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birth in other countriesFrom: Alana A. Millman (midwife2be@lvcm.com)Sat Oct 21 13:39:25 2000
At 06:53 AM 10/21/00 -0500, you wrote: > > By contrast, only 1 percent of total maternal deaths occurred in > > developed countries, which have 11 percent of all births. Norway, > > Sweden and Switzerland have the lowest national death tolls, the > > study said. > >What is it that they do differently? > They have a respect for the woman's body to not be rushed and tend to spend more time observing their patients, and a very low number of births with anesthesia. They have a fantastic Midwife and OB combination system for low and high risk pregnancies respectively. See this article about the system in the Netherlands for example: http://www.acegraphics.com.au/resource/papers/smulders02.html Dutch maternity care / midwives English language references: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/public_health/phresear/dutch.htmi And to quote an earlier post called "list" by Cheri Van Hoover, CNM "This is another key issue. Other countries - England, Holland, Canada - have built infrastructures that support choices in site of birth. The U.S. has not. People are biased by their training and experience. Consumers haven't pushed for the infrastructure to be created that would support out-of-hospital birthing because they are not familiar with it. It is outside of our cultural experience. That doesn't mean it is wrong." Alana
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