Of course there are emergency sections. Thank the Goddess we have them... I've attended 30 births myself and two were sections (not emergency, but definitely heading that direction).
Can you see that I'm taking aim at the culture that causes the unnecessary sections, NOT the women who were sectioned?
One of the quotes in the articles I was looking at was a doctor saying that she didn't think women even knew there were potentially negative risks to having a section (so much for informed consent). Surgical deliveries are rising not so much because we have more emergencies or because humans suddenly evolved in a way so that vaginal birth was more dangerous... but because of convenience and impatience and fear of lawsuits.
Hollie, I doubt that anyone who could be reading this would be among the disadvantaged families I'm wondering about. Reading in the paper on a daily basis about local babies dying of shaken baby syndrome, or toddlers beaten to death, or moms leaving newborns in the toilet... these people are not among my friends.
I had the great good fortune to have a brief interview with Joseph Chilton Pierce at a midwifery conference years ago. His work was moving towards why the primary directive (care of the next generation) seemed to be shortcircuiting around the globe, but especially here in the U.S. Things like violent birth practices and lack of support for new parents were symptoms of a larger problem... the one I'm trying to grasp now, I suspect.
Obviously I'm being terribly clumsy at it... which is why I'm trying to start exploring these ideas at this level, rather than my usual practice of writing for periodicals. There must be language and phrasing that will express myself better. I'm working on it.
Finally, I want to apologize for my words causing you distress. I hope you can see that that last thing I want to do is attack anyone (except politicians and community leaders who shortsightedly create policy that hurts families, and health care professionals who succumb to the edicts of insurance companies to make more money).
Did you see anything in what I quoted to be in error? If you have another theory about why the c-section rate is over 30% now, I'd really like to hear it.
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Date: 2007-12-13 12:00 am (UTC)Can you see that I'm taking aim at the culture that causes the unnecessary sections, NOT the women who were sectioned?
One of the quotes in the articles I was looking at was a doctor saying that she didn't think women even knew there were potentially negative risks to having a section (so much for informed consent). Surgical deliveries are rising not so much because we have more emergencies or because humans suddenly evolved in a way so that vaginal birth was more dangerous... but because of convenience and impatience and fear of lawsuits.
Hollie, I doubt that anyone who could be reading this would be among the disadvantaged families I'm wondering about. Reading in the paper on a daily basis about local babies dying of shaken baby syndrome, or toddlers beaten to death, or moms leaving newborns in the toilet... these people are not among my friends.
I had the great good fortune to have a brief interview with Joseph Chilton Pierce at a midwifery conference years ago. His work was moving towards why the primary directive (care of the next generation) seemed to be shortcircuiting around the globe, but especially here in the U.S. Things like violent birth practices and lack of support for new parents were symptoms of a larger problem... the one I'm trying to grasp now, I suspect.
Obviously I'm being terribly clumsy at it... which is why I'm trying to start exploring these ideas at this level, rather than my usual practice of writing for periodicals. There must be language and phrasing that will express myself better. I'm working on it.
Finally, I want to apologize for my words causing you distress. I hope you can see that that last thing I want to do is attack anyone (except politicians and community leaders who shortsightedly create policy that hurts families, and health care professionals who succumb to the edicts of insurance companies to make more money).
Did you see anything in what I quoted to be in error? If you have another theory about why the c-section rate is over 30% now, I'd really like to hear it.