Re: [ozmidwifery] Fw: [MCNSW] more interventions for labour!

[Aviva Sheb'a]

I won't bother going into how I feel about it. You probably can work it out anyway, but I just HAVE to ask: What did the monkeys feel/think about it? How did they react? How were the baby monkeys? Were there any side-effects? How many years have passed since the monkey trials and what the results of the follow-ups?????   and what about we who've enjoyed having long labours??? If you had these drugs to speed up labour, how do you know you wouldn't have had a wonderful, natural labour and birth anyway? aviva     a proposed drug to reduce the time of first labour to 2-3 hours by softening the collagen in the cervix! The scientists reckon it doesn't hurt more, (but then again they might have been blokes :-)). Website listed below. Love Kate PS What about all those women who were already going to have quick births??  http://www.ivenus.com/family/news/LC-notebook1-wk40.asp