Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 6:42
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Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Hello - Brasil
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Hello to you Ricardo....
I have taken the liberty of forwarding your
posting on to a coleague of mine and will ask that he table it at the next
meeting of RANZCOG (Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Obstetricians
and Gynaecologists). You are right - the humanisation of birth IS a
global issue, and it is essential that where change is happening, and where
efforts are being made to honour and respect women in birth (or women as
people) that as many people know about it as possible.
Sometimes when my heart is heavy about the things
we are witness to every day in birth, I think about the situation in other
countries where the plight is much worse for women generally in their lives,
birth being such an important part, and this helps to put things
into perspective.
There is so much to be done - the technocratic
wheel is in full spin and spinning furiously, and it will take a mammoth
effort on many people's part to slow the spin, even just a little. But the
speed of the wheel slows in many places, as people such as yourself and many
others, work to keep birth as it should be, alive and well,
insisting that women should be treated, as you so beautifully
express, 'with caress and gentleness'.
As a dear friend and colleague of mine says
"It matters how babies come into this world" and in my midwifery
experience (I am old, like yourself! Even older!!) of almost 20 years, every
birth I accompany a woman on shows me afresh how much it does matter,
and how respectful of birth we must be - not only for women, but for
ourselves as those who are the privileged ones to be with women at this time
(because each birth contibutes to, and helps shape our individual
philosophy of birth, and thus, how we are when we are with all of the
subsequent women we care for), but also for the future of humankind. The
"kind" on the end of human seems ironic at times, does it not?
Regards, Lynne
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Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 4:29
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Subject: [ozmidwifery] Hello - Brasil
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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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