With regards to your below post:

Oh, yes we can tell them the truth.  And yes we can warn parents about being
lied to and coerced.  And, yes, absolutely we can tell parents of the risks
of hospital birth.  Aaaah, yes! Yes, we can do that.  But the real questions
is:  Can we do this as a hospital employee and KEEP our JOBS?

Lori J. Isenstadt,  - she said with a tad bit of sarcasm.......

<< I agree. But the only way to prepare them is to tell them the truth. What
 hospital employee is really capable of doing that? How many hospital
 employees warn parents that they might be lied to, coerced, misled, even
 threatened to get their "compliance"? Can a hospital employee really give the
 history of medicalized birth--can she tell parents its risks and how utterly
 unecessary it usually is? Can she tell parents that statistically homebirth
 is safer? Can she tell them the politics of obstetrics and how surgeons took
 control of birth in the US? Can she tell them, as Rachel reminds us, that we
 are the world outcasts when it comes to birth? Can she say that the WHO
 advocates midwifery care as the standard for all low-risk birthing women? Can
 she talk about the impact of interventions on breastfeeding and attachment?
 So long as we "make nice" with the institutions which perpetrate birth trauma
 on mothers and babies we will never see the empowerment we talk about.
 Jennifer Tow, IBCLC, CT, USA

  >>


Lori J. Isenstadt

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