Prevention for women veterans (babies too)
PREVENTION FOR WOMEN VETERANS (BABIES TOO)
"Women Veterans Program Managers...welcome your ideas and value your opinions, call...or send...e-mail." http://www.visn1.med.va.gov/womenvet/wvcontact.htm OPEN LETTER (archived for global access; see below) Kathleen Lyons, RN Women Veterans Program Togus VAMC VISN 1 1 VA Center Togus, ME 04330 Phone: (207) 623-8411, ext. 4017 Fax: (207) 621-4895 Kathleen, OBs are knowingly closing birth canals up to 30% and performing episiotomies and c-sections fraudulently/surgically inferring they are doing/have done everything possible to open birth canals. Many unnecessary surgeries are being performed and babies are being harmed. I am hoping that Women Veteran Program Managers (in Veterans Integrated Services Networks everywhere; not just in VISN One) will start educating all women veterans that: 1) OBs are knowingly closing birth canals up to 30%; and 2) that it is easy for women to allow their birth canals to open the "extra" up to 30%. All women have to do is roll onto their side as they push their babies out. Women should be warned though that some OBs let women "try" alternative birth positions but move them back to semisitting or dorsal (close their birth canals up to 30%) for the actual delivery. I mention this simple PREVENTIVE measure because the Togus VAMC "emphasizes primary, specialty, and PREVENTIVE care..." http://www.visn1.med.va.gov/togus/ (emphasis added) ....and because Women Veterans Program Managers "advocate for equal access to primary and PREVENTIVE health care for women..." http://www.visn1.med.va.gov/womenvet/ (emphasis added) I note that the Women Veterans Program actually includes Maternity Care at some VISN sites... http://www.visn1.med.va.gov/womenvet/wvhealthsvc.htm Please make sure that women veterans using maternity care at these VISN sites are made aware that OBs are not only closing birth canals they are KEEPING birth canals closed - both when shoulders get stuck (in shoulder dystocia) and when they use forceps and vacuum extractors. Please inform them also that OBs close birth canals as uteri push and keep birth canals closed as they (OBs) chemically whip uteri to push violently - with oxytocin and Cytotec. Yes, most babies do "OK" - but an estimated 4.6% of "healthy" term babies are suffering unexplained brain bleeds. Some babies die, some get paralyzed - most "only" have their spines gruesomely wrenched. ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal closed - and to a baby with trapped shoulders - the birth canal is indeed closed. It's a rather massive (sometimes fatal) spinal manipulation felony. Medical doctors agree with "my" biomechanics; but they understandably don't want to speak up and call for an immediate end to the obvious obstetric felony... See Obstetric roof on fire! (The problem and Dr. Sarah...) http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2843 Please urge all the VISNs to immediately begin offering women this simple PREVENTIVE health care. Thanks. Sincerely, Todd Dr. Gastaldo PS Tim Dennis, DC, CCRD, who I believe is the first chiropractic physician to serve in the VA system was recently selected to begin treating patients at Togus. http://www.chiroweb.com/dynamic/temp/dc_va.html Tim knows that an important lesson learned in chiropractic college is when NOT to manipulate the spine. With OBs closing birth canals up to 30% and sometimes pulling so hard they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords... Tim will no doubt want to help there at Togus VAMC in the educational effort to stop OBs from closing birth canals and gruesomely manipulating most babies' spines. Will you forward this email to Tim - via email or surface mail? Thanks in advance. I'm hoping VISN 1 will take the lead in passing the word to all women veterans and VA maternity centers. Actually, this information should be passed to ALL veterans. Many no doubt have daughters or daughters-in-law who are pregnant. Copied to: Bedford VAMC Coordinator: Kenda Kiely, LICSW VA Boston Healthcare System Jamaica Plain Campus 150 S. Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02130 Coordinator: Patricia Robinson, LICSW VA Boston Healthcare System Brockton Campus Coordinator: Diane Harness-DiGloria, RNP Manchester VAMC 718 Smyth Road Manchester, NH 03104 Coordinator: Diana True Northampton VAMC 421 North Main Street Leeds, MA 01053 Coordinator: Mary Dillon Sikoski, RN, MEd. Providence VAMC 830 Chalkstone Avenue Providence, RI 02908 Coordinator: Barbara Soncrant, RN VA Connecticut West Haven Campus 950 Campbell Avenue West Haven, CT 06516 Coordinator: Jane Sarja, NP White River Junction VAMC & ROC 215 North Main Street White River Junction, VT 05009 Coordinator: Bobbie Surott Kimberly, MSW, CTRS |
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