Is Active Management Legal, without informed consent? by Donna Young, mother and grandmother, Canada.
(www.lotusbirth.com/doc/FEB2003Lotusbirth-534.htm)
Procedures Used During Child Birth - Natural Birth Education vs Active Management: by Donna Young, President of Natural Birth Education.
The medical policies of Active Management are questionable. The training of medical persons, are, apparently being influenced by drug companies, like the Merck Manual. Merck's web line is provided, below, if you wish to go directly to the link. This Merck Manual discusses active management, implied, for the care and treatment during a child's birth. This is regarding labor, tools, forceps, knives, vacuums, and drugs, like for example, oxytocin. (See Petition at the end of the Article to educate for natural birth education and practice).
The author, of this site, challenges "active management" which provides
for interventions. Most of them are unncessary.
Therefore, I have created a Petition, against active management and early umbilical cord clamping on
the infant's quality of life -
the hopeline, and potential genius security oxygenated blood and nutrient suppling cord line..
You may wish to exercise your democratic right to sign it, boldly, if you wish,
or you may sign anomalously. This is suggested, if
you are a career person(s), and fear reprisals from any group(s) alleging a imposed loyalty to any professional
organization.
However, no person has to remain unequally yoked to any group(s), by conscience and convictions of right
versus wrong.
If you know that most active management policies are dangerous, and the policies
in training have become questionable,
even outright false and harmful, or amoral, and are perceived to be breaching a duty to best practice
possible, least risk of harm
to another, or costs the society, the public at large, a burden in their tax dollars, then please visit
the Petition Link. The duty of us
all is -- do no harm and speak the truth as is the best to our knowledge and abilities.
The petition like is at: www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/102580814
These are all interventions and the mothers are not educated on natural birth education and practice
as their legal rights to
know about and choose, even in institutionalized births. For example, no clamping or cutting of
the umbilical cord ever, allowing
the baby to remain as a Biological Reciprocal Sealed-Unit. The cosmetic removal of the placenta
and cord and clamping done
by the mother herself, when she chooses not the medical persons, who may have a conflict of interest
in harvesting the baby's
deprived blood by early clamping.
The Hospital Administration Boards, have set policies, unknown to the mother, that they have allowed
the harvesting of the
placenta and used it to be sent to research and to burn centers for tissues taken of the placenta's
membranes, and used in
cosmetic company products, as well as it can be used in drugs. All this is known by the Food and Drug
Authorities, but the public
was not so informed.
Much of this what has been going on, in secret, I call the Conspiracy of Silence, has been by breach
of trust of using another's
organ without informed consent. This was being deemed the right of the State, Province, or Territory,
per each local hospital
involved by Ethics Boards making policies in each area, governed, in most cases by lawyers telling them
what they might do,
without informed consent of the consumers of the medical system.
No board can make a policy to use another's organ in transplants, or science without true informed consent. This is so,
according to natural laws of the owner of the organ or the legal guardian, the parent, involved in the
decision if organs are burned,
or used, and by whom.
No informed consent, it is a fiduciary breach of trust, even to use a baby's placenta and placenta blood. The blood essential for
the child's health and likely best chance of potential genius not compromised by early clamping and
oxygen debt to the brain cells
and central nervous system and immune system.
Most births, today, are manipulated to be that way by policies imposed by politicians, educators, drug
companies and the
medical persons. Sadly, many of these questionable practices and policies have included women doing
things to women, that
they should not be involved in or supporting unnatural and questionable practices using policies as
alibis when they have no
informed consent from the women involved in the birth process.
DRUGS:
All man-made drugs, have side effects on the child or the women. But, usually the women is not told in advance of side effects or risks to herself or the baby. There are also no list of the preservatives, or chemicals used, or the trace elements, or pH of the drugs made by man. And this means the women is not giving informed choice to the drugs offered by any medical person. The women is not warned in hospital administration of such labor drugs or during or after the birth as to any drugs risk of allergies, or other consequences of side effects. These are NOT revealed by The Merck Manual. Hospitals seem not to give informed choice on such matters when they get a woman to sign "appropriate care forms" if she is to have any assistance in their institutionalized births.
This Merck manual is an influence to all biology teachers and it is being used as guidance of policy
procedures to be imposed on
most women. Women for the past three and four generations have NOT been treated with respect for informed
choice and their
legal rights to have a signed birth contract of what can NOT be done to their body to birth a baby or
cannot be done to their baby,
during or after birth. Mothers have a legal right not to have clamping of their baby's umbilical
cord. It is not a required medical
procedure, but only done with risk of harm to the baby, as cosmetic procedure, the same as circumcision
is not a medical need,
but a cosmetic or religious trend.
The birth mothers have a legal right to say "NO" to any cutting of their body, and that
only they can approve otherwise, not their
spouses, and not the hospital. No doctor or policy can overrule self-determination and informed choice
even to a pregnant
women.
The birthing mother is not sick, and must not be treated as though she has no mind to make an informed
choice. For example, in
support of the women's own informed choice what is or is not done to her body or her baby, Ireland ruled
no pricking of the child's
skin to do PKU genetic testing can be imposed on the child. The UK ruled no court or doctor can
impose a cutting of the
women's body to birth a child. And in London, where no true informed choice was given or told
to the women, an abortion
brought a civil suit for the woman not tole the downside of regrets of her acceptance of an abortion...she
did not give true
informed consent, not knowing the side effects of depression of later regrets. These cases are availabe
on the Net under the
British Medical Journal, BMJ.
It hospitals and doctors practices of care and treatment by appropriate care, that is not informed consent,
and the policies, today,
as to the past 3 and 4 generations have been "active management." That is drugs, cutting,
early cord clamping and injections of
the mother and the child, which, if done without true consent are torts. They can be both civil
and criminal torts. It depends on the
judge and the Jury, per each case or class action...and review of what is informed consent.
