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Helen, I think these
communities are invaluable. For many women they're the only place they receive
support for normal physiological birth or after trauma. There are
oceans of groups, small and large, run by consumers on yahoo
and other email lists. Off the top of my head, I've been to groups
for
uterine rupture
PPH recovery
emergency hysterectomy
support
HBAC
VBAC
and so many for empowered
birth, freebirth, birth after trauma, I can't begin to list them all. Surely
something is wrong in our system if it requires this much attention to recover
from it?
I always hope that
every home birth midwife gives their clients the details of the
Joyous Birth forums (and upcoming website!) because it's one of the best places
for real, genuine, evidence-based birth information in Australia and so many hb
groups have details of their meetings up there. It's also the only home birth
based forum in the world and totally run by consumers.
Not that I'm biassed ;
) But it is!
:
)
J
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