Doctors refusing HB mothers prescriptions

[Trillian]

But I would have thought the IM would have all that stuff with her anyway? I know I had Eden in a birth centre, but its basically a homebirth (just not in my house haha) and the only drug she had there was the one to stop bleeding - cos I did have a bleed after her. So I would imagine if I ever had another child and it was a home birth, my midwife would bring the same stuff to my house as she has in the centre?

Seems strange that they have to ask for the prescriptions? Dunno about the vitamin K cos we didn't give that to eden after she was born.

I'm with Arimeh, Midwives are supposed to have all that, plus oxygen etc JIC it is needed. I'm thinking that the women asking for prescriptions for synctocinon are freebirthing and in that case, like it or not, these are drugs that should not be administered by people who don't know what they are doing.

ETA - Plus I think it opens up a whole other issue that JIC something does go wrong, someone is going to want to know where the woman got a script for it, and if it comes back to a Dr who wrote a script based on a letter from a midwife, then it is him on the line as well and why should he be? Why can't they have the option of saying they don't want to fill the script. Why can't the midwife do it? I'm all for homebirths, but gee, if you want it to work it has to work both ways.