Obstetrics and neonatal care

IACC and the obstetric and pediatric professions

A primary

function

of the IACC should be to

investigate and become

engage

dialogue with members of professions that

set

standards of care for

pregnant

women, childbirth, and newborn infants.

Dialogue

with family members

concerned over

lifelong care

needs

for people

afflicted with autism

much

appreciated

Opinions of the "lay public"

have

too

often

been

disregarded.

Please note the following

practices that had to be stopped

in the past

(a)

The obstetric profession had to change care for women with threatened

miscarriage following discovery that cancer and infertility occurred in both

female

and male children of women treated with diethylstilbestrol (DES).

(b)

The pediatric profession had to stop the long accepted practice

(from 1945

1961)

of giving all

newborn babies synthetic vitamin K

References:

Palmer JR, Herbst AL, Noller KL, Boggs DA, Troisi R, Titus-Ernstoff L, Hatch EE,
Wise LA, Strohsnitter WC, Hoover RN. Urogenital abnormalities in men exposed to
diethylstilbestrol in utero: a cohort study. Environ Health. 2009 Aug 18;8:37.
Herbst AL. Stilbestrol and vaginal cancer in young women.CA Cancer J Clin. 1972
Sep-Oct;22(5):292-5.
Robertson AF. Reflections on errors in neonatology: I. The "Hands-Off" years, 1920
to 1950. J Perinatol. 2003 Jan;23(1):48-55.

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