Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Shouldn't Have Gone There....
In the natural birth blog community, there is a woman known as Dr. Amy. She trolls around, looking for home birth blogs especially, so she can 'make an example' of anyone who has the slightest trouble at a home birth. She is (was?) an OB, with 4 kids, but her head so is so far stuck up the medical model of birth that she has lost sight of what a normal birth is. I see reference to her on many blogs I visit, but I have refrained from actually checking her out myself. Until today. Argh. I wish I hadn't gone there. People like her are not interested in changing their opinion to one based on acredited, substantiated research. No matter what research you show her, no matter what your own personal experience was, none of that matters if it differs from her views. Sad. Her post I read today irked me: skepticalob.blogspot.com and scroll down to March 24 2011 (I don't want to directly link there case I don't want to get embroiled in anything). This post is about a woman (not a theoretical woman, but an actual, live, grieving woman) who had a homebirth and the baby died due to his arm pinching off the umbilical cord during birth, long enough to cause lack of oxygen. The mother feels that her baby's birth was not in vain--his 'job' was to faciliate her spiritual growth (interpretation by Dr Amy). Dr Amy called her selfish and immature and goes on to lambast the mother for making a choice to homebirth. I don't know anything about the cause of death, however, I do know that in a hospital, monitors are not always used, and if they were, they are usually removed during pushing (unless something was detected). I don't know how someone in the hospital could have seen inside the mother's womb to know that the umbilical cord was pinched. Dr. Amy does not provide any info on how to diagnosis this, prevent, or 'treat' this condition that is NOT limited to homebirth locations. All she does is pile her brand of dog manure onto the mother. Depsite Dr Amy's belief that women are planning their homebirths so they can star in their own 'show', I do believe that women want the best for their birth. When something bad does happen, they need to reconcile that in their OWN minds, and piling Dr Amy crap on top does not help anyone. How is that mother going to feel now? Better? Umm, no. (I still can't get spellcheck to work)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
For the sake of accuracy, Dr. Amy isn't the one who said the baby's job was to provide spiritual growth for the mother - that's what the mother said. Obviously you're taking what you want to believe and telling all of these people an untruth. Go stick your head back in the sand if you really do not think this baby would have been saved at the hospital. Yu know those ebil monitors you and your ilk go on about - would have detected a problem. But mom had to 'trust' she would have a 'normal' birth because of people like you who refuse to see the benefit of medicine, and value the experience of giving birth over the health of your babies. If your dad was having a heart attack, would you hire an EMT instead of a cardiologist and tell him to do what they did in 1950 for heart attacks? Of course not. Well, maybe you would because doctors are scawey and ebil!!
Post a Comment