Re: [ozmidwifery] SMH Letter - support of Devine

[Janet Fraser]

 

  Sounds like something "Mediawatch" should be privvy to ? ;)
   
  Absolutely!!!
  J

Re: [ozmidwifery] SMH Letter - support of Devine

[JoFromOz]

sally tracy wrote:

  
  
  not despairing too badly  - it seems this is a
beat
up - ie the person didn't exist and although the letter doesn't
completely put Ryde in it  - by inference it does. The author is a
lawyer at West Ryde.but there have been no women having a 3rd baby
transferred that we can find!
ST
  

Sounds like something "Mediawatch" should be privvy to ? ;)

Jo

Re: [ozmidwifery] SMH Letter - support of Devine

[sally tracy]

not despairing too badly  - it seems this is a beat
up - ie the person didn't exist and although the letter doesn't
completely put Ryde in it  - by inference it does. The author is a
lawyer at West Ryde.but there have been no women having a 3rd baby
transferred that we can find!
ST

Andrea Robertson wrote:
Hi there,
  
  
This letter is in today's SMH:
  
  
-
  
  
  
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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Re: [ozmidwifery] SMH Letter - support of Devine

[JoFromOz]

Andrea Robertson wrote:


Hi there,

This letter is in today's SMH:

-

/snip/

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Oh well,  you can't win 'em all.

Andrea


Yes, that's sad... but I've heard a hell of a lot more horror stories 
about hospital blood baths!


Jo

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[ozmidwifery] SMH Letter - support of Devine

[Andrea Robertson]

Hi there,

This letter is in today's SMH:

-


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

--

Oh well,  you can't win 'em all.

Andrea


-
Andrea Robertson
Birth International * ACE Graphics * Associates in Childbirth Education

e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web: www.birthinternational.com


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