#384 | Military Maternity Care in Sicily: Tara’s Birth Story
About this episode
Tara shares her challenging birth experience while stationed in Sicily, highlighting the pressures and interventions she faced.
Tara was pregnant and stationed with her husband in Sicily, where military rules required her to give birth at the naval hospital on base. What followed was a birth marked by pressure, fear-based counseling, an induction she did not want, repeated talk of a C-section, and a series of interventions that often seemed to create more questions than answers. In this episode, Tara shares how late fetal heart rate decelerations led her care team to tell her that refusing induction could result...
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