Thanks Soo.
Barbara, I am trying so hard to put mother and baby at the centre of a
physiology which talks of the fetus as the Passenger and ignores the
mother as mere container of the Powers, where the uniquely 'bonkers'
human shape of the Passage is practically ignored by birth practices
which put a mother on her back so she can be monitored electronically
for the benefit of the lawyers (or those paying the insurance premiums)
Those who know me know that I am passionate about freedom of movement
for the mother and the biggest barrier to this is the requirement for
CTG in hospitals. I'm hearing anecdotally that it doesn't work in
'alternative' positions. We need some research to see whether this is
indeed the case.
If we were to show that external tocography was technically inadequate,
we might be able to go some way towards reclaiming birth for women and
midwives by lobbying for contraction transducers which measure muscle
activity instead of abdominal stretch.
I am outside any academic institution and haven't managed even to find a
place to investigate the central thesis of fetal positioning in labour
but I suppose I am aiming at the moon and should aim a bit lower. Some
of the people on this list could perhaps do some research into maternal
position and CTG. (along the lines of Mendez-Bauer,
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1185484 but using CTG instead of
internal pressure balloon)
Is anyone interested?
regards
Maragret
On 11/04/2019 11:02, Soo Downe wrote:
> yes, absolutely we need to understand birth physiology (and the interrelated psychology/immunology/neurology/anatomy and dynamic interrelationship between mother and baby in labour, and the impact of environment on this, and etc and etc!!. Maybe the first step is to bring it all together, including the reviews done by Ibone Olza and Kirstin Ulvas Moberg recently, and the work of Sarah Buckley, and of you Margaret, and so many more.
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> All the best
>
> Soo
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