If you’ve taken my class, you’ve learned more than one acronym for self-advocacy strategies in not just labor/birth, but in any medical scenario — prenatal, at the pediatrician, with your GP/PCP — really, anytime you want to make an informed decision. In my years of doing this work, these strategies have been a gamechanger for countless people I’ve worked with as well as for myself in my own first birth. Because it’s so powerful, I wanted to share it on the blog in a clear and concise way today.
So here’s the acronym and what each letter stands for. I talk about this acronym on episode 84 of the BIRTH MATTERS podcast (starting in the endnotes at around 49:00), so tune in there if you’d like to hear a detailed, more compelling explanation.
The BRAIN acronym for medical self-advocacy