RE: [ozmidwifery] Birth Attendant / Doula - Hunter Valley Area

[Mary Murphy]

Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] Birth Attendant / Doula - Hunter Valley Area

This was a very interesting reference.  I agree with your premise that women take in what they want and discard what doesn’t fit.  This woman was so busy at work, shuttling between states at least 4 times that I know of and moving house in the last 4 weeks, that the opportunity for continuity of caregiver was lost, while available with the program. Needless to say with her life being all upside down, so is the baby. Breech and likely to stay that way.  So… another lot of education required and decisions to be made. Re twins in hospital. I recently attended a lovely multip twin birth at our large tertiary hospital.  Twin 1 healthy, twin 2 fatal malformation.  The woman had a very quick labour after 2 previous very long labours at home. She was on a mattress on the floor, leaning on an arm chair.  The staff were very sensitive and facilitated her catching her babies. With a break in between twins a quick scan was done to ascertain position of 2nd twin by senior Ob, and the woman went on to catch baby 2. with the help of the hosp midwife.   It was really lovely and peaceful, sad and joyful all at once.  It can be done, but the mother has to be determined and also flexible, sensitive to the hospital needs and be helped to negotiate them. Give a little to reap a lot.  Cheers, MM, Some people are ignorant no matter what birth education they have had. A couple I spoke to who were doing one of Rhea Demspey’s fantastic pain workshops were luckily in the WA program for homebirth and are having a waterbirth with a you-beaut pool – they had a month or two to go. During a break, they asked me how the baby breathes under the water and other basic questions they should be well aware of at this stage of their journey. So you can give them the right classes to go to, the right information etc but what they choose to learn and take in is up to them