Hi Sue, I just screamed because I can't swear!!!!! Hope the parents found out who informed DOCS and gave her a ear full. Hope you are well. Leigh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Cookson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:10 AM Subject: Homebirth and DOCS
> Hi all, > > Just wish to put to you that a recent 'mandatory reporting' by a > hospital-based midwife to DOCS was a personal statement about that midwife's > perception and attitude to homebirth. > > A couple had transferred to hospital with a baby 4 kgs for RDS or similar > after a wonderful birth at home. No obvious reason for the RDS. Parents > insisted on a lotus birth and the receiving doctors and paeds accepted that. > Baby in oxygen box for 2 days, then to breast and to postnatal ward. Parents > left hospital at day 5 after argument with paed about antibiotic dose (no > pathology acknowledged) and midwife on duty decided to put in a mandatory > reporting of above based on the fact that the parents did not dress their > baby when they left. (and that they were leaving the hospital against > medical advice and that they'd had a lotus birth, and an 'unassisted > homebirth' which put their baby at risk.) > > Parents then had a visit by DOCS and also a letter suggesting their decision > to have a homebirth seriously compromised their baby at birth. > > Have we all gone mad or has our right to make decisions been seriously > impaired in the last few years?? > > Any comments?? > > Sue > > -- > This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. > Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe. > -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
