Re: [ozmidwifery] Use of ultrasound routinely to check for breech position!!!!!

[Maternity Ward Mareeba Hospital]

The woman has to be pretty strong and fight if she wants a breech birth any place other than a home birth. OB's are all scared and want to do a CS regardless of what type of breech, whether she has had babies before etc etc. Cheers Judy >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/08/2006 5:51:06 pm >>> I'm curious, what are the supposed reasons it is necessary to know whether or not the baby is going to be breech? I thought breech was just another position, but still birth like the rest of it? (Part of me suspects the desire to find out whether a baby is breech is because the medical profession is keen to pathologise yet another element of wimmin's reproductive experiences as "abnormal" and in need of medical attention). My only knowledge about breech does come from Sarah Buckley's book, so I have been coloured by her experience and I don't think she knew her fourth was breech, or that it was seen as a problem? Can OzMid. wimmin enlighten me? Cheers, Sazz suzi and brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There was an article in the SMH last week - sorry don't have ref to researchers name at my fingertips - that indicated that midwives and doctors were on par at missing breeches. and that 1/3 of breeches were missed.  There was a quote from Adelaide Ob Brian Peat saying this evidence supports all women having an  u/s at 36 weeks to check presentation. Then he said midwives were as safe as doctors in determining position.   Suzi ----- Original Message ----- From: Mary Murphy To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:56 AM Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] Use of ultrasound routinely to check for breech position!!!!! Get a trial at the same A/N clinic and see.  Midwives  might be just as bad.  MM   From: owner-ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au [mailto:owner-ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au] On Behalf Of diane Sent: Wednesday, 9 August 2006 5:25 AM To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Use of ultrasound routinely to check for breech position!!!!!   examined in the usual way by a doctor to assess the position of their baby.   Well I wonder if this would be replicated with midwives as the palpators!! Di Sazz Eaton PhD Student & Academic Tutor Melbourne Journal of Politics Editor Department of Political Science University of Melbourne +61 3 8344 9485 http://www.sazz.rfk.id.au http://www.sazziesblog.blogspot.com http://www.linguisticsazziesblog.blogspot.com Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com ***************************************************************** This email, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential and for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). This confidentiality is not waived or lost, if you receive it and you are not the intended recipient(s), or if it is transmitted/ received in error. Any unauthorised use, alteration, disclosure, distribution or review of this email is strictly prohibited. The information contained in this email, including any attachment sent with it, may be subject to a statutory duty of confidentiality if it relates to health service matters. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or if you have received this email in error, you are asked to immediately notify the sender by telephone collect on Australia +61 1800 198 175 or by return email. You should also delete this email, and any copies, from your computer system network and destroy any hard copies produced. If not an intended recipient of this email, you must not copy, distribute or take any action(s) that relies on it; any form of disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this email is also prohibited. Although Queensland Health takes all reasonable steps to ensure this email does not contain malicious software, Queensland Health does not accept responsibility for the consequences if any person's computer inadvertently suffers any disruption to services, loss of information, harm or is infected with a virus, other malicious computer programme or code that may occur as a consequence of receiving this email. Unless stated otherwise, this email represents only the views of the sender and not the views of the Queensland Government. ****************************************************************