Birth Forecast: Cloudy w/ a Chance of Cesarean: don't know

Thursday, April 1, 2010

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need to collect my thoughts on mom logic's post: http://www.momlogic.com/2010/04/c-sections_hit_historic_high_-will_obamas_plan_make_a_difference.php

it's more complicated than just that women and doctor's can petition ins. companies now.... it's going to take changing the doctors' PERCEIVED risk of getting sued, and letting them know that whatever that PERCEIVED risk is, it's not worth destroying womens' bodies and lives and babies over. well, she briefly mentions boardrooms and lawsuits... it's complicated, though unnecessarily so.

Better Birth for Bama, Better Birth for the U.S.A

Today's birth climate, in Alabama and the country, is bleak, and most people aren't even aware of this. The maternal mortality rate is rising (and was too high to begin with) and the infant mortality rate is higher than some 3rd world countries. The national cesarean rate is 31.8% as of 2007. The World Health Organization has maintained for years that the cesarean rate for ANY country should be NO higher than 10 - 15% AT MOST. So over half of cesareans are unnecessary. And cesareans are MAJOR abdominal surgery, with all of the risks that entails. They are not simply another "birth choice." They are miracles, when truly necessary and prudent. But they are harming women, and I was one of the women harmed by them, forever scarred. Who is to blame? Everyone points the fingers at someone else. Doctors? yes, but they say it's the women requesting the cesareans or it's the threat of malpractice that leads them to do more cesareans (never mind they hippocratic oath) or it's because women have gotten "lazy" or "fat" or..XYZ. Women? yes, they need to get educated about their options, about their bodies, about the facts. It's not about being "brave" or not, if you go "natural" (ie, no drugs/epidural) or about "just an experience" if you choose out-of-hospital birth (studies suggest it's just as safe as hospital birth.) Get INFORMED. Insurance companies/health care in America? yes, we need reform. Societal attitudes about birth? yes.... all of these things and more...the birth "climate" is just bleak. But I am fighting for safer birth in America. Safer birth, Better birth...for our daughters. Please join the fight.

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