I am so glad to have a man in my life who not only appreciates my quirks but will email me articles from the National Post that would be of definite interest to my quirks.

This past week Colby Cosh, from the National Post, wrote an article on a new development in the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada. I am so glad that news like this is reaching large media outlets in Canada like the National Post. It would be nice if we could get to a point that the medical field no longer approaches childbirth like it’s an illness and approaches it like the natural procedure that it is. There are definitely times when a more medical, hands on approach is necessary but to approach pregnancy and childbirth, on the whole, as an illness is a terrible message to send to mothers everywhere.

Colby Cosh wrote a great and enlightening article and I hope you have the time to read its entirety. If not, here are some of my favorite bits.

On Wednesday, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada (SOGC) changed its clinical guidelines and dropped its recommendation that Caesarean sections should be considered automatic for mothers carrying a single fetus upside-down, in the breech position. This may seem like a quiet bureaucratic change. But it marks the end of one of the most extraordinary controversies in modern medicine — a battle which seemed, less than a decade ago, to have been settled forever in favour of the other side.

…other studies suggested that C-sections led to more maternal complications, and that the two delivery methods were equally safe in places where obstetricians are especially well-trained in “catching” breech babies.

…a generation of obstetricians has been turned loose without training in planned vaginal breech birth — essentially limiting mothers in countries like Canada to C-sections they may not want, and creating more risk for those who, for medical reasons, have no choice but the vaginal route. So the SOGC, the authority on childbirth in the very country that unleashed the TBT, has put its foot down. It intends to not only change the clinical guidelines, but resume training obstetricians in both delivery methods.