Re: [ozmidwifery] re Dutch midwifery practice

[Aviva Sheb'a]

Het is een mooie boel, als U weet wat ik bedoel! Hoi, Anke, I lived 9 years in NL, did my Active Birth Training there. Yes, Oz is so far behind and getting behinder in so many ways. Ja, but the weather's warmer! Groetjes, Aviva ----- Original Message ----- From: Anke Dalman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 8:57 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] re Dutch midwifery practice 2/6/2003 9:31:21 AM, Judy Giesaitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, Lieve, Judy, and others Your prayer has been answered before you prayed. I am a dutch midwife and live in Australia for 22 years. All there years I had to fight for any recognition. All I heard from hospital based midwives and doctors was that 'we do it different here' with other words shape up or shift out. (there are some good midwives however that can see beyond their own circle). To be able to work in a hospital I had to 'do my nursing degree' which I see as a total waste of time and money, only to see me as a cheap chance to send to other wards where I have no idea of, because I never became efficient in it and I hate that kind of work. I homebirthed as long as I could and would go back to that kind of work if Australia would bury their pride and listen to the dutch. I did this in holland from 1969 until 1981, then inOZ from 1981 to 1996. Now at 55 I am finished with fighting. Just sit out my time. Now I'm almost finished with my CBE course at ACE Graphics. I just had to do it to stay sane. Even homebirthing has been made more difficult as well. Why after having attended more than 1000+ homebirths should I need to be 'humbled' again and show  the ACMI that I really am an OK midwife. This would NEVER happen in Holland. But then when you are a midwife there you have to be able to be on your own. Here I have seen new finished midwives that are worse than some student midwives that only started 1/2 a year ago on their studies. Just rediculous. Sorry to be so negative about the system, but after all these years I can still not cope with this crazy system, that speaks of multi-skilling, sorry, but I call it MULTI-DE-SKILLING. Love ANKE. Midwife QLD. > > > > > > > > >        -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.   ---   Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.449 / Virus Database: 251 - Release Date: 27/01/03