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" Maybe the baby just needs to
be live in the womb and be born to
become complete."
How beautiful ..I am speachless.
The woman is truely lucky to have you with her Lieve.
Rhonda.
-------Original Message-------
Date: Monday, December
02, 2002 09:08:24
Subject: [ozmidwifery]
When birth and death come together
Dear friends,
Thanks for your advices and
sharing.
The baby is inoperable. The left side of the heart is not
there, the aorta
is hihgly underdeveloped, so as soon as the ductus of
botalli closes the
baby will go into a coma. Only a transplantation
could help and that's
impossible, they only do it on older children. We
have pretty good
heartsurgeons in Belgium, lets say that they are much
better in pathology,
but forgot a lot about fysiology :-))
I
already suggested the mother to write things down. She has a very
good
contact with the baby, she can exactly tell how he is laying in
her womb. We
listen to the heartbeat together and she can talk about
it.
We plan to make foto's at birth and after.
The mothers chooses a
homebirth at this moment. It was her decision already
for a healthy
child and now she wants to be sure that there are no
interventions to
'save' the baby. In the university hospital they sayd that
if she gives
birth there, for sure the baby will get an operation, even when
there
is no hope for him. It will be a child of the science.
In the nearby
hospital, the gyn is very supportive to her, but in a hospital
so many
peaple are involved and she will never know what midwife will be
with
her, what gyn, or what pediatrician. Even when she gets all what
she
wants, you can never predict that it is not a very busy day with a
lot of
births and that she can't stay in peace with her baby and her
husband.
I indeed feel it as a great honor and privilige to be with
them and I also
see birth and death as 'gateway' experiences. Maybe the
baby just needs to
be live in the womb and be born to become
complete.
Thanks for your support and I will let you know what
happens.
Warm
greetings
Lieve
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