Re: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff

[Janet Fraser]

I'd love a copy of that for the JB website, Emily, if you'd like to share and I'd love all your refs!!!!   What you're describing in terms of "maternal choice" really needs a feminist critique to allow us to manage those "choices" in ways which are not harmful to women. Since induction and elec. c-secs are innately harmful, causing physical and emotional trauma to previously healthy women, we need to stop ranking all these "choices" as somehow equal. Surgery for no reason is no more healthy than formula feeding for no reason yet most of us struggle to work out what to do with cases where women request interventions with no medical need. I cannot support choices which are at heart harmful to women and babies in exactly the same way as I cannot support women to lie down in the middle of the highway despite it being their "choice" so to do. If surgeons weren't setting the agenda, we wouldn't perceive these interventions as normal and healthy. (The crap that so many Obs talk to make VB sound like a risky, dangerous, illinformed choice!) Lots of work to do there! You'd really benefit in this from the recent MASSIVE discussions on JB around choice and what many of us feel is more important still - maternal control. J