Monday
Apr262010
Monday Open Thread
Monday, April 26, 2010 at 5:44PM
Tell us something interesting. Tell us something boring. Share a link. Promote yourself. De-lurk. Be mysterious and intriguing. Earn this kitten…
Ooh, or go click that Facebook “Like” button below so we can see what it does or if needs to go.
Reader Comments (45)
I buy my groceries and get paid to do so. It's true. Check out my blog. http://beadandelion.blogspot.com/2010/04/publix-my-shopping-trip-17-overage-on.html I show you how to do it.
ohhhhh and I had a painless home birth!
http://beamommydandelion.blogspot.com/2010/03/atlas-tiber-hazen-born-thursday-march.html
FYI, after I clicked the FB Like thing on this post and went back to my FB wall, it said "Sarah likes Example Web Page" (instead of TheUnnecesarean's link) and when I clicked on the "Example Web Page" hyperlink, it did not link back to your post but rather gave a "page not found" link. IDK where the problem is (Facebook or what).
I'm writing a twelve page persuasive research paper about unnecessary c-sections! It's coming along SO well. Probably my favorite academic paper I've ever written.
a fellow Hypnobabies instructor recently underwent a procedure (I think) to find a new place for her pacemaker lead.... using only local anesthetic and Hypnobabies Eyes Open hypnosis techniques
http://mommymichael.blogspot.com/2010/04/hypnobabies-for-life.html
"The heart procedure Tuesday afternoon went PERFECTLY. Dr. Blake was willing to let me use hypnosis for my anesthesia as long as things went well and they did! "
and later
"She then dismissed the anesthesiologist, thoracic surgeon, OR, and 2 units of blood that were all waiting in the wings."
come check out her shared story!
Also I found an article that says a substance found in breastmilk kills 40 types of cancer cells
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591289,00.html
Wow, over 600 likers in under an hour, but no comments! I'm eating pasta with tilapia and crab on top, with some white wine. YUM.
Oh, THERE's the comments!
What will it take to wake up America to the cesarean epidemic? What will it take for mothers to be to start educating themselves with something besides "What to Expect When Your Expecting?"
Maybe when we are all paying for it through nationalized health care. A $12,000 section vs. a $3,000 vaginal birth. About 25% of all health care cost are maternity costs. It's everybody's business now.
Mommymichael, I wish I had been a better Hypnobabies student. Reading stuff like that blows my mind. I just did the fear release stuff, which I loved, but maybe I should go back now and figure out how to do all of the finger drop or finger tap or whatever it's called stuff. Just in case I'm ever... in need of self-hypnosis, I guess?
Stassja, I don't know what's up with the 600+ likes. I really should understand the "Like" thinger more.
Did everyone adjust their Facebook privacy settings, by the way? There's that one "Allow" box that has to be unchecked...
I'm procrastinating writing my LAST LAW SCHOOL PAPER EVER by reading blogs and the above commentor just lit a fire under my bum. Thanks!
The paper is about the postpartum depression support provisions that passed with healthcare reform & the legislative treatment of research about PPD.
I heart that kitten.
Hey, I'm working on a list of birth resources... anybody have other suggestions for books, articles, websites, blogs that help women learn more about birth and/or available birth choices? My email address is at the bottom of that link, if you have ideas for me!
i feel like I was a pretty damn good Hypnobabies student and it even blows MY mind!!
I've used my hypnosis for other things - like getting a tattoo. Three hours and only felt like tingling. Not my first tattoo, but my first time not feeling the need to say "annnd okay, i'm done!" lol
really all it takes is listening to the cd's, and practicing the finger drop every day. =) I don't plan on ever taking the scripts off my ipod!
Stassja, have a glass of wine for me, willya? A nice cool Gewurztraminer or Reisling would be really nice right now.
