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Mary Herrington <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 26 Feb 2006 11:26:30 -0800
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Jennifer Tow said 
  "When we ask for example why women want epidurals or AIM supplements, (which is certainly true), we are asking the wrong question. I would ask-do women want drugged, traumatized, unattached, sick babies? When we fail to educate women
about the importance of their choices, then we relegate ourselves to 
a pointless conversation in which we never notice that "the emperor 
has no clothes.

I just do not understand the argument, made over and over that we 
must respect a mother's right to make choices. "
   
  excellent point!!
   
  I just had a discussion on this very issue with one of our OBs the other day.  He was making the argument that he is just "giving women what they want" with all these 39 week inductions/epidurals and the cascade of interventions they cause.
   
  And this is from one the few OBs who I respect and who I feel has true caring and integrity!!
   
  I very militantly voiced to him that women may "want" certain things but it is the health care practitioners job to educate women about the pros/cons and risks of these interventions.  His response was that in our society women come into prenatal care  in the first trimester knowing what they WANT and will not be swayed!!!
   
  oh boy- we had quite a heated debate on this!!
   
  I certainly dont know the solution to all of this- but I know I will never deliver in a hospital again after 6 years of L&D nursing.  
   
  IMHO no one can blame the women for asking for epidurals/inductions/primary c-sections when they are so misled and ill informed by their obstetricians who constantly obfuscate the risks of said interventions in the guise of just giving women what they want. 
   
  Mary Herrington RN
  Labor & Delivery
  St Luke's CMC
  The Woodlands, Texas

		
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