Heard
another anecdote the other day ... 2 women experienced UR during labour. The
first had attempted a hospital VBAC the second had planned a homebirth. In the
first, the woman was monitored on ctg and the problem noticed too late.
Consequently the baby died because no one really watched the woman carefully
enough. In the second one though, the midwife noticed something different in the
woman's behaviour, movments, ctx etc and promptly called an ambulance. When they
arrived at hospital she told them the woman's uterus was about to rupture and
the doctors went all haughty on her saying "how could you know anything?" but
the midwife ignored them and began prepping her client for caesarean, soon after
they concurred and as they were about to cut her open the woman's uterus
ruptured. The baby lived.
Just
goes to show that continuity of care is more about having someone really pay
attention to your needs and take notice of what is going on on a human level
than it is about where you give birth and how you give
birth.
These
are rare instances but I thought you all might find this story interesting. And
if the homebirth midwife who helped this woman is on this list, I commend
you.
Cheers,
Cas.
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Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] New models of midwifery careHeard an anecdote the other day about a woman who had 3 vaginal births after a CS and they it was found out the CS was Classical.
