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Re: CNM Cases From: D. Ashley Hill (dahmd@cfl.rr.com) Mon Nov 29 16:16:20 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Hypnobirth" Previous message: D. Ashley Hill: "Re: CNM Cases" In reply to: fran wilson: "Re: CNM Cases" I would not disagree with this. However, while lots of patients come in with a birth plan, or at least an idea of what they desire during labor and delivery, many of the Bradley method patients we have cared for over the years were hostile towards any healthcare providers and outright refused any intervention, even when the life of the baby was in clear danger. These were the patients who would rather allow their baby to die than alter their preconceived birth plans. One Bradley patient actually told me that she would rather have a dead baby than "go against the birth plan her instructer created!" Thanks, Ashley At Mon, 29 Nov 2004, fran wilson wrote: > >This is the positive effect of Bradley and other more radical childbirth >instructors - patients used to have to fight for the right NOT to have a >shave prep and enema, to get out of bed during labor, to have intermittent >monitoring. Who has mellowed, the Bradley instructors or the medical >providers? Now that we have become less rigid, I find that they have >responded in kind. > >-- >Fran Wilson, CNM >Wild Rose Women's Clinic >Kennewick, WA > > >From the patients I've seen in the last few years, the Bradley instructors >(at least in our area) seem to have mellowed. In the early 1980's they >were >extremely demanding and took a lot of patience to work with. The patients >used to come to us both in the hospital and office with a list of demands. >Now >the lists they have include things we do for all of our patients--no shave, >enema, heparin lock as opposed to an IV, hold the baby after birth, etc. I >haven't seen anyone insist they they not take pitocin, antibiotics, >analgesia >under any circumstances. > >Lenora McCall, CNM > -- D. Ashley Hill, MD Associate Director Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Florida Hospital Family Practice Residency and Loch Haven Ob/Gyn Group Orlando, Florida Next message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Hypnobirth" Previous message: D. Ashley Hill: "Re: CNM Cases" In reply to: fran wilson: "Re: CNM Cases"

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