Your first comment is spot on!
The woman is prepared throughout the pregnancy to let her body do the work and follow it’s cues during labour.
Emphasising these points takes place continuously during pregnancy, especially when writing down the birth plans.
That birth you witnessed was the perfect example of a woman achieving her desired outcome through neuro-linguistic programming. (look that one up!)
I’ll email you separately and give you Karen’s address so that you can ask her how she prepared for her birth.
She would be happy to discuss her birth plans with you if she knows you are a midwifery student.
Yours in better births
Jan
PS. From the midwife’s point of view, the secret to woman focused births is CONTINUITY OF CARE and including discussion of the birth plans in EVERY pre-natal visit.
Jan
On 15/8/03 11:53 AM, "Sheena Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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From: Sheena Johnson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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
