Hi Nikki,
OMG, don't *even* get me started on this subject!! :-) You did a good
job, in a short post, outlining the many, many injustices that are done to
the birthing pair. Because of your subject line ("Open Season") I was
immediately reminded of the book that clinched my decision to birth all but
my oldest son at home (my oldest was born in a hospital)- it's called "Open
Season" by Nancy Wainer Cohen (she wrote "Silent Knife" also).
~Dianne Oliver, LLLL, IBCLC
Simi Valley, CA
>Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:26:06 EDT
>From: Nikki Lee <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: open season on birth
>
>Dear Friends:
> In my hospital work this week, 8 out of 13 mothers had cesarean
>sections. There were several where the reasons were clear: mom was fully
>dilated,
>and baby got tangled in the cord; a mother was hypertensive and not
>responding
>to medication. Most were for reasons not truly medical. Such as the woman
>told by the doctor that her pelvis was 'too narrow'. She never even went
>into
>labor; this is akin to telling a flaccid man that he won't get big enough to
>make a woman pregnant! (Both the pelvis and the baby are shaped in labor
>to fit
>together, and almost always do, given time, patience, and loving support.)
> Some were for 'failed induction' or 'failure to progress'. One woman
> was
>told that her baby weighed over 10 pounds based on ultrasound; the baby was
>actually 8 pounds. I have never seen a cesarean section for 'macrosomia' be
>accurate; the women who are told that their babies are 'too big' are all
>scared to labor, have the surgery, and WHOOPS, the baby is 2
>pounds smaller. There
>is no an apology from the doctor.
> None were exclusively breastfeeding as the baby went to the nursery for
>at least the first night. Others got bottles because 'there wasn't enough
>milk'.......funny how a baby that needs to feed more gets a bottle
>instead of a
>breast.
> Not one woman I saw this week went into labor spontaneously.
> Does no one read evidence? Does no one pay attention to FDA warnings
>about induction and vacuum? It would seem not.
> warmly,
>Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
>Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
>Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
>www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com
>
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