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The baby’s heart rate was fluctuating for minutes—more than the natural ebbs and flows that Natasha Sobers, a doula of seven and a half years based in San Antonio, was used to seeing in the delivery room. “My gut was telling me I needed to walk out and say something,” she said. “You always want to straddle this fine line of not wanting to tell someone how to do their job,  but it was enough to be concerned.”A nurse who had stepped in during a shift change had increased her client’s levels of the labor-inducing drug Pitocin. When Sobers alerted the on-duty nurse about the concern, she was met with gratitude, and the nurse immediately lowered the drug level. In a postpartum birth conversation, Sobers…

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