Re: [ozmidwifery] Pinnards v's dopplar

[Lieve Huybrechts]

Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] Pinnards v's dopplar

That’s also my way of working. They come to the prenatal visits and they can tell exactly how the baby is positioned. They call me the moment  that breech babys tumble around. That gives them confidence and power.  I have a lot of pinnards and I give each couple a pinard from 20 weeks on and I teach the father how to listen. They make it an event of the day. In one case I forgot my doppler at home during a birth. I listened to the baby with the pinard  and they didn’t find it strange or unsafe at all. They knew that it was perfect.

Warm greetings
Lieve



   On 22-01-2003 00:00, "Sally Westbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Cas,



You point is intereting. I also don’t offer for women to hear the baby. .. It is that process of allowing or teaching women to know their own baby, for them to be the expert. I also ask the women what position the baby is in and how the baby is.. whether the baby has dropped etc etc.. before I feel.. Probably is why at the end of the pregnancy I have women who can be very overdue (I am waiting with 2 overdue women presently) who are utterly confident that the baby is fine and they can wait for the baby to be ready to come out!



Sally Westbury

Homebirth Midwife



"You are a midwife, assisting at someone else's birth. Do good without  show or fuss. Facilitate what is happening rather than what you think ought to be happening. If you must take the lead, lead so that the mother is helped, yet still free and in charge. When the baby is born, the mother will rightly say: "We did it ourselves!"

from The Tao Te Ching