When Rebecca was pregnant with her first child, she planned to go to the hospital and do as she was told. She gave birth at the same hospital where she is completing her PhD in Nursing, so one of her goals for this birth is for the nurses to like her! He didn’t want to be one of “those” patients they gossiped about at the nurse’s station. But when Rebecca arrived at the hospital, she received treatments that were more than 20 years out of date. He also experienced complications that seemed avoidable. Worst of all for Rebecca, however, she spent several hours after the birth begging to see her own daughter!
Three years later, and pregnant again, Rebecca did some research to find out she was going to do something different this time. She hired a midwife and planned a waterbirth at home using Hypnobabies® techniques. The type of care he received was very different from his first birth. Rebecca felt so empowered after this birth, and it changed the entire course of her life.
Rebecca Dekker’s bio
Rebecca is the founder of Evidence-Based Birth® and the author of Babies Are Not Pizzas: They Are Born, Not Delivered! Dr. Dekker is the mother of three children, ages 5, 7, and 10, and earned a bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD in Nursing. She has built a strong reputation in maternal and infant health groups for her pioneering work as the founder of Evidence Based Birth. families and communities, so they can make informed, empowered choices.
Social media contact information: You can follow Dr. Dekker by signing up for her newsletter on the home page of EvidenceBasedBirth.com, and you can follow EBB on Facebook (Evidence Based Birth) and Instagram (@ebbirth). Her book, Babies Are Not Pizzas, is available at Amazon.
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