Denise Hynd wrote: <<It is truly encouraging and great to see a
midwife leader of the ACMI being quoted in effectively defending
midwives and challenging the motives and vested interest of obs!!>>
I particularly liked the tricky bit of mass hypnosis she did by saying:
"If we called private obstetrics a killing field or called them butchers
all hell would let loose," she said.
The question I have is "What if the shoulder dystocia had ended in a
fetal injury or death?" Would she have come out strong then and pointed
out that many babies have died of shoulder dystocia in the hands of drs
and midwives are allowed to have baby deaths without witch hunts, too.
There is, in fact, no mishap that can ever happen at a birth that hasn't
happened to some dr somewhere. When the day comes that midwifery leaders
stand for their members in that way, then we'll have the breakthrough in
obstetrics.
Gloria Lemay, Vancouver BC Canada
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