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Dear All
Let's all right and ask for an unedited airing of all the issues around maternity
services on Judy Brokey's Insight program on SBS??
Denise Hynd
"Let us support one another, not just in philosophy but in action, for the
sake of freedom for all women to choose exactly how and by whom, if by anyone,
our bodies will be handled."
Linda Hes
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Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 5:21
PM
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] SMH Letter -
support of Devine
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:
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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
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Oh
well, you can't win 'em all.....
Andrea
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Andrea Robertson
Birth International * ACE Graphics * Associates in
Childbirth Education
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