Good Samaritan Hospital

As a Doula, I get to experience many hospitals, doctors, midwifes, nurses, and everything else in the mix of labor and delivery.  It is so fascinating to my brain that no matter what training you have, or how many babies you have, no birth is ever the same, and the most important thing is to be present and feel now, and take care of mama.

So I had the pleasure of working with the midwife run labor and delivery at Good Samaritan Hospital near Downtown Los Angeles, and I feel this should be the model for every hospital.  I had beautiful experiences at Cedars Sinai for my three births, but I also had my dream team of my amazing Dr. Ghozland and my Doula Gilli, who along with my husband helped created an environment which let me let go of control while being completely in control.

So what I loved about "Good Sam" as they call the hospital, was that the doctor on staff, Dr. Chang, was the most calm, knowledgeable, caring, clear, and woman focused doctor that I have met to date.  He gave my client so many options, and ultimately a beautiful healthy baby.  If everything was healthy in the pregnancy, you can go upto 24 hours from the time the water breaks, freely, at home, with no worries, until checking in with the hospital.  In this circumstance, the hospital allowed them to just sleep there to monitor the baby, but with no interventions necessary for as long as it took for them to make another decision.

Bottom line is, it was totally the other side of our medically managed births of today, no deadlines, just really explaining to the parents in detail all of their options, and saying OK with no pressure to what was chosen.

Feeling so blessed to be part of the support team,
Had a Beautiful Shabbat with my family and our community,
So much to celebrate,
Birth is a Miracle,
Thank God this is my calling,
it is where I need to be,
educating and supporting women everywhere in choosing the direction of their birth process in the moment,
you can only prepare so much,
there is nothing like it in the world,
and it makes no sense,
we are designed to function so precisely,
trust your body,
trust your baby,
trust you,
Coach Yulia

He  is the only one still up, and now we are both saying, Good Night