What really shocks me and makes me very angry is that when the current stats come out I fear they will make 1 in 4 look like a number to be striven for. I pray that I am seeing a statistical clump that will even out over the year to the publicised number. Even the word "normal" is coming to mean the statistical norm or mean. Caesarean birth info of the kind Alesa is referring to must be included in antenatal classes along with the cares website (and others)so that mothers who have such a birth experience have somewhere to go. Maybe I am just a soft touch but I see so many women postnatally who are just trying so hard to be brave and tough it out. They so desperately "want breastfeeding to succeed so that their bodies haven't totally failed them": in quotes because this has been said to me on more than one occassion.
marilyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alesa Koziol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:00 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] C.section education to do or not to do? > Dear Justine > re your comments > ...................."So I am glad I am not an educator. The challenge if I > was one would be to help women understand why 1 in 4 births are currently > resulting in caesarean section and at the same time why only 1 or so in 10 > should!" > > Yes it is a challenge, but one which educators embrace. It is therefore > satisfying when a class evaluation states that the information found to be > most useful was "learning that C/S is major surgery and not to be taken > lightly". This I received following a class on the weekend, and reinforces > that we must provide thorough C/S info-not minifism it (love this new > word!!) > Cheers > Alesa > > > > -- > 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.
