Submitted by KathleenMD on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 16:15
I was taught in medical school never to leave a newborn delivery without discussing birth control with the new mother. The exhausted, delighted mothers and smiling fathers would always give the physician a puzzled look when asked, minutes after delivery, what their birth control plans were. It seemed like a rude, dark interruption of the joyful fleeting moments after the miracle of birth.