NZ:
‘Baby’s death: Midwife admits failings
A midwife has admitted failings that contributed to the death of a newborn baby during a birth that almost claimed the life of his mother too.
..Ms Campbell, then a new graduate with seven months experience and operating as a self-employed independent midwife under the name Jennifer Rowan, was later found by the Health and Disability Commissioner to have made a catalogue of errors that led to the baby’s death and extensive injuries to Mrs Barlow.
…Earlier Mrs Barlow was discouraged from going to hospital by Ms Campbell and instead sent home from River Ridge birthing centre against her wishes…’
CrusaderRabbit
FOR LIBERTY
Midwives. Why do they still exist in NZ?
When my wife was due with our first child, we went to a private hospital in the next town. The owner of the clinic was the chief obstetrician, and he had two capable nurses with him.
During the birth, the umbilical cord got wrapped around my daughter’s neck. The doctor was monitoring her vital signs, and made the decision to get her out and into this world, as every second counted.
If the same situation had occurred in NZ with a midwife, I am sure our daughter would have been stillborn or permanently brain damaged due to oxygen starvation.
I came out blue and am still recovering from it and our sun would be death without cesarean.
“She underwent some supervision and extra training including a competence programme, but is now free to practice without conditions.”
How anyone in this world could conceivably put their uniform back on after a screwup of this magnitude is beyond me, much less be given a green light by the powers that be.
I can only hope that this woman is sued into the dark ages, where her profession belongs.
Midwives took over from Doctors during the term of our past lesbian PM Helen Clarke. Chucking out the evil MALE doctors was part of her progressive liberal thinking. I knew then that lives would be lost and so it has come to pass. In my day midwives had to be registered nurses but not anymore. I would not go near one.
Yes, she just had to get rid of the patriarchy in women’s health care. The “National Women’s” scandal which relied on very suspect statistics from the guy who had the office next door to Peter Davis, was all conveniently publicised during HEC’s time as the Minister of Health and used to get rid of the control men had over the healthcare for women. Now we have a bunch of dykes, both in the Ministry and in the labour ward, dictating to women about their choices. Sadly the women and children of New Zealand have to suffer for their ideology. The professionalism and care that nurses brought to labouring women has all but disappeared.
‘The professionalism and care that nurses brought to labouring women has all but disappeared.’
I don’t get it. One moment government doesn’t care and the next moment they care a lot and we should trust them sticking needles in our body.
Friend, I get it, but you need to ease up.
Vaccines work. I support their use as. I don’t support governments threatening parents for not using them. Midwives are poorly trained and they have an ideology of keeping women away from doctors, and women and babies die. The model of care for pregnant women was put in place by politicians. I don’t see any contradiction in supporting good medical practice and not supporting political interference in the healthcare. Simple enough?
Sure is.
That’s my point. Good medical practice should not be dictated by government. Government has ruined healthcare like they ruined the economy. My wife is a medical doctor so I know lots of good professionals but you can’t have bureaucrats nor big farma run healthcare. At the end like you have noticed it’s a deadly combination.
My problem is medicine in the hands of the wrong persons. With today’s technology it can’t be that difficult to weaponize vaccines to create a form of chronic illness or worse.
You think they would if they could create a product with the potential to cure all diseases and illnesses ? We no longer would need Big Pharma nor Big Government.
It was Jenny Shipley who introduced the Lead Maternity Carer Scheme in the 1990s
http://conference.co.nz/files/docs/gp13/1330%20-%20cs7-e%20-%20gp%20obstetricians_%20views%20of%20the%20model%20of%20maternity%20care%20in%20new%20zealand%20-%20dawn%20miller.pdf
I remember her condescending manner towards people’s concerns.
The fact is a midwife will never have the same extensive training a doctor has, and yes doctors can end up having bad outcomes for births too. I don’t understand why women who choose to give birth in a tertiary hospital are so maligned – everything is there in an emergency. If a birth takes place in a birthing unit and something goes wrong then that child may ultimately have a lifelong disability or die because sophisticated help is not at hand. It would appear that midwives noses may be put out of joint if a doctor takes over so their egos would appear to be more important than a well-born child.
“..their egos would appear to be more important than a well-born child.”
Yes indeed.
I’ll bet the midwife vocation is a creation of socialized medicine in New Zealand that was necessary to cut the number of doctors needed to serve the public? In America nearly all births are happen in hospitals with qualified doctors in attendance.
AM I NOT RIGHT
New Zealand your Leftist politicians are literally killing your children.
“New Zealand your Leftist politicians are literally killing your children”
Well, of course – it’s what the left does so well. You don’t think their 150 million dead last century didn’t include kids, surely?
I wonder if the parents had a choice to go with this midwife or to go with a doctor, perhaps in this case they didn’t, but there are lots of starry-eyed nongs out there who choose to go with mid wives and all sorts of risky nonsense because they’ve got some fantasy about being among singing birds and cool flowing breezes in a summer meadow or some such crap.