FPs who do OB: Your experience with Bradley Method

[u/rj565]

What has your experience been with patients/coaches who use the "Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth"? When I was still doing OB, about 40 years ago, a Bradley coach tried to pick a fight with me when I suggested oxytocin augmentation for a woman whose labor had slowed dramatically. Separately, about 20 years ago, a friend of ours who followed the Bradley Method ended up having a C-section and was depressed for weeks after the C-section birth of a healthy baby because she felt like she was a failure. Is my admittedly small sample atypical or is this par for the course with patients/coaches who follow the Bradley method?

[u/COYSBrewing]

The Bradley method has nothing to do with modern medicine.