*Birth Trauma Trigger Warning* improvingbirth.org/2014/08/vid/ - this is what our American sisters are working on. The story is horrific and the video is just appalling. There is a clear explanation by Hermine Hayes-Klein of Human Rights in Childbirth why this treatment clearly breaches this womans human rights here: humanrightsinchildbirth/kellys-story/ Episiotomy (the cutting of the vaginal entrance) is now far less often done in the UK after it was shown that it often made tears worse, and natural tears healed better anyway. An episiotomy should be a single, clean cut, not the kind of barbaric hacking shown on the video. See the Royal College of Midwives information here on episiotomy and note their wording on consent: https://rcm.org.uk/news-views-and-analysis/analysis/how-to-perform-an-episiotomy Consent is required for episiotomy, as it would be for any surgical procedure. Women must be given a full explanation of the nature of the procedure and the situations under which its use will be proposed (Carroli and Belizan, 1999). Ideally, this should occur in the antenatal period so that the woman’s consent can be sought and documented at this stage. Further explanation should be given to the woman when a decision to use episiotomy is made to provide reassurance and confirm consent.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 10:23:51 +0000
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