Re: [ozmidwifery] FYI news article

[Melissa Singer]

Yes, I liked the phrase "needed a caesarean".  Just like the common one post NELUSC 'lucky we did that because the uterus was starting to thin'  or 'very lucky because the cord was around the neck' ............... ummmm and?................   Sometime I worry that this culture that had been adopted of women 'unable' to birth and obstetric intervention has gone to far to stop or reverse.  It is very depressing.  Also I wonder if we have turned into a third world country with malnourished women who have rickets in their pelvises because of all the C/S for CPD, obstructed labour etc!!!   Maybe I'm feeling particularly jaded because I did night duty last night and haven't slept, but I go to work prepared for battle!   Melissa ----- Original Message ----- From: Tania Smallwood To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 11:30 AM Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] FYI news article Hi Louise and others, No eating alive to be done from here J  but I did want to comment on this one…the thing I think I find most offensive about all of this is that it just carries on the charade that the women are paying for, and therefore getting the ‘best’ care.  Women have been conned into thinking that if they pay the highest fees for the PHI, and then pay the biggest gap payment for the ‘best’ obstetrician, go to the ‘best’ hospital, they will have the best, and therefore the safest birth.  This plan just carries that little lie on, by drawing more women into the system, and into this one hospital in particular, when the cold hard reality is that less than one in three of them is going to give birth to their babies through their vagina anyway, and of those one in three, how many are going to be straightforward?  My sources tell me that the c/s rate for primips is up around 70%...so how many women are going to be conned into thinking that they will get this great hotel stay, and then just be glad they were in the hospital to start with, because they ‘needed’ a caesarean… Just makes me sad Tania     -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.5/451 - Release Date: 19/09/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.5/451 - Release Date: 19/09/2006