Saturday, March 26, 2011

Power and Control

The more time I spend within the birth community the more stories and experiences I have and hear the more I realise that every one wants to control the pregnant woman its like she has no ability for control her self.
A lot of the controlling is done with good heart in mind - we tell them what and what they can eat , how much and they should exercise, how much weight they should gain - these are simple thing then we go on to discuss and control whether or not they will be able to birth their baby we use ultra sound scans to decide how long they are pregnant even though they know when they conceived we do not listen we control, then we tell them if they are in labor or not no matter what the woman is experiencing , we then decided the labor is going at the speed it needs to and whether we need to help them by speeding up the labor if its not following the plan all this is done in the name of safety - Some of what we try and control has out come that relate to positive health gains but so much of what we do is ritualistic.

But do we the health care professional make our own problems by the time labor comes have we made the woman so insecure about her self that she know longer able to make decisions and cope without are instruction. Have we completely dis empowered her? Has she totally surrendered to us that she know longer knows how to listen to her own body, no longer able to trust themselves ? Should one slip through the net and still feel strong and confident by the time birth comes we look at her oddly thinking that they are demanding and " one of those" and then with bated breath we wait for them to fail so we gleam some control back. I can hear all the health care professionals scream litigation litigation but really is everything we control really about litigation or is some of it, a lot of it, to encourage and support are own egos.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Ga. Law Could Give Death Penalty for Miscarriages | Mother Jones

Ga. Law Could Give Death Penalty for Miscarriages Mother Jones

After reading this I have to remind my self that I am living in one of the greatest countries in the world. Is it just me or is it ridiculous to believe that elected officials would behave this way. Even if you are Pro- life there is no way that such absurdity can be acceptable to you. I do not believe that abortion is taken lightly by anyone and it is not with out its long lasting effects. Placing woman in danger by placing abortion again to the frindge of society is not the way forward..it surly this is back ward steps...