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Define irony, in this case it really is irony.

ed629

ed629

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This kind of backfired, in a pretty bad way and may actually have hurt her cause more than helped it.

An Australian woman who lobbied for more support for home births has died after delivering her baby daughter at home.

The coroner will investigate the death of Caroline Lovell, who passed away in a hospital last Tuesday.
The 36-year-old, who had a planned home birth, was taken to Austin Hospital in Melbourne's northeast by ambulance on Monday morning.

It was believed private midwives assisted with the birth of her second child. Lovell was a passionate home-birthing mother who had made a submission to the federal government in relation to the Inquiry into Health Legislation Amendment (Midwives and Nurse Practitioners) Bill 2009.

She spoke out about the need to ensure that midwives who do home births have funding and indemnity.
Dozens of tributes for Lovell, who is survived by her husband Nick and daughters Lulu and Zahra, were posted online.

A spokeswoman for Midwives in Private Practice said it was the first time she has heard of a maternal death following a home birth in her 15 years' experience working as a midwife.


http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/01/31/woman-who-lobbied-for-home-births-dies-after-delivering-daughter/?intcmp=obnetwork
 
She went into cardiac arrest after the birth and died, I think, 24 hours after being taken to hospital. No coroners report or any official explanation yet. Without any more information it can't be said whether she would have died if she had a hospital birth. It's not irony, it's just a very sad story. People die in labor and post labor in hospitals too, just doesn't make the news.
 
Yeah, this is just incredibly sad. Poor little baby girl, and the rest of the family. :(
 
Certainly not funny at all. If you get a laugh out of that, something seriously wrong with you.

Details aren't all there, hard to say whether hospital would have helped or not. I'd have to guess that it would have been helpful, and able to react immediately rather than after the damage had been done, but don't have all the facts.

As for the irony part, will admit that it DOES have a bit of that "lobbied against seat belts, died after going through the windshield of a car" sort of vibe to it, and can't really help the cause she was championing. Like Atkins dying basically of complications from the Atkins diet...
 
^Nor do I. Ironic doesn't necessarily only refer to ironic humor; it can also refer to tragic irony, as well.
 
Scout101 said:
Certainly not funny at all. If you get a laugh out of that, something seriously wrong with you.

Details aren't all there, hard to say whether hospital would have helped or not. I'd have to guess that it would have been helpful, and able to react immediately rather than after the damage had been done, but don't have all the facts.

As for the irony part, will admit that it DOES have a bit of that "lobbied against seat belts, died after going through the windshield of a car" sort of vibe to it, and can't really help the cause she was championing. Like Atkins dying basically of complications from the Atkins diet...
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I agree with everything you said, except...Atkins died of head trauma caused by slipping on ice after a snow storm in NY.
He was in his 70s. I doubt the fall was diet related.
Recently BBC published an interesting article showing that, statistically, for the 2nd child, home births are just as safe as hospital births. Sounds like this is just a very, very sad, very unfortunate case.
 
ed629 said:
auntiehill said:
. . . Ironic doesn't necessarily only refer to ironic humor; it can also refer to tragic irony, as well.
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What she said... irony can go both ways.
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Yes, “ironic” doesn’t necessarily mean “funny.” Irony can be humorous or it can be tragic. Or it can just be ironic.

thestrangequark said:
Recently BBC published an interesting article showing that, statistically, for the 2nd child, home births are just as safe as hospital births. Sounds like this is just a very, very sad, very unfortunate case.
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Indeed, the “medicalization” of childbirth is a very recent phenomenon, historically speaking. For thousands of years, most women gave birth at home. Hospital births didn’t become common until the 1920s.
 
scotpens said:
Indeed, the “medicalization” of childbirth is a very recent phenomenon, historically speaking. For thousands of years, most women gave birth at home. Hospital births didn’t become common until the 1920s.
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Although, to be fair, childbirth is far safer today than it was 100 years ago.
 
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