When birth becomes business: what we’re not saying about high caesarean rates News broke this week about the retirement of Dr John Love, a well-known Perth obstetrician who has “delivered” over 10,000 babies during his long career. The tone of the reporting, particularly in this Channel 9 News segment, was overwhelmingly celebratory — portraying Dr...
Obstetricians and GP obstetricians are heading a push for machines that go “ping” to replace midwives. What this means is replacing real and dedicated continuity of care, touch, conversations, connections and experts in normal physiological birth with numbers, machines, computer screens and charts that lead to interventions and caesareans. The well-known skit from Monty Python’s...
The rights of a pregnant woman anywhere in the world must be taken seriously, but for the purpose of being Australian and educating my local community I have put together some really important resources so that women have an easy reference point to go to and know that they do have rights, they can refuse...