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Also interesting he points out the USA in comparison to the rest of the world. In most countries (except, he says USA and Canada) highly trained surgeons only attend complicated, high-risk births. The opposite is true, he says, in the USA and Canada.
The question, to me, is how to get rid of the stigma attached to midwives and normal birth. What's it going to take? I just listened to the "Birth" radio documentary that will air on NPR stations in March for Women's History month and they have a doctor implying "Giving birth at home isn't bad, but what if something happens to the baby?" Then they have a voiceover saying only about 2-3% of homebirths are transfers to the hospital. How do we get women to understand this?
Karen
PS: I'm going to send out an email this week about the radio documentary "Birth" and how you can get it aired on your local NPR station.
I'm a homebirth midwife, and I have loved what comes from Marsden's mouth, for so long J I am still struck by what goes on in the OB community:
(p.6) "An American ob/gyn must be a primary care provider assisting normal, healthy pregnancies and births, a specialist in complications of pregnancy and birth, a counselor and a family planning provider, a specialist in gynecological diseases, ad a highly skilled surgeon. No other specialist anywhere in health care ties to maintain competence in so many area. It is not humanly possible."
This aspect is not considered. Do you go to a one stop specialist when you have something specific you need a specialist to look at? You want a specialist who really has experience and knowledge in that area, not just any area – the experience and knowledge gets diluted by trying to do too much. I've never thought of this in the way Marsden writes. Duh on me!
Tammi
~~~ Midwife~~~
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~~~ The goats have no midwives. The sheep have no midwives. When the goat is pregnant she is safely delivered.
When the sheep is pregnant she is safely delivered. You, in this state of pregnancy, will be safely delivered. Recited by the village midwives and elders among the African Yoruba
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