Article on violence against labouring women
There is more awareness of violence against labouring women, as this article shows (link below). It is the bare minimum that no one under Dr. Claudia Holland's care dies. Labouring women have the right not to be abused and if obstetricians don't understand that, they should not be allowed to deliver babies.
This article doesn't even address the kind of abuse I received from Claudia Holland, M.D., which is detailed in this blog: shouting threats when she burst into the O.R., keeping me waiting under anesthesia, strapped down on the O.R. table for 20 minutes plus because her colleague had another emergency to attend to (St. Luke's Hospital allowed this to happen), slamming my body on the table, telling the other doctors she "nearly had to take out the uterus" and then walking out without explanation never to be seen again, an inadequate suture (according to my current O.B. at NYU Medical Center) that nearly ruptured during the birth of my son.
What it does outline is the kind of violence that has become commonplace.
http://mumanu.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/violence-against-pregnant-and-labouring-women/
"During labour, telling a woman that if she doesn’t birth her baby within two hours they will do a ceasarean is like telling a man that he has to have an orgasm within the next three minutes or they will cut the end of his penis…. except what they are threatening the woman with is major surgery. A woman doesn’t need to know what might happen while she’s in labour as this will disrupt her feelings of safety and the release of hormones that will improve her chances of a safe and easy birth."
This article doesn't even address the kind of abuse I received from Claudia Holland, M.D., which is detailed in this blog: shouting threats when she burst into the O.R., keeping me waiting under anesthesia, strapped down on the O.R. table for 20 minutes plus because her colleague had another emergency to attend to (St. Luke's Hospital allowed this to happen), slamming my body on the table, telling the other doctors she "nearly had to take out the uterus" and then walking out without explanation never to be seen again, an inadequate suture (according to my current O.B. at NYU Medical Center) that nearly ruptured during the birth of my son.
What it does outline is the kind of violence that has become commonplace.
http://mumanu.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/violence-against-pregnant-and-labouring-women/
"During labour, telling a woman that if she doesn’t birth her baby within two hours they will do a ceasarean is like telling a man that he has to have an orgasm within the next three minutes or they will cut the end of his penis…. except what they are threatening the woman with is major surgery. A woman doesn’t need to know what might happen while she’s in labour as this will disrupt her feelings of safety and the release of hormones that will improve her chances of a safe and easy birth."
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