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Great, I'm safe with these people.

They're professionals.

If anything was to go wrong, they would recognize it as

it was happening or before it was happening. I believe my body will do what it's supposed to do.

That's why I chose midwifery over the route of choosing an OBGYN doctor.

I thought the birth center would be a happy medium between the hospital setting and the home birth setting.

We assumed that these people were professionals that were being regulated by the state of Texas.

They claimed to be upheld to these really high standards of care.

I did a lot of research and found a birth center in Dallas.

Little did we know it would turn out to be a total nightmare.

I had spots in my vision.

Jennifer told me that, oh, that's nothing to be worried about.

It's not in my chart, but I was leaking maconium all night.

I said, is it illegal?

And they nodded.

Like, yeah, it's illegal.

Then when I was taking the screenshots, that's when I realized, oh my gosh, they changed something.

To have a student taking care of someone without their preceptor there, to me, is below the standard of care.

That is putting your client at a huge risk.

And this is when all hell breaks loose.

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