Some questions I was interest in are listed below – if you are interested in more, I can hook us up with a source.

• Do you get to decide how your labor will look like?
• Can you give birth at home?
• Can you choose not to take medication?
• Are there any alternatives birthing options?
• Are you free to move during labor, can you listen to music, dim the lights etc?
• Who can stay with you at the hospital?
• Can someone be with you during the labor?
• Can your partner cut the umbilical cord?
• Who can visit you in the hospital and when?
• Where does the baby sleep?
• Is skin-to-skin done?
• Is breastfeeding promoted?
• Is episiotomy a normal thing?
• When do you leave hospital?
• Is it typical for someone to move in with you for N-weeks and help around?
• Are there any special traditions that you have respected during the first 40 days after the labor?
• What role does husband/partner play in the early stage?
• Do husbands/partners get a paternal leave?
• When do women go back to work?
• How many women leave work to be stay at home moms?
• What are the main reasons for that (i.e. they genuinely want to stay with kids or find it hard to navigate both)?
• How expensive are daycares?
• How expensive are the nannies?
• Are there in-home daycares (or is there an alternative between a daycare and a nanny)?
• Are there support groups for moms?
• Can moms work remotely (what kind of jobs)?
• Can you bring the baby with you to work? do others ever do that?
• How do you spend the maternity leave?
• Does your baby sleep in the same room as you? when do you transition them out?
• Do parents co-sleep with babies and how?
• Did you feel ready when you went back to work?
• What was the hardest thing about going back to work?
• Are you breastfeeding?
• Was your decision to breastfeed impacted by knowing you have to return to work after N-weeks?
• Did anything change (breastfeeding wise) after you got back to work?
• Are you allowed to breastfeed at work and for how long?
• Are you pumping, exclusively pumping or breastfeeding or formula feeding or anything in between and why?
• Is there a system in place that supports moms with postpartum depression?
• Is there such a thing as lactation specialist?
• Was there a nurse coming to visit you/check in on you and the baby after you were released from the hospital?
• How is mother’s physical health treated? Who examines the mother and when? (Pelvic floor, diastasis, etc.)
• Did/do you take any lactation vitamins or supplements?
• About Prenatal care (
  • when do you get the maternity leave,
  • are there any changes to your salary,
  • who pays your salary – the government or the company,
  • what if you are unemployed,
  • pelvic floor specialists,
  • physiotherapy for the pelvic floor,
  • exercises,
  • courses and
  • pregnancy oriented sports
• When do you first bath the baby?
• When do you start giving solids to the baby?
• How do you introduce the solids?
• Did you sleep train the baby?

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