You can now submit screencaps!
Yes, you can now submit your midwifery madness in the form of a screencap (screen capture, or print-screen). This is handy for capturing the madness on facebook and forums (that are often deleted once someone realises just how mad they really sound).
Just click on the Submit link and select “Submit a Photo” (if you want to submit text, select “Submit a Quote”).
The usual rules apply.
- If possible, include a URL where we can see the quote in action.
- Attribute the quote to a person (with their role, e.g. “midwife”, “childbirth educator”) or some contextual info e.g. “lay midwife to a mom with gestational diabetes”.
- Screenshots *may* be edited to blank out the names and faces of the innocent (you can guarantee speedy publication by doing this bit yourself!)
- All submissions are private and your email address is not stored on Tumblr.
Elizabeth McKeown, Author of the terribly egocentric In Search of the Perfect Birth
Elizabeth, not content with quietly enjoying her own journey into madness and unassisted childbirth, compels others to follow her by posting ridiculous nonsense on her vanity facebook page.
The little bit of WTF I want you to note is the phrase “Heavy green meconium” followed by “(normal birth)”. Its been said before, but here goes HEAVY GREEN MECONIUM IS A PRETTY BIG SIGN THAT SHIT AIN’T NORMAL NOMORE.
Carla Hartley, lay midwife, on midwifery education, responding to us quoting her here.
I can’t go past the comment supplied by Mrs K here: “that would be as soon as labour started”.
Carla Hartley, lay midwife, on midwifery education, responding to us quoting her here.
Yes Carla yes! Midwives SHOULD have a comprehensive education. And yet as a rule they do not have a comprehensive education. In the original quote, Carla was saying midwives don’t need to know “algebra, composition, chemistry, pharmacology”. So, which is it - comprehensive or selective and exclusive of basic science? Certainly midwifery education doesn’t include basic logic.
Lay midwife says to a new mom, just out of recovery from an emergency c-section, who almost lost her baby after said midwife did not transfer at the first sign of an emergency.
Sounds like a classic ‘blame the victim’ but with a twist of magical thinking and fetus mind reading. Midwifery GOLD.
(Submitted by E)
Christy, a blogging SAHM who is passionate about breastfeeding, cloth diapers and natural childbirth. She blogs and facebooks as Pure!otherhood, and she knows whats best. Oh, what qualifications!
It’s interesting how modern medicine is again to blame for premature fetal demise. In the good ole days we’d have just called it a miscarriage and got along with things. But geez Louise, today all them fancy doctors are getting up and calling it ‘premature labour’ and thinking they can do something to save the baby. Well darn.
My CPM, who had just cut the tight nuchal cord of my baby, whose head was currently hanging out of my body. Thankfully, at least I understood that every second I waited for the next contraction was a second that my kid was not receiving oxygen. I proceeded to completely ignore her and bulleted him out of my body with every ounce of strength I had left.
(Submitted by H)
