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Helping out the media

Today I have spent some hours reviewing an article on Pain Relief for labour that is intended for a Pregnancy edition of Cosmopolitan in October. I was pleased to have been asked to check this before it went to print because it had a number of inaccuracies and some vital information had been omitted.

I asked the journalist where she had obtained her material and she said that it has mostly come from the Internet. This would have accounted for some of the errors - drugs not used in Australia, procedures no longer carried out here and details that were not relevant.

I avoided getting on one of my many soapboxes (there were several that would have been appropriate!) and just tried to correct mistakes and clarify various points. I did add a whole thread on keeping mobile and upright and I did change the “Breathing and Relaxation” to plain “Relaxation” with the emphasis on support and environment. Endorphins were mentioned several times by the time I finished too.

It took me several hours (all unpaid, of course) and it will be interesting to see what they do with it. I don’t think the journalist has given birth herself. If she had, I suspect she would have been a lot more positive about the various drugs that were on the list (particularly epidurals) as so often happens with these kinds of stories. I sometimes think that media articles on birth should be written by men - at least they don’t carry so much personal baggage that can get in the way of the truth. Anyway, let’s see what Cosmo manage to tell women in their October issue.

Posted by andrea at July 17, 2003 06:05 PM

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