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This is so true and yet in our local paper there was a big front
page article on the increased Caesar rate in geelong and they are
blaming the "mothers are choosing them"
The mothers are given the options and are deciding to have caesar's
more.
The doctors say things like - We wont let you go past this or it
would be better to do a c/s at this time etc and they are NOT making the
decisions it is up to the woman to do that. Humph!
I sat all night trying to word a decent reply but it just made me
so cross that I was forced to have c/s and they are now saying that in
the past 6 yrs in Geelong Caesarean births have doubled to more than 10%
outside the WHO guidelines. but this is the mothers fault!
AHHH!!!!
Well, where is this choice??
I am cross tonight anyway because my son came home from care with
mucky eyes (he has a cold) and I thought I would go the evening clinic
(open til 8pm) and get some eye drops for conjunctivitis - they had not
only changed the time from 8pm to 6pm and I was there before 6.
But said that as they had one person waiting they turned away a 2yr old
sick child so they could go home on time. I was furious and have
him at home with boiled water to rinse his eyes - any suggestions for
natural remedy for conjunctivitis?
I was thinking all the way home - who took the CARE out of Health
care. Coz it sure has got lost somewhere in the system.
Thanks
Rhonda.
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Date: Wednesday, July
03, 2002 07:40:40
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gripe
Can I just vent a little?
My new workplace is frustrating me.. I'm working in
the Antenatal Clinic atm as part of my Midwifery graduate program, and
not enjoying being a handmaiden to the doctors at all. It's
privatised, so I open the history to the right page, call the woman in
and do her BP and the doc does the rest. Not very satisfying.
Today, walking past one of the rooms, I overheard a doctor say "we
won't let you go over 38 weeks"... I know there is possibly a
reason for this, but I really hate the language they use... 'won't
let".. as if the woman has no say at all. I mentioned this to the
midwife incharge, and she said, 'of course it's not up to her!" I was so
shocked!!! "But it's her body! He can't do anything to her unless she
says so..." etc, etc. I just said that there could have been a
better way of putting it, like, 'My advice is..." The midwife just shook
her head at me and turned away. I couldn't believe it
:(
And the other thing... one of the pamphlets they
routinely hand out down there is one about 'Never shake a baby".
The first thing it says to try if your baby is crying and not hungry or
dirty is to give it a bottle of water!!! They still do that on the
post natal wards over night at this hospital if a baby is crying and is
breast fed! I said to another co-worker how appalled I was that
they suggest this, not even mentioning age appropriateness... just
simply, 'give your baby a bottle of water'. And she said, "yeah?
what else would you do then? Have you ever had a baby that cries
constantly?" she proceeded to tell me how she thinks all maternal
and child health nurses should have their own babies before giving out
advice, etc etc...
Not happy, Jan :(
And I haven't even told you anything about the birth
suite yet :(
Jo
Be happy; for every minute you're angry you lose 60
seconds of happiness.
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