Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] Let baby decide birth date
Dear Julie and All
I love it. I also saw a piece from a vet many moons ago on the huge dangers of interfering with the physiological birthing processes
For Mares, with them citing that owners should stay well away leaving the Mare to do what
A friend of mine is a vet and we had a very similar discussion not that long
ago about dogs and the iniation of labour and a few other things. I remember
laughing at her and saying so if vets know all this about dogs why don't Drs
know it about humans, we can't be that different!
At 4:37 PM
A huge number of women demand IOL from 37/40 onwards, like you Janet,(btw
your views make perfect sense to me) I despair of how how to get the message
across that the 'process' of birth will happen when all the participants are
ready ie the baby, the mothers mind her body. Sometimes in clinic
The rate of c-sect for dogs has also sky rocketed :)
It's not only horses' birthing but ask any farmer/breeder of
cows/sheep/horses or I guess any mammal for that fact about the shortcomings
of an animal baby that is denied colostrum for any reason. Why do humans
think they are any different?
well said julie.
over the past few weeks i have been in labour ward
with many women induced and all of them have lead to a cascade of intervention
culminating in LSCS. The woman i was with the last shift, for example, ended up
with a trial of forceps in theatre! why oh why do the powers that
The thing with dogs' c/s rate skyrocketing though is that is more often going
to be the owners meddling with the natural process than the vets. The vets
generally don't get involved until after things have gone wrong. Even then I
believe my vet generally tries leaving the bitch alone in a dark
Title: Message
When
will we learn?
When
ONE peice of selective research shows that still birth rates are lower in the
39th week and suddenly all the obs are saying that ALL women should be induced
at 39 to save more babies.and no one argues it!Scaremongering and
manipulation of
