This farang mother recounts how she navigated the medical system in Chiang Mai to find support for her desire for an active, natural birth, and the wonderful Thai midwife who made it all possible.
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An American married to a Thai, Amy chose Bumrungrad to birth for the high quality of medical care and a doctor whose approach to birth and breastfeeding matched her own. Aidan was born after a short but intense labor to elated parents.
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An expat living in Cambodia, Rachel came to Bangkok to give birth to Jazz just as Cyclone Nargis was descending on Myanmar. Her attempt at natural birth became an emergency c-section after infection set in. This is a series of three articles that originally appeared in Slate Magazine
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Originally a skeptic about natural birth, this mother’s birth experience with hypnobirthing and the assistance of a doula completely turned her expectations around.
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Based on a remote village in Krabi province, Jill came to Bangkok Phuket Hospital to deliver, where she had a great natural birth with the assistance of a supportive doctor and nursing team.
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After suffering difficulties with postpartum depression after her first child’s birth by emergency cesarean, Kerstin was determined to try for a VBAC. Along the way, she convinced the hospital to agree to change their normal policy of separating mother and baby after surgery, just in case she had another c-section.
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