Oh and another thing too, birth is the only area of health care where you never get told the full story and all the risks associated with various interventions by your Dr - if you were looking down the barrel of serious surgery for cancer or organ transplant/heart surgery etc your Dr would fully inform you of every single detail of the procedure they will do and the risk that it carries and also what your possible outcome of success will be - birth isn't afforded that same openess and honesty and thats why women get let down by the 'system'. Thats my biggest issue with women who just leave it all up to the Dr's because they never tell you that inductions in first time mothers have a high percentage of failure that may lead to further intervention (instruments) or c/s or even that induction can also cause uterine rupture. You don't get told that Syncto has some very nasty side effects there is no transparency at all and even for someone who does *know* all this stuff beforehand still has to pull hens teeth to get the info from her Dr.
Very true - I was induced with my first two babies, had the syntocinon drip and both times suffered a PPH afterwards. Which I now know is one of the possible side effects of synto - something I was not told either before or after. In fact, I wasn't told anything about any of the possible side effects of the use of syntocinon at any time. Now, even after birthing my third baby with no synto and (surprise surprise) no PPH, the hospital still want me to have a cannula in my hand during labour JIC I haemorrhage again. So they don't acknowledge that it was the synto that caused it.
yep, me too with my one and only induction I had my one and only PPH. Even though at the time the induction was necessary, I would still have like to have known about it just so I knew that the induction could have been a contributing factor in it instead of just being told it was "one of those things that about 1 in 25 women will have' even my Dr was really shaken by it and took us aside a few days after her birth to tell us how concerned he was about me and that it was quite a serious event. And I thought he was one of the 'good guys' too.
in response to the original post, i reckon leave it to the wayside for now. tell her she is strong and beautiful and wish her all the best for the birth! (oh and tell her to visit BB sometime LOL!)
what i love about the BOBB is that it is not a horror movie. despite the fact that i went down the conventional, potentially high interventionist route of a private hospital and OB etc, the film allowed me to feel (i saw it 4 months after DD was born..at the BB screening) for the first time that what i did in birthing my daughter was beautiful and powerful (something that i felt was taken away from me by the hospital where birth is a business and we are all just objects on the treadmill popping one after the other). because i guess the overall message of the film is that birth can be and is empowering, and that it is time for us women to take back the power and claim birth for what it is: our baby, our choice. because at the end of the day being informed provides choice. without the women who have gone before us demanding choice there may never of been precedents of having babies in recovery post C-section, there may never of been rooming in at hospitals, let alone waterbirths!
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