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Re: 2nd stage pushingFrom: LMCNM@aol.comFri Dec 22 00:52:13 1995
I absolutely get it. It is as natural as breathing to create and birth a baby. In my practice only 8 % of our patients require C-Sections, only a small number above this need anesthesia, fetal monitoring is used in 20% of our clients, and machines and interventions are mainly left to accumulate dust. That is not to say that they are unneeded, but rather used only in selected cases. My partners practice medicine and don't need to stay up all night holding hands with a nervous primip. They intervene when necessary, do all of the surgery and give excellent care to the high risk patients. It works--- because what women really need in childbirth is mothering and guidance. They need to feel empowered-- and when interventions are necesswary they need to know that there body didn't fail them-- something mechanical went wrong-- and it was not related to fault or blame for them. If a man's body fails him-- he gets kind of upset, no matter how educated he is-- he doesn't want someone else to do the job for him, or depend on machines or surgery to get the job done. Yes we want to provide them with safe childbirth, and yes the interventions are needed at times-- but they all don't need the interventions. Lonnie Morris
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