AMA gets all huffy about home births

[luluisme]

Ricki Lake, Jennifer Block, and Abby Epstein: Docs to Women: Pay No Attention to Ricki Lake's Home Birth

Highlights, emphasis mine:
* Yesterday at its annual meeting [the AMA] adopted a policy written by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists against "home deliveries" and in support of legislation "that helps ensure safe

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[cuddlebunni3]

You know, in some ways it's kinda comforting to know that after almost 200 years, the AMA has the same policy it always had. Stability and commitment is what I call that. It's an organization that built itself on discrediting mid-wives... it been working for 2 centuries so why change now. I love a scientific organization that gives it's reason for doing things as... "cause" ~rolls eyes~

[el_bastarde]

That doesn't surprise me at all. Doctors have this holier than thou attitude about everything. I've had so many bad experiences with doctors it's not even funny.

Your post is just one more example of how completely f'ed the whole medical system is.

[skyethebard]

We already talked about this at length but I have to restate that this pisses me off. The average woman in labor DOES NOT NEED A SURGEON!!!

As for the scissors/vagina nightmare, I had a 10lb 4oz baby and if I HAD been cut, I would have torn through the entire vaginal wall and into the rectum. I would have had a lot of bleeding, a lot more pain and I could have gotten a horrible infection. My hospital stay would have been about a week long. The midwives never even proposed an episiotomy. They had Big and I stretch the area out through oil and message for weeks leading to the birth. Of course, docs would not have performed an episiotomy either because they probably would have insisted I have an unnecessary c-section.

Meh.