Dear List, Wasn't caesar's palace?Or has this hospital now a rival for that title?Friends from Singapore have told me in Singapore the induction rate is almost 100% and the c/section rate is 80%.I am not surprised with an attitude of Mon-Fri 9-5 obst/ics.Ann--- Pinky McKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi , > Yesterday I had a wee chat to Bruce Sutherland - he > started the Hawthorn Birth Centre and still has a > few births there each month as well as his other > obstetric practice. He was telling me - utterly > mortfied - that the previous day a well known > private hospital in Melbourne had a busy day, > according the the midwives there . Yes, they said - > 13 births!!! - TEN of these births were caesareans!! > Bruce was beside himself - "Thats 70 percent - what > IS going on??" He also told me how he had refused to > do a caesarean for a mum having her 3rd baby > =apparently the woman had two straightforwod births > previously but her 'friends' had convinced her a > csection would be the 'easy way'. Eventually he > 'compromised' and gave this woman an epidural and > induction that she was demanding - she had a 3 hr > labour and easy birth. > > > Bruce is a legend but I am thinking he must be > utterly baffled by the present trends for > intervention He would have seen so many changes over > the years - he is now helping women whose mothers > went to him! > He has fought enormously hard to give women natural > births - introducing Leboyer births, then later > setting up Hawthorn Birth Centre and including a > large Birthing pool so women could labour/birth in > water as he wasnt comfortable with the mother/ baby > separation when Leboyer babies were put into a bath > - mothers and babies (and partners/ support people) > can be together in the tub at the birth Centre . > > An interesting 'chat'. > Pinky > >
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