Submissions to NSW’s landmark birth trauma inquiry reveal disagreement between those who work in the delivery room about the origins of labour distress.
Social media and birth plans are giving parents unreasonable expectations of control during labour and setting them up for unnecessary distress, the peak body representing doctors has claimed.
While the AMA said health practitioners would endeavour to accommodate a birth plan, sometimes they were not medically safe and staff needed to make “split second decisions” for the health of mother, baby or both. “The challenge is looking at why a woman wants to have a birth plan because respectful and woman-centred care should already be part of obstetrics,” she said, adding the best plan was “a healthy mum and a healthy baby”., the NSW Legislative Council’s birth trauma inquiry is the first of its kind in Australia.It will investigate the prevalence of trauma as a result of “inappropriate, disrespectful or abusive treatment ...
In a defensive submission to the inquiry, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists criticised the use of the term “obstetric violence”, calling for it to be changed. The college and the AMA, which did not use the phrase “obstetric violence” in its submission, both highlighted the overwhelming safety of birth in Australia.
“Informed consent is not often gained as there is only one side of the information being portrayed,” the second member said.
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