male midwife

Once again the hegemony of ignorance and sound bites of Corporate press prevail. Serves me right for reading the herald sun. I think we could perhaps focus on the fact that Denis Walsh is a Doctor of philosophy as well as a MALE Midwife, and from the viewpoint of one who passionate about the meaning of birth, suggest, we need a new kind of feminist cultural thought that is willing to look birth straight in the face with intelligence and a lack of fear and see it for what it really is. If it were possible to discuss the serious denial of the authoritative and powerful experience of giving birth to your child or dare to state their might be something purpose in the truly undisturbed glory that can be unmedicalised childbirth (without being marginalised and seen as unfeminist) i might've seconded the motion to have a serious look at the routine encouragement of analgesia in childbirth(as suggested by Denis) and responded to the Herald sun, Live news and BBCnews. As it is there is a quicklink to the diverse opinions of tracey spicer . I feel confident in the efforts of a woman who could be a modern pin up feminist, middle class, white, educated: to imagine she has access to resources to educate herself, but as a midwifery student and someone who is mildly obsessed with the culture and philosophy surrounding birth, she lost me on her reference to her supportive husband who was watching the rugby through her attempt to give birth naturally."The scene in the birthing suite was a sight to behold - hubby watching the State of Origin while I did yoga moves accompanied by classical music and the gentle waft of lavender aromatherapy oil. After six hours of downward dogs (and a convincing win to the Maroons) I was only 1cm dilated." read on. If this coverage of opinion of the influential feminist pin-up is not enough we also have the inspirational words of Holly Byrnes who is yet another voice in the vast sea of simplistic reflections on childbirth which are mostly self informed, as apposed to researched in any way, shape or form. There are whole cultures that don't have any incidence of post natal depression or troubles breast feeding, why? And why are these women in the media, such as Holly and Tracey reaffirming the pernicious culture notion (in the modern west) that women's body's are deficient and must be managed with great caution? At least there is some opinion out there that seems to scratch a little deeper and is even capable of cross disciplining=feminism & philosophy. Denis Walsh has most likely facilitated a thousand acts of integrious kindness to birthing women but he becomes the happy joke of tabloid media and is basically told to shut up for being a man. The female obstetrician (Maggie Blott) he debates with comes across as kind and educated & the wholesale abuse of women's bodies due to an unintelligent maternity system and a conniving media continues.