Diatribe
He has done it again. There I am, being a happy little sage-femme, the French term for midwife meaning wise woman, and up pops my favourite G.P with one of his regular anti-midwife blog entries. He really, really has a problem with midwives, or madwives as he so humorously refers to us. If his 'evidence' against the midwifery profession were based on fact I could swallow it, I would have to, but what he appears to do is pull statistics regarding maternity services and lay them out as only pertaining to midwives, and they are not, they include obstetricians and even, shock horror, G.P's. Yes, we are all human and therefore all, whether we like it or not, fallible.
MIL's funeral yesterday, lovely service, the Minister did her proud. Hubby stood up and did a short tribute to her, I cried, not because of MIL (sounds mean but we had a difficult relationship) but I cried for Hubby as his Mum, who he loved dearly, has died. The food, supplied by M & S was fantastic and abundant. I contributed a Pavlova which was requested by my off-spring as MIL always made this dessert when we went visiting, apparently it was good, I was too late to try any. All the in-laws stayed over, including the child from hell, I have rounded up all the stray beans from where he split my bean-bag, repaired the mechanism on the reclining chair and replaced the shower curtain he tore. My nephew, the wild-child off-spring of an educational psychologist, and the grandchild of a Head of Education and a primary school teacher.
Poor little Jack is proper poorly at the moment, he has a raging temperature and is a very subdued little boy. Tepid baths and regular Calpol/Calprofen are the order of the day. Amy is just reaching that entertaining stage when they come out with little phrases that send me off into peals of laughter. Today we were treated to 'Wow, delicious' as she ate her lunch of ham and cheese and later, when I suggested I change her dirty nappy an extremely polite, and serious, 'No thank you Nanny'.
Thank you to all who have expressed condolences (for MIL) and congratulations (for twin-bearing daughter) I'm sorry that I havn't got round to responding individually.
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Misogynia / Website (18.3.07 11:34) Yes, DR (I obviously have no life apart from blogging) CRIPPEN is totally misinformed. Let ALL the half a million babies born a year be delivered by doctors...his maternity utopia. What a crazy man. He is so up his own arse it is unbelievable. Does he not realise that the midwives (madwives) think he is a total nob? They laugh at him. Not worth getting angry about midwife-muse, he has obviously got a muderous hatred of the very women who are probably the most popular with the Britsh public. Keep on doing a fantastic job and don`t let elderly doctors get you down 
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Antigonos / Website (19.3.07 08:49) I had the idea that he thinks qualified midwives are OK but that what are called in the US "direct entry" midwives--those without nursing qualification--are dangerous. They are. You have only to check out a site like http://sagefemme.blogspot.com/ to see just how dangerous. The newest gimmick apparently is to sit by and let the woman deliver herself. |
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minks / Website (19.3.07 15:28) I am so sorry. And WOW! Twins! Very exciting. (Everytime I hear that someone is having twins, I breathe a HUGE sigh of relief, that it isn't me) xx |
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princessfairytoes / Website (19.3.07 15:58) Twins yeahhhh that should be fun |
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midwifemuse / Website (19.3.07 19:14) Misogynia - Thank you for your reassurances. I just find Dr Crippens derogatory descriptions of Midwives upsetting and, thankfully, not representative of the G.P's and Obstetricians I work with. Antigonos - In the UK we also have 'Direct Entry' midwives who complete a 3 year course with a 6 month nursing secondment. From the entries re. midwives from Dr C that I have read he is making no distinction between type of training and is referring to midwives in the UK. I have read Sage Femme, I would be concerned about some of her practices but would love to shadow her for a month just to see how hands off, safe etc. she really is. Minks - Thank you. Daughter is just breathing huge sighs, constantly, and they are not relief! More like gasps of horror really. Princess - I'm sure that in 2 years or so it will be fun! |
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Della (19.3.07 20:17) I would just like to add in reference to the comments above that in the UK they are now making midwifery a direct-entry only profession. I am a 3rd year student nurse, and was planning on doing the 18 month conversion course for qualified nurses to Midwifery in a few years after having my family. However they have now stopped the 18 month course for qualified nurses, so now the only way into Midwifery is the full 3 year Midwifery degree, for which you do not need a nursing qualification. I think it is very untrue to say all direct-entry midwives are dangerous! Some might argue they are actually better than nurse-midwives because they have spent 3 years studying Midwifery rather than only 18 months. ps. I agree Dr Cippen is an ignorant arse! Don't listen to him 
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minks / Website (21.3.07 07:34) MM- meet my Mum http://noviceblogger.vox.com/ |