In 2015, A Promise: A Consent To Her Voice To Reign! Birth is a global concern, checking on the statistics of the state of maternal care in our world today. Better birth practices to be our greatest resolution in 2015. We should throw all our energy, national budgets, publicity, activism and politics of good will and draft those policies that promote and propagates the well being of a birthing woman and listen to the voice of each longing for the beauty of birth from the most decorated birth suites in Washington to the low end market darkest dirty clinic in Kawangware slums Nairobi. A birthing woman is a woman and she deserves better care whenever it’s calling with social justice. In 2015, let us give back what is due to Mother Nature; maternal care to come out in every way to be embraced by the women and their immediate families positively, amicably and empower fully. Our joy in care would only remain worth and relevant in celebration when the partaker participate freely and emerge the ultimate winner. To envisage that care that would confront her worst fears and anxiety, purge out distorted information and pull down dysfunctional systems that micro-manage the birthing process for the good towards better birthing outcomes. In 2015, let us accommodate the birthing woman’s voice. That voice to be the wheel that would propel us to serve her, even better. To lean more towards the experiences of the woman and derive from her our roles, our level of involvement, create rooms for acceptable standards of facilitation and in the process let her to lead the way and show us the beauty of birth at its best. Let our highest aspiration be, to purge ignorance in both ways, from the care takers and partakers as well. To commit in making the birthing process simpler and easier but limiting our hands unnecessarily when nature is co-operating and biology is collaborating. To shed off the perception that modernity has come to save the state of maternal care for good but agree with one accord that a greater percentage of it has come in shortchanging the beauty of it to the riskier. The care giver, to echo the voice of the birthing woman in the birth room. In this context, to follow her birth plan from the start till the end. A birthing woman’s needs to have precedence and be honoured with respect, dignity and to let her rights triumph through better care practices. We have a choice to make in 2015 in regard to maternal care, whether to remain true to our Hippocratic Oath of practice; causing no harm during care or do the way much of the negative advances in technology have chained us including the instant commercial world of research and its misleading unpredictable outcomes. In 2015, let us revolutionize the state of maternal care in our world of today and be the beacon of hope of the future by transforming to the affable. Let us be a generation that endeavors to usher a new era, to appreciate that birth is life and without it we are doomed. In 2015, a promise to give a free hand during care whenever possible. Our hands should not jump beyond that they should do. Our eyes to watch keenly in eagle like focus to ensure that we are more of monitors of facilitation (with skills and experiences present) than short-changers of manipulation. To care for women with sobriety, gentleness and compassion. The birthing woman’s human rights be fully recognized in the birth room and be the yardstick of measure to the level of interferences and interventions with an informed consent. Moffat Osoro Founder member FreMo Medical and Birth Centre. Early Version was posted on 17/12/2014.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 05:32:32 +0000
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