http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2008/06/amas-resolution-on-homebirth Daily dose of women's health news and media analysis Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:04:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2008/06/amas-resolution-on-homebirth/comment-page-1#comment-520 Labor Nurse Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:34:08 +0000 http://ourbodies.s467.sureserver.com/blog/2008/06/amas-resolution-on-homebirth#comment-520 On the celebrity influence: the AMA and ACOG didn't seem to mind when the headlines were boasting planned elective c-sections among the celebrities. Apparently if celebrities are doing things that will ultimately support, or boost rather, their obstetrics practice and income then it isn't an issue that needs to be addressed via a resolution. Weird, huh? On the celebrity influence: the AMA and ACOG didn’t seem to mind when the headlines were boasting planned elective c-sections among the celebrities. Apparently if celebrities are doing things that will ultimately support, or boost rather, their obstetrics practice and income then it isn’t an issue that needs to be addressed via a resolution. Weird, huh?

]]> http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2008/06/amas-resolution-on-homebirth/comment-page-1#comment-519 vesta44 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:34:49 +0000 http://ourbodies.s467.sureserver.com/blog/2008/06/amas-resolution-on-homebirth#comment-519 Doctors have been doing this kind of crap for more years than I've been alive, and I don't think it's going to end any time soon. When I was 25 (almost 30 years ago now), I wanted to have my tubes tied. I was single, had one child at home (and had been pregnant 4 times, 1st time was an accident (gave that child up), 2nd time I was on the pill (the son at home), 3rd and 4th times I had an IUD [ending in abortions]). The doctor who was to do my tubal ligation tried his damnedest to talk me out of it, knowing my history and that conventional bc didn't seem to work for me. He kept saying things like "What if you meet a man and marry him and he wants children? You won't be able to give him any, and he might not want to stay with you." I told him that any man I met that I would want to marry would know that I couldn't have more children, that I didn't <i>want</i> more children, and would be fine with that, or he could hit the road. It took me two hours of argument to show him that I was serious about wanting my tubes tied. I finally told him: "Fine, you don't want my insurance money for this procedure, I'll go somewhere else where they do want my money and won't presume to know what is best for me and my life." Then it was all "No, no, we'll do it, that's fine, whatever you want." Yeah, right, whatever I want as long as you get to do your nasty hounding propaganda that it's all about what the next man in my life wants me to do, <b>I</b> don't really have a say in the matter till it hits you in your wallet. Doctors have been doing this kind of crap for more years than I’ve been alive, and I don’t think it’s going to end any time soon. When I was 25 (almost 30 years ago now), I wanted to have my tubes tied. I was single, had one child at home (and had been pregnant 4 times, 1st time was an accident (gave that child up), 2nd time I was on the pill (the son at home), 3rd and 4th times I had an IUD [ending in abortions]). The doctor who was to do my tubal ligation tried his damnedest to talk me out of it, knowing my history and that conventional bc didn’t seem to work for me. He kept saying things like “What if you meet a man and marry him and he wants children? You won’t be able to give him any, and he might not want to stay with you.” I told him that any man I met that I would want to marry would know that I couldn’t have more children, that I didn’t want more children, and would be fine with that, or he could hit the road. It took me two hours of argument to show him that I was serious about wanting my tubes tied. I finally told him: “Fine, you don’t want my insurance money for this procedure, I’ll go somewhere else where they do want my money and won’t presume to know what is best for me and my life.” Then it was all “No, no, we’ll do it, that’s fine, whatever you want.” Yeah, right, whatever I want as long as you get to do your nasty hounding propaganda that it’s all about what the next man in my life wants me to do, I don’t really have a say in the matter till it hits you in your wallet.

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