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Dear Today Show
I am sadened that you are to broadcast a caesarian
section as just another childbirth option!
It is an indictment on our medical dominated
cultural warping of childbirth that we can even think cutting through
the abdominal wall which risks cutting large blood vessels, and organs
(& sometimes does) not to mention the baby, is seen as a safe alternative to
a woman working with her body and baby to give birth under the influence of
powerfull and elevating endorphins!!
I trust that you do present a balanced
view?
This would mean you give equal time including a show on a woman's experience of the other end of the current spectrum of birthing optionsin Australia, homebirth with your own midwfe rather than obstetrician!! The World Health Organisation
recognises midwives are the most appropriate care givers of healthy women
and women who have experienced both options do not return to a medical model of
care!!
The nations with best health outcomes for mothers
and babies are the countries where midwives look after the majority of women,
that is not Australia! For example in Holland, 60% of the population only
see a midwife when they are pregnant & 30% of them birth at
home!
As someone who had a caesarian with-out any real
problems at the time, Iwish women to know the effects are for a lifetime, for
example the impact of the scar on your menstrual cycle and pains!!
Yours sincerely,
Denise Hynd
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