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Marin General Hospital is one of the only Bay Area hospitals with 24/7 midwife services. Camille believes her delivery at Marin General was the best of both worlds: a home birth experience in the safety of a modern hospital. She describes her daughter Sienna’s birth as “an incredible experience.” The nurses, doula and midwife worked together in perfect synchronicity and their presence was nurturing, calming and supportive. Because of her past C-section, Camille had continuous fetal monitoring, but she was able to walk around and even labor in the shower for a while because Marin General Hospital offers fetal monitoring with telemetry (without cords) . The doula provided aroma therapy and suggested various labor positions. She and Camille’s husband were there throughout the birth, with the midwife coming in periodically to check on Camille’s progress. Everyone honored Camille’s wish for an un-medicated birth, and the word “epidural” was never mentioned. When it came time to push, both the midwife and nurse were fully supportive of Camille’s chosen laboring position, leaning over the edge of the bed and squatting with the midwife sitting behind her cross-legged on the floor. Camille actually helped deliver her own baby and pulled her new daughter up onto her own chest. The birth team encouraged immediate skin-to-skin contact, and the baby lay on Camille’s chest for a long time before being weighed, bathed and given the necessary eye drops. Camille was able to initiate breastfeeding shortly after giving birth.