Want To start A Petition-Any advice?

1 Hi Everyone.

I am very disgusted with some of the horrible practices in childbirth here in the American hospitals. One of many is that barbaric practice of strapping down women during C Sections is some USA hospitals. The woman's arms are strapped to the operating table.

And it seems that many people are wring about what happens during C Sections and if you have a C Section in America or Canada you can expect to have your arms strapped down. But instead of that someone should be advocating and writing about banning this inhuman practice all all US hospitals, as it banned in the UK where I am from.

So I want to start a petition on Change.org

Where many people have petitioned about different things and some have got results. But the only problem is I don't know who to make the petition to.

In the UK if it was a hospital issue the body that regulates it would be The Department Of Health or the British Medical association. But here in the USA because they have different states each with different laws there does not seem to be a body or medical organisation that regulates the hospitals for the whole of the country as there is in the UK.

So any advice please? I think starting a petition is a good starting point but who do I send the petition to? Last edit by Joe V on Feb 7
Coming from a horrible speller. First spell Check your post so people take you seriously. Second. Pick a topic that people will actually sign a petition about. Third. So you do have enough to worry about in the UK or is it utopia?

None of the ladies I work with that had c-sections had any complaint at all about that. Either it is not widespread or see that it is a safety issue I guess.

Quote from BettyUKI am very disgusted with some of the horrible pratices in childbirth here in the American hospitals. One of many is that barbaric practise of strapping down women during C Sections is some USA hospitals. The woman's arms are strapped to the operating table.

If I'm understanding you correctly, you're describing a practice in which everyone who is having surgery has their arms strapped down in a posiiton perpendicular to the body? If so....it's not just for C-sections, it's for all surgeries in which a patient receives anesthesia/conscious sedation and may inadvertently swat, scratch, hit, or flail an arm.....potentially interfering with the surgery and quite possibly contaminating a sterile field. It's a safety measure, so.......not sure what the trouble is? I haven't heard of a c-section where NO anesthesia was used, but conscious sedation is common (and, consequently, the need to protect the patient and the participants).I say if restraining an arm is going to keep the drugged-up patient from doing damage....it's a good thing.

Quote from BettyUKHi Everyone.I am very disgusted with some of the horrible pratices in childbirth here in the American hospitals. One of many is that barbaric practise of strapping down women during C Sections is some USA hospitals. The woman's arms are strapped to the operating table.And it seems that many people are wring about what hapens during C Sections and if you have a C Section in America or Canada you can expect to have your arms strapped down. But instead of that someone should be advocating and writing about banning this inhuman practise all all US hospitals, as it banned in the UK where I am from.So I want to start a petition on Change.orgWhere many people have petionioned about different things and some have got results. But the only problem is I don't know who to make the petion to.In the UK if it was a hospital issue the body that regulates it would be The Department Of Health or the British Medical assosiation. But here in the USA because they have different states each with different laws there does not seem to be a body or medical organisation that regulates the hospitals for the whole of the country as there is in the UK.So any advice please? I think strating a petions is a good starting point but who do I send the petinion to?

Not going to happen. A petition needs to be more specific. I've seen petitions on change.org in regards to having gas and air available at a SPECIFIC hospital. To get a maternity policy changed nationwide takes a hell of a lot of support and money. So first you'd need to find a whole lot of mothers that feel like you do, and perhaps possibly experienced it.... Whether you will find that, I doubt it. There are so many MORE IMPORTANT and relevant aspects of US maternity care that should be addressed, like the choice to have a VBAC or the ability to have a medical providers at your homebirth legally.So to me this is not a request that would get alot of support.

What does FYI, CMS stand for?

Well these are the people I am thinking of making it out to the following:The President of the United StatesThe U.S. SenateThe U.S. House of RepresentativesUnited States CongressLETTER TOAttorney General Kamala HarrisUNITED STATES SENATE, OBAMAUnited States Department of Health and Human Services And, FYI, CMS Though I don'r even know what half of those organisations are> As they don't have health trusts or an NHS in American it's a different system, different in each state so maybe run by different bodies. unlike in England where the department of health the BMMA (british Medical Association and some time the government) regulates all the NHS hospitals in the UK, and I think the private ones as well.

Oh and one poster said on my other thread that they restrain you in the ICU by tying your wists to the bed.Well I found out they don't do it here in the UK, unless the person is so mentally incompetent and only in very exceptional cases.See this:BBC Radio 4 - Inside the Ethics Committee, Series 8, Restraining Patients in Intensive Care

Quote from BettyUKWell these are the people I am thinking of making it out to the following:The President of the United StatesThe U.S. SenateThe U.S. House of RepresentativesUnited States CongressLETTER TOAttorney General Kamala HarrisUNITED STATES SENATE, OBAMAUnited States Department of Health and Human Services And, FYI, CMS Though I don'r even know what half of those organisations are>.....

Quote from BettyUKOh and one poster said on my other thread that they restrain you in the ICU by tying your wists to the bed.Well I found out they don't do it here in the UK, unless the person is so mentally incompetent and only in very exceptional cases.See this:BBC Radio 4 - Inside the Ethics Committee, Series 8, Restraining Patients in Intensive Care

I'm going to start a petition to stop patients from having to wear arm bands. It's barbaric to strap plastic pieces around patient's limbs that demote them to no more than numbers.