Tamara Lockwood

Nope. You, as a consultant (🙄) humiliated yourself and exposed your lack of integrity by: Confidently expressing an ignorant opinion on a medical topic well outside your area of expertise and made it appear as if it were a fact. When challenged and corrected by the…

This is peak snowflake People disagree with you and they've spoken up. That's free speech in action You have ~200k followers and can say what you like Stand by your opinion or change your mind Just don't act like a toddler and play the victim when challenged

So yes; he said CDM should not be allowed. No one is misquoting or jumping to conclusions. He said what he said, and it’s a view not based on best practice, current evidence or respect for patient autonomy.

I’m not so sure this one is made up. In the same breath as a midwife said I couldn’t go home as I was at risk of having a brain haemorrhage due to such severe preeclampsia, she then told me she was exhausted & hadn’t had time for a cup of tea… You might die BUT… ☕️

Absolutely. Montgomery was the best thing to happen in pt care for decades and the best thing for pt autonomy in history. And it was a case brought by a woman too

I often Q if the inadequate/non-existent care for women’s pain in O&G/maternity is a by-product of psychology’s patriarchal roots. So much rubbish around pain being rooted in fear/tension/expectations & managing pain with woo. We deserve better. #PsychologyofPain #WomensHealth

Urgent Humanitarian Appeal Mohammed is a child suffering from a congenital brain condition that was initially treated with a shunt. Unfortunately, the shunt became infected, and he now urgently requires treatment with an external ventricular drain (EVD) - a device that is…

Why are Americans obsessed with communism? And yes you can absolutely be against the IRGC and at the same time oppose the Israeli attacks on Iran? Seeing things black and white (IRGC bad so Israel must be good) is naive and simplistic.

feminist jk rowling suggesting that the best way to keep women safe in the bathroom is photographing ones who don’t look feminine enough and posting the photos everywhere

The whole episode has been shocking. I think it was done bc they wanted to see if they could do it - and this poor woman and her baby were considered suitable subjects for experimentation. Experimenting on women - black women in particular - is ofc the foundation of gynaecology

And forgive my skepticism about those on the shop floor. Maternity professionals enthusiastically backed the promotion of "normal" birth, exclusive breastfeeding & brought us giant baths & smelly oils to "facilitate physiology". Evidence based medicine is long overdue.

What would we compare it against? -Access to a newborn nursery -Early supplementation for all -No micromanagement of early moments (ie. no pushing holding the baby in the nude for an hour and callng it "skin to skin" like cuddles are a medical intervention)

Totally agree with all of this, and it's more than reason enough, but I'd add exhausted women rooming-in is not particularly safe for babies either, as some horrendous cases show. Somehow I didn't fall asleep or drop my baby but I couldn't take in information, remember feeds, etc

Can we talk about “rooming in”? You know, that NHS maternity policy where mothers are required to assume 24/7 care of their newborn from the moment of birth, no matter how well (or unwell) they are? The only alternative, we’re told, is SePaRaTiOn - which is, apparently,…

Having someone else care for the baby so a woman who has just had a baby can sleep undisturbed is not a medical intervention and families do not require medical research to justify how they navigate the demands of a new baby.

This sort of fatphobic attitude is one of the huge reasons why fat people have worse healthcare outcomes, by the way.

A seat at the table in the discussion on maternity safety & policy doesn't mean they shouldn't be rigorously challenged or deciding what's best for mothers and babies! Believe me, I'm the first to say mothers are way over advised and people should mind their own business.

Mate we can’t even get decent painkillers for an IUD insertion, nobody is getting a C section for “lifestyle” reasons

@drkeithsiau You do remember this? Someone told you that CDMR was banned in Canada (it absolutely isn’t, BTW) and you said “Most sensible thing I’ve heard all day!” Suggesting you do NOT want people to have the right to choose mode of birth. Or did I misunderstand?

Is @drkeithsiau confused? "Normal" birth has been aggressively promoted in the NHS as health promoting, improving bonding, the microbiome, long term health - all of which is based on a rather fantastical interpretation of not so great scientific evidence. Maternity patients…