tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4181472671648618071.post49293924026257017..comments2023-10-18T15:20:33.029+01:00Comments on cesarean debate (now caesareanbirth.org): Maternal request cesarean a "societal and professional failure"? I don't think socesarean debatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01711913972260724246noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4181472671648618071.post-30940227070462801452012-11-12T07:17:31.592+00:002012-11-12T07:17:31.592+00:00Here, here. But to be fair, 'Birth' isn&#...Here, here. But to be fair, 'Birth' isn't so much a scientific journal as it is a compendium of natural birth advocacy opinion pieces.Mrs. W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00421131727849720502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4181472671648618071.post-62865926720038648722012-11-12T00:37:37.768+00:002012-11-12T00:37:37.768+00:00Professor Klein's entire career has been based...Professor Klein's entire career has been based on ideology. The women of British Columbia (where he was influencial in training a generation of OBs, Family Docs and RNs in maternity care) have sufferred because of him and it's going to take years for the damage to be undone - for the women of BC to uniformly have access to the entire range of informed childbirth choices. Right now there is a plethora of ideology, a shortage of anesthesiologists and a system that thinks nothing of denying someone a maternal request c-section.<br /><br />This is the province that has the "power to push" campaign - started with the explicit goal of lowering the c-section rate. They have special clinic (the better birth or best birth clinic can't remember) that exists to "council" women that request c-sections, women carrying breech babies and VBAC candidates. I wonder what they recommend hmmm?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com