Re: [ozmidwifery] Goodbye

[diane]

Sadie, Many of us would miss your valuable experience. To question routine policies is a wonderful and reasonable thing to do, To crucify someone who has to work within the limitations of such as system is unforgivable. Midwives, can we please be respectful when talking to one another, just cause someone has to toe the policy line doesnt mean they are less of a midwife. These are the midwives who make birthing tolerable in the scary public and private sector. I had to transfer out a multip at 40+4 , just because she had light meconium last night. I could argue it till the cows come home and end up losing my job, then where would the majority of the women be who have wonderful peaceful births in my unit. We do what we can within limitations, changing the world one birth at a time. Respectfully, Di ----- Original Message ----- From: Sadie To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 9:16 AM Subject: [ozmidwifery] Goodbye The time has come for me to leave the ozmidwifery mailing list. I have been an active member for 7 years and have made some fabulous friends and have shared the views, advice & friendship of some incredible women who are as passionate about midwifery as myself.  Unfortunately the criticism and 'back-biting' constantly being hurled by some members of this list towards their colleagues has become unacceptable to me - I have enough to contend with on a daily basis at work, without continuing to fight the battle on my own computer in my home. I choose to work in a high-risk hospital environment because these women also deserve good midwifery care, I need to pick my battles carefully. There are far more important issues for me, in my circumstances, than trying to make a stand against a policy regarding blood gases, that is firmly entrenched.  Seems to me that if we cannot nuture our colleagues - how on earth can we nuture the women we care for? As midwives we are all different, working in different environments but surely with the one aim? To emotionally and spiritually walk alongside women of all ages, races, classes and social status, as they travel the childbirth path. This holds the primary place in my midwifery agenda.   See ya, Sadie     "Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart."