Dear Holly Welcome to the world of midwifery!
I hope as a new B Midder you will or have joined Maternity Coalition. The work of volunteer consumers in the last 5 years has been huge. In fact it was a last minute intervention by Maternity Coalition that assisted in achieving insurance for the UTS B Mid course! Check out our website www.maternitycoalition.org.au Without details of the incident it is hard to help. Why not look at the literature re a constant companion in labour and the reduction in pharmacological pain relief ie push the point that without the trust and relationship women are set up to fail. It still astounds me that 99% of Australian women share their most intimate act with strangers!! And midwives are forced to care for women they have often never met! Hodnett (Cochrane Collaboration) did a review of constant companions in labour and birth The National Maternity Action Plan (NMAP) on the Maternity Coalition website will offer some sources re reduction of pain relief from one to one midwifery. Nicky Leap has looked at pain in labour (paper should be found on www.birthinternational.com Will forward other stuff if I find it. Happy studies Justine Justine Caines National President Maternity Coalition Inc PO Box 105 MERRIWA NSW 2329 Ph: (02) 65482248 Fax: (02)65482902 Mob: 0408 210273 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.maternitycoalition.org.au -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
