Re: [ozmidwifery] SMH Letter - support of Devine

[sally tracy]

not despairing too badly  - it seems this is a beat up - ie the person didn't exist and although the letter doesn't completely put Ryde in it  - by inference it does. The author is a lawyer at West Ryde.....but there have been no women having a 3rd baby transferred that we can find!!!!! ST Andrea Robertson wrote: Hi there, This letter is in today's SMH: ------------- The centre, not middle It would be a great tragedy if the tremendous advances Australia has achieved in maternal and infant survival and wellbeing in the past 50 years are being put at risk by moves to wind back the role medical skill and intervention has played in this achievement ("Mum and baby are caught in the middle", Herald, September 22). Our family's recent experience at a midwife-led hospital birthing unit, where a third childbirth was unexpectedly fraught with life-threatening complications that could have been avoided with timely medical assessment and intervention, has left us traumatised and highly critical of the midwife-led model of childbirth. By all means give midwives the recognition and key role they have earned, but making childbirth a political and ideological battlefield where the aim seems to be to take as much of the field as possible, belies the stated aim, of putting the wellbeing of mother and infant at the centre. Patricia Gilchrist West Ryde -------------- Oh well,  you can't win 'em all..... Andrea ----- Andrea Robertson Birth International * ACE Graphics * Associates in Childbirth Education e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.birthinternational.com -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.