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Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 11:53
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Subject: [ozmidwifery] Fw: Waterbirth,
core of life
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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
