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WELL - How "SELFISH" are Dr's who continue to pressure women
into having C/S then. Is that not worse?!
Rhonda -
PS: Loved your response Darren.
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Date: Wednesday, June
25, 2003 22:04:48
Subject: [ozmidwifery]
Doctors turn against natural births for breech babies-- Courier Mail
article
This is thanks to our new Qld MC branch committee
member Helen Bremner.... we are on a roll lately...
If you are a Queenslander please respond with a
letter to the editor [EMAIL PROTECTED].
We need all the support we can get! This Molloy guy doesn't know what he's
in for by making comments like that. What a
%&$*%*_(!
What he failed to mention was that all the Term
Breech Trial labours were medically managed. Leilah McCracken critiqued
the Hannah Study and said that
"All of the studied
vaginal births were medically managed- with a full 64.7%
of the women
having their births induced or augmented with drugs, 46.3%
having
epidurals, and 22.4% of the women having their membranes
artificially
ruptured (AROM). It is no wonder that the women attempting
vaginal births
had labor
difficulties..."
Cheers,
Cas.
Courier Mail, 25 June,
page 5
Doctors turn against natural births for breech babies
Leanne Edmistone Health Reporter
This
healthy happy baby girl was born against the odds.
Stradbroke
Island mum Julie Philips was looking forward to the natural birth of her
fourth child when doctors discovered the baby was in breech presentation
and told her she would need a caesarean delivery unless the baby turned.
Despite all attempts the baby did not turn and doctors at two
Brisbane hospitals told Ms Phillips they would not attempt a natural
delivery because of risks to her baby and for medico-legal reasons.
Distressed, Ms Philips enlisted the help of a midwife and at
2.20pm on Monday, after a 6 1/2 hour home birth, her yet-to-be-named
daughter entered the world weighing a healthy 3798g.
"It was very
easy, everything went very smoothly." she said yesterday, "She's a real
chubby bubby, she looks like her brothers."
Ms Phillips's eldest
son Namo, 6, was also a breech baby, but turned during labour and was
delivered naturally, as were her three year old twins, Kiahn and Mali.
National Association of Specialist Gyneacologists and
Obstetricians president Dr David Molloy said few doctors would
perform a natural delivery of a breech baby and any parents pressuring
doctors to do so were "selfish".
Dr Mollow said a recent
international study was stopped after two years by a medical ethics
committee because results overwhelmingly showed breech babies born
naturally had double the risk of serious injury compared with caesarean
breech births.
He said those results, in conjunction with the high
medico-legal risk, had "effectively killed off vaginal breech
delivery".
But Ms Phillips said she and the midwife weighed up her
own good health, the ease of her previous labours and the baby being "in
the best possible" breech position - bottom first with legs extended near
the face, and decided to go ahead.
"It felt like the right thing to
do, the midwife was very experienced and there were no (personal) health
reasons not to....so we decided to have the baby naturally and I'm glad we
did," she said.
Dr Molloy, whose eldest child was a caesarean
breech birth, said the head was the largest body part and with a normal
birth, it was quickly eivident if a caesarean was necessary.
He
said because the head came last with a breech birth, there was a high risk
it could become stuck and the umbilical cord could become squashed and cut
oxygen to the brain, neck and jaw manipulation could result in bone
breaks.
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