Re: [ozmidwifery] Caesareans!

[Aviva Sheb'a]

Hey, Pinky, Bruce Sutherland was at Rosie's birth in Vaucluse! I'd have had a homebirth, only I didn't have a home. Peter Lucas was to have been there, but was trekking in Nepal.  Bruce was excellent...did virtually nothing but respect my wishes. Please say hello to him for me, not that he'd probably remember, unless you remind him about my work with Kerry Gray & CEA. Love, Aviva ----- Original Message ----- From: Pinky McKay To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 9:38 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery] Caesareans! Hi , Yesterday I had a wee chat to Bruce Sutherland - he started the Hawthorn Birth Centre and still has a few births there each month as well as his other obstetric practice. He was telling me - utterly mortfied - that the previous day a well known private hospital in Melbourne had a busy day, according the the midwives there . Yes, they said - 13 births!!! - TEN of these births were caesareans!! Bruce was beside himself - "Thats 70 percent - what IS going on??" He also told me how he had refused to do a caesarean for a mum having her 3rd baby =apparently the woman had two straightforwod births previously but her 'friends' had convinced her a csection would be the 'easy way'. Eventually he 'compromised' and gave this woman an epidural and induction that she was demanding - she had a 3 hr labour and easy birth.     Bruce is a legend but I am thinking he must be utterly baffled by the present trends for intervention He would have seen so many changes over the years - he is now helping women whose mothers went to him! He has fought enormously hard to give women natural births - introducing Leboyer births, then later setting up Hawthorn Birth Centre and including a large Birthing pool so women could labour/birth in water as he wasnt comfortable with the mother/ baby separation when Leboyer babies were put into a bath - mothers and babies (and partners/ support people) can be together in the tub at the birth Centre .   An interesting 'chat'. Pinky       ---   Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.426 / Virus Database: 239 - Release Date: 2/12/02