----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 5:28
PM
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery]
caseload
Dear Jen - we have just commenced our caseload
practice at Selangor - we have called it the Care In Partnership program,
and are very excited about it. We are a private hospital and have had some
interesting issues to deal with along the way - still are feeling our way
because of the way in which private maternity care is structured, but still
determined to offer women choice in care in the childbearing year. No
doubt we will have a lot of lumps and bumps along the way as we muddle
through, but it's a start!! And we are a committed bunch of midwives,
doctors and managers.
Where there is hope there is
life....keep your faith in women and in midwives.
Warm regards, Lynne
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003
11:02 AM
Subject: [ozmidwifery] caseload
I read Janet's story with tears in my eyes as well, but it's made me
wonder about caseload too.
I'm a Bachelor of Midwifery student & from what we've learned at
uni & from the experiences I've had on clinical placement in
hospitals, if I have any choice in where & how I work when I graduate,
caseload is the only model of care I would consider working in. I
know there are lots of other students who feel similarly.
Could any of you wise midwives or consumers explain why caseload
models are being shut down (Janet's, the Angliss, etc) or not expanded
when they're so popular (the KYM program @ Birralee)? They sound
like they've been successful & we all now that they can be
economically sucessful.
Am I missing something?! :o)
Cheers, Jen
2nd year BMid, Melbourne
Jan Robinson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Janet
I shed a few tears too when I read your
e-mail.
While smiling with happiness for the parents of this healthy
little boy my tears were for YOU when I saw you signing yourself
�finished now as a caseload midwife�.
Aren�t there enough
women around who have experienced the benefits of one-to-one midwifery
care who will get up and fight for continuing this service?
Couldn�t
the caseload midwives get together with the women and form a
branch of the Maternity Coalition and get this mysogynistic act
into the newspapers?
Access the Maternity Coalition�s website now
www.maternitycoalition.org.au and arrange
for some support from them in setting up a group to lobby your state
department of health.
All the best
Jan
Robinson
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