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
Subject:
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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