Active management is for the business person. Natural Birth Education and Practice is for the
mother and the baby working as a
team to go for the natural deliverance of the baby when baby is ready, not before, and to come naturally
without unnecessary
interventions, and the mother agreeing to natural plans of birth, not man's manipulation of it or impatience
to it, generally, geared
to profits and a busy businessman schedule, and so of the hospitals busy staff. Profits have no
place in child birth, so I think.
There are millions of suits involved in active management for interruption of the child's circulation
system and adverse side
effects from drugs and cutting of the women's body.
Read this link by Merck: for full diagrams and information.
http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_home2/sec22/ch261/ch261e.htm
Section 22. Women's Health Issues
Chapter 261. Complications of Labor and Delivery
Topics: Introduction | Problems With the Timing of Labor | Problems Affecting the Fetus or Newborn | Problems Affecting the Woman | Procedures Used During Labor
Procedures Used During Labor
Induction of labor is the artificial starting of labor. Usually, labor is induced by giving the woman oxytocin, a hormone that makes the uterus contract more frequently and more forcefully. The oxytocin given is identical to the oxytocin produced by the pituitary gland. It is given intravenously with an infusion pump, so that the amount of drug given can be controlled precisely. Sometimes prostaglandins, which help the cervix dilate, are also given to help start labor. Throughout induction and labor, the fetus's heart rate is monitored electronically. At first, a monitor is placed on the woman's abdomen. After the membranes are ruptured, an internal monitor may be inserted through the vagina and attached to the fetus's scalp. If induction is unsuccessful, the baby is delivered by cesarean section.
(Comments by Donna Young: The oxytocin produced natually in the human body does not have chlorobutanol in it, or other possible ingredients, not shared with the public at large, such as if salt is used, like regular salt, iodized salt, or if MSG is used. chlorobutanol is a substance warned about that it can destroy the thyroid in both the mother and the child, so ten years later, this latent development would not have a trace back to the man-made oxytocin, wrongfull stated to be "identical". The only way oxytocin, man-made, can be identical to the human oxytocin if were cloned from a human hormone).
Augmentation of labor is the artificial hastening of labor that is proceeding ineffectively or
too slowly. Oxytocin is used to
augment labor. Labor is augmented when a woman has contractions that are not effectively moving the
fetus through the birth
canal.
Slowing of labor is the artificial delaying of labor that is proceeding too forcefully. Very
rarely, a woman has contractions
that are too strong, too close together, or both. If contractions are caused by the use of oxytocin,
the drug is discontinued
immediately. The woman may be repositioned and given analgesics. If the contractions occur spontaneously,
a drug that can
slow labor (such as terbutaline or ritodrine) may be given to stop or slow the contractions.
Forceps are metal surgical instruments, similar to tongs, with rounded edges that fit around
the fetus's head. Forceps are
occasionally used in a normal labor to ease delivery. Forceps may be required when the fetus is in distress
or abnormally
positioned, when the woman is having difficulty pushing, or when labor is prolonged. (Sometimes doctors
perform a cesarean
section instead.) If forceps delivery is tried and is unsuccessful, a cesarean section is performed.
Rarely, using forceps bruises
the baby's face or tears the woman's vagina.
See the figure Using Forceps or a Vacuum Extractor.
A vacuum extractor can be used instead of forceps to help with delivery. A vacuum extractor consists
of a small cup made of a
rubberlike material that is connected to a vacuum. It is inserted into the vagina and uses suction to
attach to the fetus's head.
Rarely, a vacuum extractor bruises the baby's scalp.
Cesarean section is surgical delivery of a baby by incision through a woman's abdomen and uterus.
Doctors perform this
procedure when they think it is safer than vaginal delivery for the woman, the baby, or both. In the
United States, about one
fourth of deliveries are cesarean sections. An obstetrician, an anesthesiologist, nurses, and sometimes
a pediatrician are
involved in this surgical procedure. Use of anesthetics, intravenous drugs, antibiotics, and blood transfusions
helps make a
cesarean section safe. Having the woman walk around soon after surgery reduces the risk of pulmonary
embolism, in which
blood clots that form in the legs or pelvis travel to the lungs and block arteries there. Compared with
a vaginal delivery, delivery by
cesarean section results in more overall pain afterward, a longer hospital stay, and a longer recovery
time.
For a cesarean section, an incision is made in the upper or lower part of the uterus. A lower incision
is more common. The lower
part of the uterus has fewer blood vessels, so that less blood is usually lost. Also, the healed scar
is stronger, so that it is less
likely to open in subsequent deliveries. A lower incision may be horizontal or vertical. Usually, an
upper incision is used when the
placenta covering the cervix (a complication called placenta previa), when the fetus lies horizontally
across the birth canal, or
when the fetus is very premature.
The choice of having a vaginal delivery or a repeat cesarean section is usually offered to women
who have had a lower
incision. Vaginal delivery is successful in about three fourths of these women. However,
such women should plan to have their
baby in facilities equipped to rapidly perform a cesarean section, because there is a very small
chance that the incision from
the previous cesarean section will open during labor.
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Note: PETITION www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/102580814
Please ask this site to have a Medical Alert Petition Site: petitions@earth.case2.com
We need support, Internationally, to help Canada correct or investigate present training of all medical persons who will or intend to be at a mother's birth.
We need support for informed choices, of both parents, that our babies are not being harvested by methods of Active Management.
Shared from a mother and grandmother, dyoung@pris.ca
web site, home page: www.lotusbirth.com
Other sites of Medical concern on early cord clamping: www.cordclamping.com
Modified: December 14, 2003
