As most of you know I do not feel like having a home birth or hospital birth has a lot to do with having a happy and safe birth. There are so many other factors. So, this is in no way attacking or bashing hospitals or hospital births.
Ok, so onto the story that is currently upsetting me.
A sister of a friend of mine was prego with her third baby. Her last baby had been a c-section so the Dr. told her she had to have this baby c-section ( needless to say this is error number one)!!
Error number two is that they scheduled the c-section instead of waiting for her to go into labor.
As if this wasn't predictable the baby was delivered too soon and she cannot breath on her own.
Finally and most irritating to me is that just because the baby needs oxygen they have not let the mother hold or nurse her baby for three days. Which I happen to know is possible it is just a pain to switch the baby back and forth from portable oxygen to the tent. I held, rocked and nursed Isabella while she was on oxygen I just had to learn how to switch her back and forth so the Dr and nurses didn't have to stop everything they were doing every time I wanted to hold my baby. After all the nurses are not there to be my slave they are there to help me take care of my baby.
A lot of people would say this is exactly why they hate Doctors and why hospitals are not safe. Just remember the parents had to sign the c-section release form. Yes, they were obviously given bad information but we are responsible for our children.
Ryan and I are convinced the best way to avoid things like this is to teach our children now how important it is to educate themselves about whatever they are currently going through. After all these were not bad parents at all they just thought that the delivery of there child was the hospitals job. I think this was how are parents were taught . You do what you are told and don't question authority. The thing is who made Doctors or midwifes our authority. In a perfect world Doctors, midwifes and patients could all bring what they know to the table and work together for good.
2 comments:
Amen! It is so grieving when people just let other people walk all over them like that.
I totally agree with you.
You know, I feel like if something goes wrong at a homebirth, people look at you and blame you for whatever went wrong, because you didn't go to the hospital. But if you have a hospital birth and allow them to do what they want (which may not be in the baby's or your own best interest), nobody ever acts like it's the parent's responsibility. They blame the hospital.
And yes, doctors are responsible for giving bad info, like you said. But mothers are equally responsible in the interventions that they allow. We're all capable of picking up a book (or two, or more!) about childbirth and knowing what we're getting ourselves into instead of blindly trusting our healthcare provider (whether that's a midwife or OB).
So that's just a long way of saying I agree with what you're saying. ;)
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