----- Can I just caution blanket statements against professions. 15years ago it >was in antenatal classes led by a physio that I learnt and became passionate >about active drug free birth and breastfeeding. I worked hard and achieved >everything I wanted for my birth with the very sound advice and joyful >learning she gave us as a group. the hospital I birth at had never seen >birth plan before and the midwives asked if they could keep it. I recently >complained about a midwife 'educating' women about the benefits of a neat >cut compared to a mutilating tear (words powerful enough to elicit agreement >I think!) in antenatal classes. Thereare good and bad in all professions, >including midwifery medicine physio etc lets not exclude or vilify the whole >in case we lose the good ones. all of us working to increase women's choices >experiences and decrease intervention etc need support >Belinda
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