Joy Cocks RN (Div 1) RM CBE IBCLC
BRIGHT Vic 3741
email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sally Cocks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <"Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@krudler.netc.net.au>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 22:41 PM
Subject: Fw: Royal Women's Hospital Family Birth Centre
> PLEASE read, sign, cut and paste to EVERYONE you know, regardless of where
> they live (the issue of choice and quality Maternity care knows no
> boundaries). When the petition reaches 100 signatures, please forward back
> to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and continue to forward the petition on
to
> everyone you know,beginning again at 1.
>
> The completed petitions will be forwarded to the Royal Women's Hospital
and
> local and federal government.
>
> --------------------------------
>
> The Royal Women's Hospital (RWH) in Melbourne is planning to close its
> Family Birth Centre (FBC), allegedly due to "cost ineffectiveness". This
is
> the latest in a long line of government sanctioned birth facility
closures.
> The FBC provides free public care from a small, personal and highly
skilled
> team of Midwifes, for women enjoying a normal pregnancy and who go on to
> experience a normal birth (ie: no major medical complications). The FBC
> provides a "home-like" environment, with large, friendly private rooms
that
> contain double beds for partners to stay in; a deep bath and multiple
> showers for use in labour; expert evidence-based Midwifery care; and a
> million little touches that encourage a positive and low intervention
birth
> experience (CD players and aromatherapy burners in every room for use
during
> labour, birth balls, birth stools, beanbags, floormats, soft lighting for
> the room during labour, a "rooming in" policy for newborns and parents, an
> early discharge program, minimal medical apparatus and intervention during
> labour, a higher Midwife to birthing woman ratio than the labour and
> delivery ward, etc).
>
> The Hospital is now planning to "streamline" their birthing women into
"low
> risk" and "high risk", all in the labour and delivery ward, where there
are
> no private rooms, no homely touches, no double beds, no standard "rooming
> in" of newborns, lower staff to birthing woman ratios, far higher
> interventions, less availability of natural birthing aides such as bath,
> shower, etc.
>
> The planned closure of the FBC is a travesty against informed choice and
> birthing options for women.
>
> Whilst a Hospital Birth Centre is still intrinsically a Hospital
> environment, and there are some similarities between the FBC and the
labour
> ward, the differences are vast, and it is those differences that set apart
> the FBC from the labour ward and necessitate its ongoing existence. It is
> what the FBC represents, and what it is a stepping stone towards (in terms
> of societal acceptance of normal birth and midwifery care based in
evidence)
> that matters - and that is damaged severely by this closure.
>
> The statistics, research and evidence overwhelmingly support Birth Centre
> care for normal ("low risk") pregnancy and birth; yet this highly popular,
> healthy and successful option is now being removed from women's reach, due
> to "cost effectiveness" (which has got to lead to serious concerns in
> respect to ethical conflict of interest; when a low intervention facility
is
> closed because the Hospital is not making enough money from it, does this
> mean the Hospital makes more money from intervening in birth? A logical
> conclusion can only be yes, that is exactly what this closure means. And
> what does this mean for the health and wellbeing of those women who are
> receiving these profitable, but medically unnecessary, interventions?).
>
> If the way we birth our children, and a woman's right to choose how she
> wishes to birth, matters to you (and it should matter to ALL OF US),
please
> add your voice to this cause by signing the petition.
>
> The long range effects of this massive backwards trend are dire. Birthing
> choices are being cut every year, and the marks are being left on the
> vulnerable women and babies in our system.
>
> It is our responsibility to do something - sign and be a "Friend of the
RWH
> Vic FBC"!!
>
> SAVE THE RWH (Vic) FAMILY BIRTH CENTRE!!!
>
> 1. Felicity Dowker, Melbourne, Victoria
>
> 2. Janet Fraser, Melbourne, Victoria
>
> 3. Karen McElroy, Melbourne, Victoria
>
> 4. Jenny Adams, Melbourne, Victoria
>
> 5. Assunta Hunter, Melbourne , Victoria
>
> 6. Rachel Canaway, Melbourne, Victoria
>
> 7. Alison Brookes, Melbourne, Victoria
>
> 8. Jane Yule, Melbourne, Victoria
>
> 9. Rebecca Yule, Melbourne, Victoria
>
> 10. Jema stellato Pledger. Melbourne. VIC
>
> 11. Alice Garner, Melbourne, Victoria
>
> 12. Mairead Hannan, Melbourne, Victoria
>
> 13.edie kurzer, melbourne, australia
>
> 14. Ande Bunbury, Melbourne
>
> 15. Natasha Palich, Melbourne
>
> 16. Bianca Looney, Melbourne VIC
>
> 17. Lucas Chirnside, Melbourne VIC
>
> 18. Steffen Mattaboni, 3011
>
> 19. Barbara Watroba, 3011
>
> 20. Kelly Kirkpatrick Melbourne Vic
>
> 21. Melanie Henkel Footscray VIC 3011
>
> 22. Karen Ingram, Kingsville VIC 3012
>
> 23. Lyn Borghouts, Melbourne
>
> 24. Nicola Loder, Melbourne, VIC
>
> 25. Susan Purdy VIC 3957
>
> 26. Tirese Ballard, Elwood VIC 3184
>
> 27. Tamara Saulwick, Seddon, VIC 3011
>
> 28. Daniel Saulwick, Castlemaine, VIC 3450.
>
> 29. Cath South, Fryerstown, VIC 3451
>
> 30. Catherine Ryan, Vaughan VIC 3451
>
> 31. Helena Read, Castlemaine, Vic 3450
>
> 32 . Caithlin Meave ,Castlemaine , Vic 3450
>
> 33. Margaret Peck, Castlemaine, Vic 3450
>
> 34. Gary King, Northcote, Vic 3070
>
> 35. David Krycer, Caulfield South, Vic, 3070
>
> 36 Sylvie Leber, Footscray, 3011
>
> 37. Michelle Leber, Highett, 3190
>
> 38. Rebecca Louise
>
> 39. Melissa Petrakis, Fitzroy VIC 3065
>
> 40. Helena Spyrou, Northcote VIC 3070
>
> 41. Jen Anderson, Newport VIC 3015
>
> 42. Brenda Kittelty, Coburg VIC 3058
>
> 43. Peter Kittelty, Coburg VIC 3058
>
> 44. Sally Cocks, Bright VIC 3741
>
> 45. Russell Wheaton, Bright VIC 3741
>
46. Joy Cocks, Bright, VIC 3741
>
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