relatively minor (posterior or breech), some are major (prolapsed cord, hemorrhage).
- An approach to childbearing wherein the parents take the active decision-making role, with the active support and consultation of carefully selected medical professionals.
- Any condition of pregnancy which creates an increase in risk over normal
- The act of agreeing to a medical procedure after receiving information regarding its benefits and risks, then weighing them and making up your own minds. Refusal must be an option as well
- Intravenous; administration into a vein
- A normal pregnancy, may have many variations but remains within the normal risk range
- Being able to express your preferences and decisions in such a way as to retain the enthusiastic support of your birth team
- Recognizing the inherent risk of childbearing and the irreducible hazards. Also, being realistic about what kind of support you can expect to receive from the birth team and birth place you have chosen. Accepting the normal variations in labor and birth regarding time, work, and pain.
