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To my dear sisters in New Zealand

Abstract:

Until the day I die one of the great highlights of my life will always be the wonderful week I spent with the midwives of New Zealand in August 1988 - a time when I was acutely conscious of history being made and brave decisions being taken. The time when the midwives of New Zealand decided to form their own College of Midwives and break from the Nurses Association. A frightening decision, one surrounded by doubts and a wish to be able to see into the future to check out that it was the right decision and not one taken in a moment of madness and impulse. ... Women at this time probably more than at any other in the whole history of womenkind need midwives more than ever before. Why am I suggesting this? I am suggesting this because women in 1989 are at lower obstetric risk than they have ever been and yet they are being subjected to greater and greater levels of intervention.

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medicalisation, normal birth