The other night as I was drifiting off to sleep, it occurred to me that a whole lot of women I know seem to *want* to be patronized by their OBs. One friend told me (literally) "It's my job to grow the baby, it's my doctor's job to get it out of me." I'm not quite sure how universal that feeling is, but I'm sure that friend isn't alone in her feeling that she hired an OB to "deal with" the birth. How we can go about changing that is a big blank for me. I keep telling myself, one woman at a time.... one woman at a time. I'll probably be blogging about it in the near future.
Rebecca, congrats on wrapping things up. That is awesome.
Sunflowergrrl, I started typing up something about the backlash to the goal of lowering the cesarean rate from 22% to 15%. It felt familiar, so I searched this site and found this old buried post:
Efforts to limit the number of Cesarean sections performed are historically followed by a medical backlash to warn against lowering the rate, which relies heavily on the vaginal-birth-as-dangerous rhetoric. In 1999, four U.S. obstetricians recommended a moratorium on reducing the national c-section rate as a response to the "Healthy People 2000 Project" of the Department of Health and Human Services that sought to lower the then rate of 22 percent down to 15 percent.
Dr. Benjamin Sachs, the chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. called the setting of such a goal "a paternalistic approach to health care delivery" and stated that "[r]esearch into maternal and infant safety issues and a true cost-benefits analysis are needed to define the optimal cesarean delivery rate."
Sachs described the United States' childbirth record as one of the best in the world. "We should take pride in the incredible childbirth safety record that we have in this country,"said Sachs in 1999.
The U.S. currently ranks 41st among industrialized nations in maternal mortality. The Cesarean rate has risen from 22 percent to 31.1 percent since Sachs and colleagues called for the moratorium.
In December, Dr. Marsden Wagner, former Director of Women’s and Children’s Health for the World Health Organization stated, “In the past twenty years in the U.S., the maternal mortality rate keeps rising and rising while the rate of c-section continues to rise. It can now be reliably calculated that [the] c-section is the number one cause of maternal mortality in the U.S.--at least 45% of all maternal death is associated with a c-section.”
Campaigns led by doctors against attempting to lower the c-section rate have historically claimed that saving money is at the heart of the issue rather than the well-being of women.
In the early 1990's in Los Angeles County, poor women delivering in overcrowded county hospitals and those on Medi-cal were the first targeted in attempts to lower the Cesarean rate, while women with private insurance remained twice as likely to have the surgery than their uninsured counterparts. In essence, doctors themselves indicated that monetary compensation is a primary variable in deciding whether or not to section a woman.
So you know what's nuts? Benjamin Sachs just stepped down as Chief of Staff at Beth Israel in August, leaving behind a 42 PERCENT CESAREAN RATE. Someone who fought the effort to lower the rate below the 22 percent nearly doubled it at BIDMC.
Wonder when the shift in attitude towards having a cesarean changed to just another "option" like natural or pain meds. My mother was telling me how when she was young she remembered ladies talking about a woman who had to have a c-section as having to have the baby "taken" from the mother. There would be tears and all about the mother who had to have her baby taken.... How did we get from that to this?
I've lurked for a few months, not commented much. I had my son a month ago by unplanned, but probably necessary, c-section (there's always that element of doubt, I guess), and just wrote his birth story today at http://mama-rants.blogspot.com
I'm not sure if mine was unnecessary.... i wanted an ncb so I went in at 4 did 11 hours of hard labor...got checked and still at 4! So i was advised by the midwife to get on pit drip with an epi. Did another 10 hours and was only at a 5! At that point everyone including the midwife advised a csection was probably a good idea. I did it. My baby was posterier as well which is probably why she never engaged in the bcanal.
I was telling DH last night about how upset I was about yet ANOTHER friend who was induced and then had a c-section (baby was 5lb 9oz...obviously not REALLY late but doctors were pushy). He asked if I was always going to be so passionate about unneccesary c-sections, YES I AM! Something needs to change and if I can help just by telling my story and educating women I'm going to do it.