Women's Hour R4 NOW

[Otta]

I just heard the intro to womens hour, and was surprised to hear that they will be discussing whether some doctors and midwives are "forcing" / pushing women in to having unnecessary interventions during labour.

"Are doctors and midwives forcing women to have unnecessary interventions when they give birth? Human rights lawyer and the chair of the new Birthrights charity Elizabeth Prochaska says there is growing evidence that women are feel they are being pressed into certain treatments or interventions which are not appropriate for them or their baby. Jane is joined by Elizabeth and by Daghni Rajasingham, Consultant Obstetrician, Guys and St Thomas' Foundation Trust Hospital, and an official spokesperson for Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ptbwy

This would seem to be the opposite issue to what a lot of women report (begging for interventions and being put off / ignored).

Anyway, thought it might interest some of the Family Room folk.

[Natalie Doula]

Thanks Otta,

I will do my best to tune in or catch it in Iplayer

[Lochie]

Think it might have come off the back of the Kirsty Allsop twitter NCT debate last week which got a lot of coverage

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/11/caesareans-natural-birth-kirstie-allsopp

[Saila]

I agree w OP.

And aecdotally, I get impression my experience is the norm -i had to fight to get the intervention I wanted and (as it turned out) needed.

[Saila]

Saying that, perhaps experiences in london hospitals are very different to outside london?