Hitting the right notes.
In this guest editorial, the author discusses her personal birth experiences, how her health-care provider's perceptions affected her care management, and how advocates for mother-friendly maternity care can impact the perceptions of health-care providers, families, and communities by using the most powerful messages about the value of natural birth.
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BERNA DIEHL is the mother of three boys. Her first child was born via cesarean surgery, and her other children were born by VBAC.