Dear Tania Love to hear more about the care you and Wendy are providing for women I also a midwife and live in the Adelaide Hills.If you have time my phone number is 82782212. thanks Janelle
"Tom, Tania and Sam Smallwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just wanted to share with the list that I attended the most amazing and >special birth last night. �For those of you who don't know me (and that's >probably most, as I'm a bit of a lurker here!) I'm a newly qualified midwife >(May last year), with 2 littlies of my own, and I've been practicing in >partnership with another midwife here in Adelaide since April this year, >attending women planning homebirths mainly in the Adelaide Hills area. > >Enough about me, yesterday morning I got a call from Wendy (the midwife) and >arrived at Jess's house at 6.30am, and after an extremely emotional, hard >work, up and down, lots of walking, lots of sleeping, lots of swinging and >swaying (we nearly resorted to KC and the sunshine band Vicki!), lots of >yelling, lots of beconing this baby into the world kind of labour (where I >think I carried the entire weight of my car in water), Jess had a lovely >baby girl at 1120 last night, and 3 hours later, when the placenta decided >it was good and ready, so were we (and Jess, believe me!). �She shared this >wonderful time with us, her partner and both sets of parents, who waited >quietly down the other end of the house for what must have seemed an >eternity before we gave them the signal that the baby was finally on its >way. > >I've attended 4 births with Wendy, and each one teaches me something new, >something I didn't even know I didn't know - if that makes any sense. (And >there's plenty I don't know!!) It was such a hard and long journey for Jess >yesterday, and it was just such an amazing experience to be with another >midwife who supported me, and the woman, and such a privilege to be there >for such a powerful birth (which they all are, in different ways). > >Enough rambling, I've had a good 3 hours sleep, now to try and convince my 1 >year old that it's time to go back to bed! > >Thanks for listening, > >Tania >x > >-- >This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. >Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe. > __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
