Re: [ozmidwifery] physiological 3rd stage

[Justine Caines]

Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] physiological 3rd stage

Dear Susan and All

As a non-clinician I have kept out of this discussion, although I am very interested.

A midwife friend of mine mentioned that blood loss was not really measured outside the birth unit so the true loss associated with managed 3rd stage is not really known (do you also think this?).  Perhaps this could be a research proposal in your obstetric managed no doubt 99% managed 3rd stage unit!!!

I am unsure of the logistics of it but it’s worth a thought.

I seem to think we get nowhere with the benefits of nature etc (ie natural birth, breastfeeding) so perhaps it is time to broadcast the negatives of the interventions very clearly.  Managed vs physiological 3rd stage would be a great one as so few women understand that the jab is an intervention.

Perhaps the other side of the research could be a homebirth midwives practice (where the majority of 3rd stages are physiological).

I am banking on the benefits of homebirthing for my 4 soon 5.  I need all the help I can get.

On the breastfeeding front, not one ear infection or any sickness in all 4 vs the repeat sickness of  friends with the bottle-fed (but we knew that!).

Kind regards

Justine