Your Legal Rights in the Birth Room w/ Hermine Hayes-Klein

Signing the general consent form when you walk into the hospital does not mean you have agreed to everything that follows. Not the Pitocin. Not the vaginal exam. Not the electronic fetal monitor. Not the cesarean. Not the hospital policy. Every single one of those still requires your informed consent. I had the privilege of sitting down with Hermine Hayes-Klein — an attorney who has spent 25 years specializing in women's rights in pregnancy and childbirth. She moved to the Netherlands while pregnant with her first baby, watched a completely different birth system up close for five years, came home, and became a lawyer who takes the birth cases nobody else will touch. The ones where the baby is okay but the mama is not. She represents the women nobody is fighting for. And she wins. What Hermine shares about your actual rights in the birth room is the kind of information that changes how you walk into every single prenatal appointment and ultimately into your birth. 👇 WATCH / LISTEN & SAVE THIS EPISODE FOR LATER 👇 What You'll Learn in This Episode 00:00 – Intro 02:01 – Meet Hermine & how she got into birth rights law 08:45 – The real cases behind her work 18:32 – What informed consent actually means in the birth room 27:15 – How to use your birth plan as an informed consent tool 34:18 – Hospital policies and your legal rights 41:22 – What to put in your hospital bag from a legal standpoint 48:33 – The five sets of risks every mama deserves to weigh 54:19 – Induction, breech, electronic fetal monitoring & AMA 1:08:42 – How to hold your ground without being rude ✨ WANT TO FEEL CONFIDENT & PREPARED FOR BIRTH? Check out the My Essential Birth Course and learn how to prepare your mind, body, and birth partner so you can approach labor with clarity and confidence. 👉 My Essential Birth Course: https://www.myessentialbirth.com/gets... 👉 3 FREE Exercises for Your BEST Birth: https://www.myessentialbirth.com/3-ex... Connect with Hermine: 🌐 Website: Hayes Klein Law: https://www.hayeskleinlaw.com/ 📱 Instagram:   / herminehayesklein   📄 ACOG Ethics Committee Opinion — Maternal Refusal of Medically Recommended Treatment (June 2016) 📄 ACOG Committee Opinion on VBAC 📄 ACOG Committee Opinion on Breech 📄 Your state's informed consent statute 👍 LIKE this video if every pregnant mama needs to hear this 💬 COMMENT with what surprised you most 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for weekly pregnancy, birth & mindset support #BirthRights #InformedConsent #LaborRights #PregnancyPodcast #HospitalBirth #BirthPreparation #ObstetricViolence #EmpoweredBirth #KnowYourRights #ChildbirthAttorney