From: "Naomi Bar-Yam" <>
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 9:59 PM
Subject: Inductions on the news service


. Something tells me that the
> report is incomplete. There are A LOT of non-medical inductions
> out there, and doing them early is malpractice, >
> I wonder what it will take to reverse this trend and what will
> replace it.
>   Naomi Bar-Yam


Naomi, it will be a while~ Women have changed seem less political or less
eager to make change or waves.
One thing that may factor is the size of the OB practices.  To survive in
this day of managed care, it seems that there has to be lots of
practitioners in one professional group to make if financially.  This is so
even if they are well staffed with CNMs.  If there are  45-50 women due in
the same month scheduling for the OB call would be a logistic nightmare for
the schedule maker. So as a team they decide who is a candidate for
induction( the mother is most likely given an option),who is  repeat c/sec ,
and then the high risk clients who need to be scheduled for true medical
indications for induction then you have a smaller pool who will deliver
spontaneously and the scheduling of staff is not such an onerous chore.
Not justifying just speculating .
Beadie Cambardella RN LCCE IBCLC
[log in to unmask]

             ***********************************************

To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail
To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest)
To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet
All commands go to [log in to unmask]

The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM)
mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html