Ok you ladies got me thinking with this discussion about the rather lame way magazines seem to treat childbirth.
I have emailed a number of the major magazines with a request for an article in order to provide me with information - the dumb consumer approach. (Ok so it is a little white lie.)
Below is a copy of the email I sent and a list of the magazines and how you can also contact them with similar requests for articles on natural birth, caesarean risks and NMAP. If they are bombarded with requests for these types of articles then just maybe one of them may take the bait and provide some honest and useful info to Australian women.
Debby
New Idea [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Womens Weekly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Womens Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good Medicine
http://goodmedicine.ninemsn.com.au/goodmedicine/feedback/magazinefeedback.asp
New Woman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mother and Baby [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Pregnancy and Birth Magazine)
"Dear XXX,
Some time ago I saw an article on the evening news about the national maternity action plan. It was a rally that was apparently held in each of the major cities and the spokeswoman for it here in
I have not been able to find any other information about it and I know from the insurance problem and what has been reported on TV that there is supposed to be a crisis with obstetricians leaving.
I am interested because until my last baby I did not know there was a choice of different ways to deliver your baby except by an obstetrician. A friend told me about birth centre midwives in the public hospitals and that is where my last child was born. What other options are these people proposing?
Could you please do a story on what this action plan is about, do any other countries have it and how would it improve our maternity services.
Thanks
Deborah Miller"
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