redniesday, May 25, 1988 aS ae Volunteer workers have finished the cedar shake roof on the bandshell in George Little Park. With a few finishing touches, the structure will be complete and ready to house live entertainment. The Performing Arts Shell Society, who lobbled and labored hard to see the project through, expect an official opening sometime in June. ' Surgical birthsS — continued from page 7 (VBAC), considering it dangerous and inconvenient. And physicians are slow to change, leaving the education of women about the risk of cesarean versus VBAC to childbirth educators and the VBAC mothers themselves. Yet times are changing and in one center in California and another in Colorado, women have natur- al deliveries after as many as six previous cesareans with no ap- parent problems. Women with previous cesareans are also reported to have given birth to breech babies and twins. Today the major obstetric.and medical organizations such as the American College of Obste- tricians and Gynecologists and the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada have come out in full support and en- couragement of VBAC in an at- tempt to stem the tide of cesareans flooding the conti- ‘nent. These professional bodies are also starting to look at ways to reduce the number of primary cesareans, reliance on technology and un- familiarity with the variations of “normal” labor lead physicians to hurry in to do cesareans. Parents themselves contribute to this by expecting a ‘‘perfect’’ baby every time; this is in part due to women having fewer babies and starting their child- bearing later in life. Older - women are also more likely to. encounter problems in labor, ad- ding to the cesarean rate. Of all the controversy sur- rounding cesareans, none is more emotion-packed than the recent resort to forced cesarean section in women who refuse the ‘operation. In these cases, a judge is called in to rule for or against a cesarean. At stake her is,.as in the abortion debate, a woman’s right to control her own body and whether or not the fetus is considered more im- portant than she is. In a case in Washington, D.C. a woman with terminal cancer was forced into a cesarean against not only her ows wishes but also those of claiming over-— A second young Terrace-ite has recently returned to Terrace from a Canada World Youth ex- ' change. A week ago, Kirsten Mueller talked about India. Last Wednesday, Robert Geier shared his experiences and slides with an audience of almost 50 people at the Terrace ‘Public Library. Robert participated ina six-month exchange between Nova Scotia and Jamaica. by Betty Barton Robert emphasized, “‘It was not a beach program, let me tell you!” He described Canada World Youth as a development education program for young Canadians to learn more about themselves and their country and to learn about a Third World country by living and working in both places. Robert explained that the most difficult things to get-eused to were the cockroaches and the her husband and her parents. The woman was ordered to have the cesarean at 26 weeks gesta- tion because she was thought to have only two more weeks to live, and the attendants expected the fetus to survive outside the womb. The baby died as a result of being born too soon and the family claims that the mother, who died at the time of surgery, might well have fought her third battle. with terminal cancer and won, as she had done twice in the past. However, the horrify- ing thing is that this mother did not die of cancer — she died as a result of complications from her cesarean section. The family is taking the case to court. Studies show that most women who are forced by courts and physicians into unwanted cesareans are poorly educated, low-income women. Women who wish to avoid an unnecessary cesarean are advis- ed to seek a caregiver who has a section rate of around 10 per- cent, to avoid routine use of - technology such as electronic fetal monitoring and other routine medical interventions, to remain mobile and upright in labor, to avoid pharmacologic pain relief if possible (Demerol, Entonox, epidural anesthesia) and to consider the use of train- ed labor companions. Many progressive physicians and nurse-midwives would also ad- vise a woman to stay at home in early labor and to eat and drink lightly as desired. Women must - be prepared to face the realistic pain of labor by educating them- selves in relaxation techniques, positioning, and to be patient and open to each labor being unique. Aside from the very real medical risks from cesarean sec- tion (infection, anesthesia ac- cidents, prematurity and rarely, ‘death, among others) the emo- tional and psychological risks to the mother include depression, low self-esteem, impaired bond- ing and increased risk of child abuse. Unless we recognize that cesarean section is serious business with serious side-effects to some if not many women, by the year 2000, one-half of babies could be delivered by a cut to the abdomen. Marianne Brorup-Weston is a Terrace area representative for the International Childbirth Educators Association and a fre- quent contributor to the Terrace Review. Life in Jamai contrast to tourist heat. When they first arrived in Jamaica, everyone headed for the showers to cool off. When they discovered all the cock- roaches in the shower rooms, they decided atainst it and suf- fered greatly that first day. It all took awhile to get used to. Their first meal in Jamaica was goat’s head soup, a delicacy there, Although the Canadians weren’t really enjoying this unknown commodity, they were polite and tried to drink it. ‘When one of the boys found a goat’s eye in his bowl, they all lost what little appetite they'd had. Robert says the people aren’t starving in the rural areas; “There are lots of tin shacks-in Kingston though.’’ (Kingston is the capital of Jamaica and many rural people congregate there to ‘smake their fortune’’.) The peo- ple generally seemed happy and ‘they were very friendly. Robert’s host family in Santa Cruz, Jamaica were an-upper middle class family. Robert and his counterpart, Clive (a Jamaican participant), lived with the family for the duration of their stay. Robert’s host mother was always trying to feed him. If he wouldn’t take a third helping of something, she thought he was sick. In the first month, he gained 20 pounds. At that point, he started to jog. It was impossible to diet and of- ‘TERRACE DINING image © fend his ‘‘mother’’. ie “The village children were very ~ shy, but-they always ran out to. see him jog by. From a distance, - they would yell, ‘Here comes the white man.”’ Robert showed one slide of the children who " had been brave enough to view him at closer range. Robert said that generally, ‘‘Every time you took a picture, someone was asking for money. They call, thought we were going to go and © sell the pictures to Time magazine.”’ Robert worked as a volunteer in a bakery during his stay in Jamaica. He mixed the dough, formed the loaves, baked the bread in big wood-fired ovens and even delivered the bread to the outlying villages. He says it was a great way to see the island. — His host family didn't have a vehicle, so travel with them was out of the question. 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