Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] Intro & Question
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Hi Justine
This is why NMAP is vital - so we can all have the
option of our own midwife and whatever birthplace we choose - it
simply wasnt financially possible for me at the time.
Pinky
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Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:28
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Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Intro &
Question
I too had a bonus baby -sorry cant
give any advice on birth place but was told all manner of scary things re
risks - a short labour -i was already in a hospital ward - labour stopped
the night before on arrival as they put in an IV bung -just in case. This
time, I laboured quietly in the dark before telling anyone -then asked if I
could go to "delivery" and shower as I was now in labour and had just had a
bowel motion and show, so went into shower and stayed there as they assumed
my labour had just started. I came out when my husband and daughter arrived
and I was in transition - no time for IVs or VEs or anything else - lovely
birth with ten year old watching over the midwife's
shoulder.
Gee Pinky
Isn't this why homebirth is so attractive?
No need to dodge the VE etc. Homebirth is about birth on a woman’s
terms, no complying with protocols that are not based on evidence or fitting
in with organisational needs!!
Hello Carol
Unless your age
creates an obstetric condition, it doesn’t matter! Age itself is not a
condition no matter how much they scare you!! I would think your body is
saying it is doing quite OK by getting pregnant! Good Luck finding a
midwife and remember GP’s are generalists, midwives are experts in normal (and
beautiful birth). Homebirth midwives who are not constrained by the
system see a lot more normal, sad but true.
Trust your instinct and you
will birth beautifully.
Justine Caines
Homebirth Mum to Ruby 3,
Clancy 2 and William 8 months
and co-ordinator of Homebirth
Australia
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