Every patient has certain rights. The American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists endorses the pregnant patient’s rights to understand her treatment and
her options.
These rights are summarized from The Pregnant Patient’s Bill of Rights,
prepared by the International Childbirth Education Association.
Each pregnant patient has the right:
to be informed of the effects and risks of medicines and procedures on her and her baby
to be told of all possible alternatives and options in treatment and procedures
to choose for herself, without pressure from any health care provider, whether or not she and her baby will accept medicines, treatments, and procedures
to know the names and qualifications of anyone who treats her
to be accompanied through labor and birth by a friend, partner, or family member
to labor and birth in the position most comfortable to her, if it’s medically sound
to ask that a different nurse be assigned to her if she does not care for or get along with a nurse or staff member
to care for her baby at her bedside, if her baby is healthy.
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