The thing that concerns me is that the baby *might* have lived, but with
terrible health problems as a result. Too many babies are born addicted
to various drugs already.
However, I don't understand how a person can drive irresponsibly, kill a
person, and get charged with 'manslaughter', yet a
deal
better. Respect for life - *all* life - must begin with respect for
other people and their autonomy.
Should anyone wish to continue this discussion, please feel free to
email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that we show the courtesy of not
bombarding the rest of the list (who may no
Graham and Helen wrote:
This is a great story and a great outcome. I am just surprised that
the hospital was prepared to wait another 27 hours and "allow" her to
give birth naturally. I would have expected them to be pushing for a
caesar long before that, as is the norm these days. I'd be in
JoFromOz wrote:
They probably were pushing for her to have a caesar...I'm booked in
with the Family Birth Centre at the Royal Womens in Melbourne, and
their hospital policy (for the whole hospital including the FBC, that
is) is that all breech births are immediate C-sections.
However, I'm pret
Honey Acharya wrote:
We had a women here recently who was having a VBAC (not breech) and had to
negotiate what she wanted with the Hospital. They have policy of having
continuous monitoring and canula in the hand when you are "Trial of scar".
She said she was happy to have monitoring every hour but
Hi,
Re the leather - that's actually the way a lot of vegans live. I can
honestly say that I do not (knowingly) posses or consume any animal
products whatsoever with one exception only - I *do* travel on PT and in
cars that contain animal products in their tyres, as this is completely
unavoidab
e hospital
that does not have any sort of continuity of midwifery care program.
It's amazing what you can achieve if you are "difficult" enough!
Kate
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