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Dear Friends,
Charles and I are delighted to let you know that we have enjoyed the past two weeks of parenting a new, baby boy.  After making us wait for so long, he was particularly welcome!
We birthed him in the UK.  We cannot speak highly enough of the wonderful medical care and attention we received there; each of the decisions that we made was fully informed by their medical expertise and our right to make those decisions was supported...

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Dear Friends,
As you know, Charles, and I sought a judicial review in the High Court of the policy of the HSE and the Minister for Health. This action was taken to establish that the HSE could not apply a blanket policy to all women, especially those women who had...

People keep asking why I took the case? Why don’t I just do what the doctor’s told me? Aren’t the doctor’s always right? Aren’t they always looking out for me and my baby?
To those people I say, what has to happen in our maternity system before you start to question authoritarian opinion?  We have had 1) enforced caesarean sections, 2) a symphysiotomy scandal, 3) a hysterectomy scandal, and 4) sky-rocketing caesarean section...

This pretty much says it all.  Thanks to AIMSI for another well-researched, well-considered posting:
http://nocountryforpregnantwomen.blogspot.ie/2013/08/aimsi-points-to-consider-discussion-of.html
Just to clarify: the number quoted for uterine rupture are absolute risk numbers in the general population, and in no way reflect the actual probability of a rupture occurring in my particular case.  It has been well documented that there have to be...