[ozmidwifery] Fw: Waterbirth, core of life

[Sheena Johnson]

----- Original Message ----- From: Sheena Johnson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 9:20 PM Subject: Waterbirth, core of life Jan   Just saw a video with a presentation on the core of life program by the midwives at Rosebud. You were the midwife assisting at one of the waterbirth on the video. We watched four births altogether in water. I was amazed to see that in all the births there did not appear to be and active pushing, you know the real screw up the face and puuuuuuuuush. In fact in one of them the uterus just rose up and pushed the baby out, the most amazing and wonderful thing I have seen. Two comments here, one that it is a very good exponent of letting the body do the work and following the cues, not forcing things to happen, but more importantly, I feel that we are educating our youth to consider water birth as one of the options for birthing and maybe bring this type of birthing into the regular choices that women could make in the future. Would welcome some discussion on this.   Sheena Midwifery Student Ballarat Uni