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6 Part Nov. 5, 1978 Eos Axtflctcfl tSime Hospitals Split Over 'Fathers' Issue tility. When I finally got pregnant and knew I'd have to have a C-section, we went to Sandra Steffes' class, which really opened our eyes to our rights. Dr, Dignam said he'd be in favor of Donald staying with me, but he'd have to get permission from the department. Evidently there were five other doctors who had similar patient requests in this meeting and junior faculty had been letting fathers in all along.

William Dignam is chief of staff, and we had to have his official sanction. We figured UCLA was ready for it, so we just fell apart when Dr. Dignam came back with a no." Donald Fields recalls that, "Dr. Dignam was pretty pained and upset when he had to bring back the bad news. He had been so receptive to our wishes and felt they were appropriate.

He knew how important it was for me to be there but all he could do was give us a list of sympathetic doctors. In effect he was telling us to go elsewhere, away from him, when we'd gotten so attached to him. I can't de-Please Turn to Page 7, Col. 1 time it should be up to the obstetrician and anesthetist. But while I'm pretty open to new aspects of medicine, there are some people living in the 16th century who Just don't go for this at all." Kristina and Donald Fields are another couple who lobbied to stay together for a cesarean and are bitter about the outcome.

"I'm extremely angry at the condescending way they responded to our desires about our birth," says Fields, a 34-year-old phynicist with Hughes. "They have been totally inflexible. They came up with some ridiculous, humiliating compromise that I could stand in the doorway. It's so pathetically childish, as if they're saying, 'If you don't play by my rules on the football field then I'm taking my ball and going home and you won't be able to play. So instead we had to leave a doctor who mattered a great deal to us and go to another hospital to get what we feel entitled to." Kristina Fields is 33 and went through four years of infertility before getting pregnant.

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The Beaumonts knew that this parent-infant bonding was sacrificed in a traditional C-section. Request May Have Backfired "There are people out there less able to fight than I am," Dr. Colleen Beaumont points out. "I'm educated, articulate, as a professional I know how bureaucracies work, and I've had a cesarean before so I know what to fight for. Also at 34 I'm older than some mothers-if I were 24 I doubt I'd know how to keep the system from pushing us around." The Beaumonts feel now that their straightforward request may have backfired.

"Our intention was to have UCLA set guidelines so that fathers would be encouraged to participate," Hunter Beaumont explains, "but our attempt to make a direct demand rather than stay together surreptitiously has only served to make UCLA dig in its heels harder than before." Hospital Not Close-Minded Although the Beaumonts were angry and disappointed with UCLA's attitude, interviews with policy -makers there indicated that the hospital is not as close-minded as the Beaumonts found it. Dr. Richard Bashore, said, "We're not dogmatically, irreversibly opposed, but we just don't have enough concrete information about how such programs have worked at other hospitals to make an intelligent decision for UCLA. We can see the reason for the request and can sympathize with the parents-we're most interested in being in tune with peoples' desires. We are willing to adapt to what people want and we reexamine policies all the time, but we're waiting for published statistical information from other institutions so we can weigh the risks and benefits.

There is no doubt in my mind that it's desirable for a father to see his baby born, whether vaginally or by cesarean. But it is the general consensus of the hospital divisions that would be affected that this policy is not in the best interests of all our patients at this time." Paula and Stephen Christensen of San Pedro are among the couples who've stayed together clandestinely at UCLA, and did find an "underground" movement supporting them. It was a first baby for Ms. Christensen, 28, who is director of child development at Harbor College. Her en thusiasm remains strong even though it has been several months since the cesarean delivery.

"It would have been horrible if Steve had missed this experience, for both our sakes. He gave me a running description of the birth so I got to see it through his eyes: 'Oh, I see a foot, I see a leg, there's a butt, it's a little-boy I must have asked him to describe it to me all over again a hundred times since then. I know other couples haven't been as lucky as us but we really got off to the right start as a new family. Dr. Payne was just wonderful-he said he was in favor of us staying together and thought it was great." Look at Individual Situations Dr.

Brownell Payne is a resident in anesthesia at UCLA with two years of pediatric training at Los Angeles Chil-drens Hospital. "I've had the opportunity to do three C-sections with the father present at UCLA and it's been great. I think it helps the emotional status of the woman and I think families should be together for birth. However, I think you have to look at individual situations and each Hustamante ANTIQUES Show and Sale November 10, 11, 12 Shop the elegance of eras past: visit Oriental hazaars, explore Paris shops, Itrowse London galleries, all in these 90 roller-lions of fine, rare antiques. Santa Monica Civic Aud.

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