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Dear Denise:
Next month (october) I will be in Cleveland, giving
a lecture about Humanization on Childirth in Case Western University, showing my
own experience with birth. It will take several years to transform birth in
Brasil in a women centered and cientifically based assistance, and I
honestly think that doulas is a valid way to do that.
I would love to know Sydney, and I am sure I will
do that someday, bur still have to get enough money to do that.
Andrea... I will read the doula articles you
wrote, Andrea.
I know it's controversial, but I don't think that
allowing parents to enter the obstetric ward colides with the idea of having a
doula to give assistance to the laboring woman.
Nurses in my country don't have time to do that.
They are a few in the hospital, and are involved in burocratic stuff. It's
almost impossible to see a 1 to 1 care with nurses here. And, besides that,
universities in Brasil graduates nurses as tecnocratic as doctors. That's a hard
scenario, but that's why we all here... to change a bit and to give a better
world to our kids... :o)
Anyway, I am opened to that discussion, and I want
to learn ALL the alternatives to give dignity and power to women giving
birth.
Kisses !!!
Ric
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Dear ricardo
Welcome
Are you coming to the International meeting of
OBs in Sydney next month??
Denise hynd
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Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 4:29
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Hello everybody:
My name is Ricardo Herbert Jones
I am an obstetrician from Brasil, and had the
pleasure of meeting Andrea Robertson this year in a Congress about
Humanization of Childbirth in São Paulo, Brasil.
As an obstetrician I would like to share
experiences with midwives and doulas all around the world, because I think
that humanization of birth is an issue that has to do with every single
person in this planet. Even thou only women deliver babies (yet - who knows
where the tecnocratic paradygm will takes us?) all of us were once
born, and lived during a limited time in a woman´s womb. Were we rescued
from there by doctors and eletronic devices or were we cherished by mom´s
tender body till we entered this world? These are different ways of looking
to the same event. As I grew old (I am 43 now, and work with births from 20
years) I learned that women shall be treated with caress and
gentleness. Birth in our tecnocratic society is seen as a mechanic
phenomenon, and doctors usually see their patients as objects, and not as
persons and subjects. That´s a terrible thing, because it´s a human´s right
problem.
I am one of the leaders of Rehuna
(Humanization of Childbirth Network - Brasil) and our struggle now is to
empower women in their decisions about chilbirth and force the government
area to humanize the assistance to women in the public hospitals. The first
step is a doula project, called "Friends in Light", to graduate doulas and
doula trainners in Rio de Janeiro.
Ok, as u can see my english is not quite well,
and I love to talk too much...
Hope I can get good advices from you
all.
Ricardo Herbert Jones
Ob/Gyn and Homeopath
Porto Alegre - Brasil
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