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Dear Jan,
what did you do in the
situation about the placenta? Where I work at present the doctors get twitchy if
a placenta hasn't birthed within an hour, let alone eight (mind you - labour
ward - tertiary hospital, policy of CCT). Forgive my
ignorance.
Liz.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 6:59 AM
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Birth summary
forms
Hi Sue
Not sure what birth summary forms are, but my Birth
Register is simply an excel spreadsheet with all the details .. name address
age etc. all the demographics. then time membranes ruptured (if less than an
hour before birth ... etc..) number of vaginal examinations (i love entering
zeros!) , length of each stage position for each stage ... time of birth ,
date of birth lots of stuff plus comments for anything interesting like
placentas in situ for eight hours , what we did about it , what type of
sutures were used, etc. The reason for it all being on a spreadsheet is so
that I can statistically analyse it to get the average age of my clients,
average duration of labour, first stage etc. It might be handy one day. I
would have to get m y daughter to help me with the analysis as I am not
brilliant using Excel, ... one of my clients set it up for me many years ago
... It's easy enough to do if you understand Excel. I think Robyn THompson
sets hers up on some similiar type of spreadsheet.. she was going to market it
at one stage. Hilda Bastian also had a brilliant one set up to go underd the
HBA banner. It was the best idea I had ever seen as it also had the facillity
for anylisising social data as well. She was going to get hers to a marketable
stage too but then the homebirth movement seemed to crumble temporarily and it
has been lost to us. It would be a great project for HBA to tackle, but we
could also get the NSWPD people to provide us with a template for their data
sheet with add ons. The USA midwives have one that Maralyn Kleidon would know
about but she is in the states at the moment. Perhaps we could put pressure on
the College to produce a workable one for all homebirth midwives that could be
used to collect research data for their IPM Accreditation program that they
are getting set up. Lots of possibilities
Did you get the papers I sent
you? We need to get the new forms from Centre Link now.
Haven't got mine
yet, they tell me they don't have anymore as they had a printing mishap so I
will have to go up to my local office to get then.
Hope you and Arthur
are both well. Give my love to Penny.
Jan
Jan
Robinson Independent Midwife Practitioner
National Coordinator Australian
Society of Independent Midwives
8 Robin Crescent South Hurstville NSW 2221
Phone/Fax: 02 9546 4350
e-mail address: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
website: www.midwiferyeducation.com.au
On
07/07/2004, at 5:12 PM, Sue Cookson wrote:
Hi all,
Can anyone email me copies of their birth summary
forms please?
Am looking to rewrite my own, but would love some of your
inspiations and insights.
Many thanks,
Sue and Penny
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