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17/2/2002 00:35
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Ilana Shemesh, natural midwifeדs
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your accusations about the professionalism and integrety of my practice is very hurtful and unbased
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Dear 0000,
Whoever you are, I assume you are one of my sister midwives that works in a hospital, and that you don't even know me personally. I would be happy to sit with you and discuss your statements about my taking too many risks. I pride myself on my safety in midwifery, and my excellent statistics are proof. Not everything you hear about me, through the hospital grapevine from all my "friends in white" are truths. I have heard amazing distortions of the facts when I have intentionally transferred patients in need of hospital care, when it was the right and safe thing to do. It is hard to be on the front lines all the time and to be under scrutiny by your colleuges who search each transfer for a way to show that homebirth and Ilana Shemesh are dangerous. Women have told me about interrogations by staff to try to put some blame on me. Why can't we all just work together and try to make birth as safe as possible for mother and baby, and as humane and empowering as possible for women. You referred to a complication in the past that made me decide not to do homebirths anymore. First of all, may I say that this was a hospital birth, where a woman lost a lot of blood after birth, for no reason that could be foreseen. Sure, it frightened me. Watching a woman go into cardiac arrest from an epidural in a hospital birth also really frightened me, and I never wanted to see another epidural again. But this is normal, and when you have some time off to heal from the trauma you can put things in perspective and say: we are not gods, and life is full of potential risks and we just have to do the best we can. It is just sad that there are so many midwives and doctors wh;o are waiting for something to happen so they can say "I told you so". Sometimes I don't have the strength to deal with all these politics, but the satisfaction of knowing that I have helped one more women to feel empowered by her birth in her way keeps me going. As far as legalities are concerned, it would be wise for you to refrain from interpretations of the law that you are not an expert at. Licensed midwives can birth women at home, whether it's their homes, their mother's home, or in a hotel room. Many women birth in my home if they live too far away from hospital, or on the fourth floor with no elevator, or if they don't have privacy from neighbors. I am happy to help by offering them my home. This still isn't Afganistan, and women have a right to choose where they can birth and with whom.
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