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Originally Posted by brant31  After he was able to stand up straight, the doctor coolly told her that the pills were standard protocol for all and required no consent from her -- as was the circumcision. Mom was furious, and wrecked.
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Unfortunately, the same sort of thing STILL happens in birth. Doctors routinely:
- strip membranes
- break water
- give Pitocin during labor (even after a woman has specifically asked for it to be turned off)
- cut episiotomies
- give "routine" Pitocin in the 3rd stage, which has been linked to difficulty breastfeeding
- perform repair work with inadequate anesthesia and refuse to provide adequate anesthesia (this was a FEMALE doctor too!)
- give bottles of formula to babies who have crib tags that say "no bottles, no formula"
all without obtaining consent...and the doctors don't think they need to get consent. Heck, as I alluded to above, I had a client who asked to have her Pitocin turned off (because her baby kept having REALLY bad decels), and 10 minutes after turning it off, the nurse quietly turned it back on, behind my client's back, without asking consent. I had another client who told her nurse that she didn't want the Pit raised any higher, and the nurse laughed, and proceeded to turn it up anyway. The husband asked the nurse why she had done that when his wife had told her she didn't want it turned up, and the nurse said "I thought she was joking." She did turn it back down. I've had another nurse who told my client that she "couldn't" turn the Pit down because the doctor had ordered it...and rather than argue with the nurse about patient rights, I told the nurse to call the doctor, who "kindly" "allowed" the Pit to be turned off.
