Title: Re: Season's Greetings!
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Geetings All! I spent the first hours of Christmas with Lois Wattis,
attending a birth for a first time mother. A baby boy born at 0430hrs in
the water at home. A lovely way to start the day!. Cheers, Mary
M
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Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 4:03
AM
Subject: Re: Season's Greetings!
Dear Jackie and listers
Tis now
Christmas morning and the sun is just rising in eastern Australia while
the local birds are singing in Sydney NSW (I can even hear a duck in
someone’s backyard that so far has escaped the oven) I have had my
“early Chrissie” celebrations with my children and grandchildren
(all currently interstate) and have just made a cup of tea to
start the day well with my mother before we get ready to celebrate with the
rest of our family here in Sydney.
Like Jackie I can’t resist
the early morning contact with my Apple Mac (also pre-Christmas dusted) to see
what the wide world of ozmidwifery tells me and to send greetings
to those I have not seen this year.
To Jackie and all others like her
who work tirelessly on behalf of pregnant women with special needs
I wish peace and happiness and public recognition for what they have
achieved in assisting Australian maternity services adopt a more
sensitive approach.
To my colleagues at the ACMI who
have put in so many hours trying to get the PI insurance issue sorted
out I wish a restful break before returning to the challenge of having a fully
insured membership in the New Year.
To all ASIM members please hang on
in there, the homebirth community needs you. I hope and pray every year that
the first baby born in Australia will be one born into the loving hands of
it’s family at home. Although we get close we always seem to miss those one or
two seconds after midnight. Perhaps homebirth babies prefer to be
born under Christmas trees late on Christmas eve? After the
Christmas break I hope you have the strength to keep on lobbying your
local politicians for insurance solutions at state level and keep working with
the Maternity Coalition campaign at Federal level.
I wish for
IPMs and ALL Australian midwives to have a happily funded, accredited
and insured New Year.... so that all may know the pleasure and satisfaction
passed on to women through continuous care with their own
midwife.
And now I’m off to enjoy that cooled-down Christmas
cuppa with my mother, get the prawns and lobster ready to transport to my
brother and sister-in-law for lots of family togetherness and happiness.
Tomorrow we will be sitting on the cliff-tops wishing the sailors well as they
start their journey to Hobart.
To Jackie and all those in WA on whom
the sun will shortly be rising, have a great day and let’s all wish for Peace
on Earth for the New Year.
Jan Robinson
Too many
Gods;
so
many
creeds,
Too
many
paths
that
wind
and
wind,
When
just the
art
of
being
kind
Is
all the
sad
world
needs...
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