Birth ur doin it rong

Filed under: consumers' rights, just for fun, surgical monopoly

Sunday Snicker

Tags: andrew pesce, sunday snicker
Filed under: surgical monopoly

Maternal deaths in Australia compared with England and Wales from 1967 to 1969 The MMR for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women remains three times higher than the MMR for non-Indigenous women. Monitoring maternal mortality and morbidity in Australia We need first to ask, how good are the data? There is a concern about under-ascertainment. [...]

Tags: birth in Australia, birth trauma, maternal mortality
Filed under: consumers' rights, reproductive justice

Updated list-in-progress here. Shamed but not named: bad medics use law to hide their identities Paying for negligence: Birth bungles cost $115m in NSW alone Hypervirulent strain of Clostridium difficile in Epworth Hospital in Richmond Melbourne Scared nurses’ secret evidence of intimidation No room at the hospital for sick toddler Hospital blunder turns into family [...]

Tags: caesarean risks, hospital risks, maternal mortality
Filed under: careproviders, consumers, consumers' rights, surgical discourse, surgical monopoly

Thanks, Gloria, for sharing this on your blog. How many of us know all the stuff in this video? I sure didn’t! The increase of emergency hysterectomy after caesarean is quite marked in Australia in recent years. What does your uterus really do?

Tags: hysterectomy, reproductive health
Filed under: consumers, consumers' rights

One of the big things the government keeps banging on about in its anti-homebirth drive is “collaboration”. You might think that the existing situation – woman hires midwife, woman and midwife seek obstetric surgeon or hospital in the unlikely event of need, often midwives have relationships built up with hospitals or surgeons so that’s not [...]

Filed under: bullshit, careproviders, consumers' rights, homebirth campaign, reproductive justice, surgical monopoly

Fate of earth – fate of birth

Tags: michel odent, robbie davis-floyd
Filed under: breastfeeding, consumers' rights, parenting, surgical monopoly

I hope that you remember to sew on a sequin over this weekend of mixed feelings. Gratuitous exhortations of cheeriness

Filed under: just for fun

Australia’s Disease Burden Traced To Low Rates Of Breastfeeding by Gopalan T on 18 August 2010 Australia’s chronic disease burden has been traced to historical barriers to breastfeeding. The research, by Dr Julie Smith and Dr Peta Harvey of the Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health at Australian National University (ANU), looked at the [...]

Tags: artificial feeding, breastfeeding
Filed under: breastfeeding, consumers' rights, parenting

This is a beautiful and important post by Heather Armstrong, presented on The Unncessarean. I know many women will relate to it. Unfortunately. Read the rest at the link. Thank you, Heather. Every time this is articulated, another woman comes in from the cold and realises her feelings are valid and important, that she’s not [...]

Tags: caesarean, vbac
Filed under: consumers' rights, surgical discourse, surgical monopoly