I had a similar gut-renching experience recently at Burnside War Memorial Hospital in Adelaide. �A Friday afternoon, had to see the CNM to give her the caesarean awareness day info. �She was still in theatre scrubs and when I asked her if she had just come back from a cs, she said breathlessly and calmly 'oh yes, its just been caesar after caesar today!'. �I walked out of there and literally felt physically ill and crying - those poor women and they probably all believed they saved their babies lives.
Christmas time is also the worst time for caesareans. �Glad tidings we bring, to you here today.........................
Carolyn
CARES SA
Pinky McKay 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��
