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Wall Street Journal Article on Doulas
Did anyone see this article? It's in today's paper, front page. The
article implies that doulas are negatively interfering with the doctor/patient relationship and that patients are, on advice of their doulas, rejecting interventions. There were some anecdotes such as a woman whose water had broken refusing pitocin who then delivered a baby with an infection and the like. It was very negative about doulas. Just wondering if anyone had any reaction... |
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Wall Street Journal Article on Doulas
Rachel wrote:
Did anyone see this article? I was just thinking about it as I read through the court-ordered C-section thread. It was very negative about doulas. Wasn't it, though? I really wasn't sure what to think. One of my concerns in deciding whether to have a doula if we did a hospital birth is that I anticipated a doula wouldn't advocate *enough* for what I wanted. And it was impossible to tell from the article what the women in question wanted: were they being swayed into turning down interventions because of non-interventionist doulas, or did they hire doulas specifically because they wanted someone to talk them out of interventions? I guess the thing I thought most was that choosing a good doula can't make up for choosing a bad (for you) doctor, and I suspect most of those women (rightly or wrongly) didn't have a lot of faith in their doctors. Phoebe -- yahoo address is unread; substitute mailbolt |
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Wall Street Journal Article on Doulas
Personally, I don't get my birthing advice from the Wall Street
Journal....However there are a lot of uninformed people who may. It's just a sad commentary that this newspaper even feels the need to wade into the birthing process. I'm sure that there is anecdotal evidence to back up that sometimes a doula can interfere with the doctor/patient relationship....However, for every negative anecdote, I'm sure we could come up with 5 positive ones. My reaction is BLECCCCCHHHHH......Shevonne "Rachel" wrote in message om... Did anyone see this article? It's in today's paper, front page. The article implies that doulas are negatively interfering with the doctor/patient relationship and that patients are, on advice of their doulas, rejecting interventions. There were some anecdotes such as a woman whose water had broken refusing pitocin who then delivered a baby with an infection and the like. It was very negative about doulas. Just wondering if anyone had any reaction... --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.537 / Virus Database: 332 - Release Date: 11/8/2003 |
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Wall Street Journal Article on Doulas
Rachel wrote:
|| Did anyone see this article? It's in today's paper, front page. The || article implies that doulas are negatively interfering with the || doctor/patient relationship and that patients are, on advice of their || doulas, rejecting interventions. There were some anecdotes such as a || woman whose water had broken refusing pitocin who then delivered a || baby with an infection and the like. It was very negative about || doulas. Just wondering if anyone had any reaction... I haven't read it yet but my first reaction is......which doc/doula does one think caused the problem in that scenario....the doula that stood up for and comforted the patient or the doctor that surely caused the infection due to internal exams (sterile gloves or not checking the cervix for dilation pushes the vaginal bacteria up into the cervix)??????? Funny how they can easily put a negative spin on doulas/Midwives and such in the media but OBs still seem to be shown in a positive light. It infuriates me :-\ --? Jenn -WAHM -DS Feb'92 -DD Feb'97 -Jellyfish due June 25/04 |
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Wall Street Journal Article on Doulas
I'm delurking here.
Hi all, I was interviewed and quoted in the article (Susan from Louisville, KY) and had no idea this was the woman's take on doulas. She did not tell my incredibly successful story of an unmedicated VBAC. It was highly slanted towards the patriarchal, medical line. I would strongly advise anyone having a VBAC to get one. I truly believe that my first c-section could have been prevented had I had one then. Anecdotal, I know but I believe with all my heart that it's true. Happy, safe births to all. Susan Rachel wrote: Did anyone see this article? It's in today's paper, front page. The article implies that doulas are negatively interfering with the doctor/patient relationship and that patients are, on advice of their doulas, rejecting interventions. There were some anecdotes such as a woman whose water had broken refusing pitocin who then delivered a baby with an infection and the like. It was very negative about doulas. Just wondering if anyone had any reaction... |
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