Hi there,
This letter is in today's SMH:
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The centre, not middle
It would be a great tragedy if the tremendous advances Australia has
achieved in maternal and infant survival and wellbeing in the past 50 years
are being put at risk by moves to wind back the role medical skill and
intervention has played in this achievement ("Mum and baby are caught in
the middle", Herald, September 22).
Our family's recent experience at a midwife-led hospital birthing unit,
where a third childbirth was unexpectedly fraught with life-threatening
complications that could have been avoided with timely medical assessment
and intervention, has left us traumatised and highly critical of the
midwife-led model of childbirth.
By all means give midwives the recognition and key role they have earned,
but making childbirth a political and ideological battlefield where the aim
seems to be to take as much of the field as possible, belies the stated
aim, of putting the wellbeing of mother and infant at the centre.
Patricia Gilchrist West Ryde
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Oh well, you can't win 'em all.....
Andrea
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Andrea Robertson
Birth International * ACE Graphics * Associates in Childbirth Education
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web: www.birthinternational.com
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