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I suggest tjhat you allow her to be angry and to vent her pain and
her anger towards those who caused it. Support her in
complaining to the hospital and insisting upon answers as lame as they may
be. If she were to ask why was the induction needed? Was the
baby in distress (at the time of the first insertion of gel - a horrible
substance called prostin made from Pig seamen.
Lovely!) Was her placenta failing? What was the indication that
at 10 days over she needed to be induced anyway?
Then once they have wormed out of that she should ask for
explanations as to why all of the intervention and what caused it and why
was it all needed.
Give her lots of love and support to do this as nothing will change
and it will keep happening unless women are encouraged to complain and
conplain and complain!
Even if she personally gets little satisfaction fron the complaint it
is just one more brick to add - eventually we will built a wall to protect
women from this - brick by brick.
You need to complain first to the registra at the hospital but at the
same time go directly to the medical practitioners board and make sure it
outlines that the initial induction was not called for and the following
intervention could have been avoided. Also any poor bedside manner
should be outlines clearly if they were rude to her which it seems they
were not supportive and gentle from your description.
I wish her love and luck in her recovery - if she needs someone to
talk to you are welcome to give her my email.
The problem is this happens every day and it is not looked at as
torture or as something that needs to be changed. The only way it
will be seen as a problem is if they are inundated with complaints about
this sort of thing.
Luv
Rhonda.
I am so angry for her - it just shpuld not happen and make sure she
knows she is right to be upset because it is not a fault with her body and
it is not that it just happens - it should not have happened to her.
Make sure she knows why it was not necessary and why it should not have
happened.
-------Original Message-------
Date: Thursday,
November 07, 2002 14:44:32
Subject: Re:
[ozmidwifery] Interesting fact
Whew, Rhonda.
I heard this morning from a friend about a friend of hers, aged 19,
whose baby was 10 days late; ob insisted on inducing with gel, nothing
much happening, into hosp., more drugs, foetal monitoring, on her back,
strapped down to bed, more drugs, epidural, more of same, enormous
episiotomy, cut artery, blood gushing in spurts, vacuum to head, two big
men hauling as though it was a tug-of-war, massive lump on baby's head
accompanied by ring of scars, she's stitched up, off her face, baby won't
wake up, won't feed, she's being pumped every six hours for milk which
they're somehow force feeding to baby. but hey, at least she's ok and the
baby's ok, they tell her, and she repeats as she recovers from her
torture. Yes, it's happening under our noses. In Adelaide, November, 2002.
...and I'm screaming inside for women and children...who are our
future.
Aviva
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Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 1:05 AM
Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] Interesting fact
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Well Megan,
I guess the only way to really understand is this..
I can honestly and acceptingly say (as I cannot change what has
happened and I have dealt with it in my own way)
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