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If you'd like to know how 'normal birth', an anti-medical doctrine, became national policy in UK maternity care, my book is out.
Catherine Roy
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Catherine Roy
@catherineroyuk
Author of Maternity: An Ongoing British Scandal 👉amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0GPND…
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Joined October 2017
- Shame on you @NICEComms. Agreeing that healthcare professionals can offer pseudoscientific pain relief to women in labour is nothing short of a scandal. Shame on you. New NICE intrapartum guidelines nice.org.uk/guidance/ng235 1/
- More nonsense in NHS maternity care. Look closely. The inscription on the comb reads: "It's not pain, it's power" @sashnhs Does your advice about pain in other services tell patients that pain isn't material but is in fact power?
- Replying to @catherineroyukThe Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association @OAAinfo explained to you why it makes no sense. You ignored them. What is the mechanism @NICEComms? How does it work? Can you tell us? 2/
- The rulings into the conduct of the two Cheltenham birth centre midwives who have been struck off have been published. This is what stands out aside from what has already been reported in the press.🧵 1/17
- Replying to @catherineroyuk
- Replying to @drphiliplee1And then, to taunt you, la boulangerie Loubère in Biarritz have "pains au chocolat" as well! A mini-baguette with a hard piece of chocolate in it. Photo: bottom left chocolatine, top right pain au chocolat (du sud ouest!)
- Replying to @catherineroyukThis fact alone warrants a wider investigation, to find out how many staff hold this belief that it is better not to use the emergency bell at a birth centre because there's no emergency bell when you give birth at home and that using it would scare other mothers. @mpmwilko 7/
- Replying to @catherineroyukThis belief is rooted in 'normal birth' ideology, wanting to keep birth 'normal' and viewing calling for medical input as an interference to the natural process of birth. 8/
- Replying to @catherineroyukTwo mothers seemed to have been shunned by staff because they wanted to plan their births at the hospital rather than at the birth centre in Cheltenham. This is the toxic culture that normal birth foments, treating mothers differently based on where they want to give birth. 12/
- Replying to @catherineroyukThe reason why the emergency bell was turned off was because of a belief in creating a "home from home environment", and emergency bells aren't used at home. 6/
- The NHS, a special world where people who raise legitimate patient safety issues get bullied out of their job but people who cover up harm they have caused continue working undisturbed.
- Replying to @catherineroyukWhen handed over the care of Patient B, Ms Williams didn't read the notes "as she felt it more important to form a relationship". This is prioritising the 'social model of care' of normal birth over providing medical care. It is what midwifery continuity of carer is pushing. 10/
- This is at the heart of what has led to the maternity scandals of the last 3 decades, that clinicians find it unacceptable that women might ask to for a caesarean if they knew about the risks of planned vaginal birth. In other words, that women might exercise their own judgement.Am I the only one who spotted this in the #birthtraumainquiry report? The president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists saying the quiet part out loud? 😱👇
