[ozmidwifery] Rally at Camden
Hi, Good coverage of the Camden Rally on the Channel 7 news this evening. Good interviews with parents and midwives and the MC banner got a good run during the story and the previews. Congratulations to everyone involved - got to keep the pressure on these pollies Regards Andrea - Andrea Robertson Birth International * ACE Graphics * Associates in Childbirth Education e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.birthinternational.com -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe.
[ozmidwifery] Interested in Waterbirth Policy
Hi there Wendy, am keen to recieve waterbirth policy please and references. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Deb - Original Message - From: Wendy Taberer To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 8:39 PM Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] Waterbirth Policy Hi Sally, if you give me your e-mail address I will forward you details of our waterbirth policy along with references Wendy From: owner-ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au [mailto:owner-ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au] On Behalf Of Sally WestburySent: 13 January 2005 06:47To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.auSubject: [ozmidwifery] Waterbirth Policy Can people share their waterbirth policy from their units please. Sally Westbury Homebirth Midwife "It takes courage to remain a true advocate for women, challenging authority and sacrificing social and professional acceptance. It takes courage for a woman to choose a caregiver who will truly advocate for and empower her." -Judy Slome Cohain __ NOD32 1.969 (20050112) Information __This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system.http://www.nod32.com__ NOD32 1.969 (20050112) Information __This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system.http://www.nod32.com
Re: [ozmidwifery] Camden Rally
Dear Sonja having been at others I am glad to hear you have already planned a follow up one as too often in the past we have been misled aquieesced? Denise Hynd "Let us support one another, not just in philosophy but in action, for the sake of freedom for all women to choose exactly how and by whom, if by anyone, our bodies will be handled." Linda Hes - Original Message - From: Barry Sonja To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 1:02 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery] Camden Rally Dear all Just to let you know that there was an excellent rally in Camden today to save our maternity unit. Over 300 people attended with hopefully fantastic media coverage. It is amazing how many mothers and babies and pregnant women will march in over 35 degree heat. Look for us on the tele and the Sunday papers. We also hope to have a bigger and better one in a months time if our demands to keep the unit open are not met. Sonja
[ozmidwifery] home water birth in Hungary
Dear All I thought for those who don't get to see this often you may enjoy and be inspired by this birth photo diary (100 photos) but quick to upload even on my bush dial-up connection! If this inspires you to get waterbirth happening or anything else, please consider joining Maternity Coalition and getting active. All we need is a consumer and preferably a midwife in a local area and we will support you to effect change (lots of the hard work has been done, I have a hard drive full of it!!) http://www.nandu.hu/English/Childbirth/Csenge100/csbirth01.htm Enjoy In solidarity Justine Justine Caines National President Maternity Coalition Inc PO Box 105 MERRIWA NSW 2329 Ph: (02) 65482248 Fax: (02)65482902 Mob: 0408 210273 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.maternitycoalition.org.au -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe.
Re: [ozmidwifery] Camden Rally
Well done Sonja! Thinkng of you all from COLD but lovely Holland Geesje Barry Sonja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all Just to let you know that there was an excellent rally in Camden today to save our maternity unit. Over 300 people attended with hopefully fantastic media coverage. It is amazing how many mothers and babies and pregnant women will march in over 35 degree heat. Look for us on the tele and the Sunday papers. We also hope to have a bigger and better one in a months time if our demands to keep the unit open are not met. Sonja -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe.
Re: [ozmidwifery] Camden Rally
Geesje We miss you and your inspiring wisdom! Hope you are having a fabulous time with your family. Have you started work yet. Will try and email you some photos so that you don't forget us! Sonja - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 7:18 AM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Camden Rally Well done Sonja! Thinkng of you all from COLD but lovely Holland Geesje Barry Sonja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all Just to let you know that there was an excellent rally in Camden today to save our maternity unit. Over 300 people attended with hopefully fantastic media coverage. It is amazing how many mothers and babies and pregnant women will march in over 35 degree heat. Look for us on the tele and the Sunday papers. We also hope to have a bigger and better one in a months time if our demands to keep the unit open are not met. Sonja -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe. -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe.
RE: [ozmidwifery] Birth Centre
The birth centre where I work offers midwife care throughout antenatal, intrapartum and post natal. We encourage non-drug use in labour, but do have gas and morphine. These are NEVER offered, and not given on first ask. It is between the midwife the woman and her supports when drugs are used, the vast majority do not even think about it. Nitros does not affect her choice for a water birth, but morphine does, she can labour in water. Iv therapy can be given to rehydrate if necessary, and ceased once a litre has been given. We have research based policies, and are therefore more liberal than delivery suite. eg 48 hours RM, 42 weeks before induction, trans. to DS. No CTGs. Physiological 3rd stage except for previous pph and 'at risk' such as prolonged second stage. We inundate our clients with info, pros and cons, and encourage them to do their own research. They are usually home in 24hrs. We are no longer doing VBACs, due to obest. intervention.. Maureen -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of dianeSent: Saturday, 15 January 2005 12:05 AMTo: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.auSubject: [ozmidwifery] Birth Centre Ok, ive outed myself now, I have been lurking on this list, drawing upon the wisdom of all you beautiful, passionate women, for some time now and I finally have a question. What is the accepted Australian definition of a "Birth Centre"? Is there one? Our midwifery led, low risk unit offers team midwifery and hopefully soon, caseload care. Our brand new unit is linked closely to the maternity ward where we have only postnatal care. We have obstetricians available on call, and they have the ability to perform an emergency c/s if needed. We would love to call our new unit, with it's big baths in all three birthing rooms, a birth centre as this would help to demedicalise the concept and help us bring our midwifery services to the local women and the community. Any thoughts? Di.
Re: [ozmidwifery] home water birth in Hungary
Hi Justine, Andrea (lady having the waterbirth) is a friend of mine and is currently studying a very intensive midwifery program in the US in an effort to be able to return to Hungry and continue on with her inspiring work of fighting for the rights of Hungarian women to be allowed to legally homebirth their babies. She is living on practically nothing with her 2 children in Texas at the moment. I think there may be a link on her site to donate funds for her cause. She is a beautiful inspiring lady and deeply committed to gaining rights for birthing women in her native Hungry. Regards Jayne Dear All I thought for those who don't get to see this often you may enjoy and be inspired by this birth photo diary (100 photos) but quick to upload even on my bush dial-up connection! If this inspires you to get waterbirth happening or anything else, please consider joining Maternity Coalition and getting active. All we need is a consumer and preferably a midwife in a local area and we will support you to effect change (lots of the hard work has been done, I have a hard drive full of it!!) http://www.nandu.hu/English/Childbirth/Csenge100/csbirth01.htm Enjoy In solidarity Justine Justine Caines National President Maternity Coalition Inc PO Box 105 MERRIWA NSW 2329 Ph: (02) 65482248 Fax: (02)65482902 Mob: 0408 210273 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.maternitycoalition.org.au -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe. -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe.
[ozmidwifery] William Mary
Dear Ozmid I hope you have all been enjoying the glimpses of midwifery in William and Mary on Saturday nights on 7. Including the birth centre last night!! I have recorded it when not in - though last week got the concert on tape but came home in time to see Mary's best birth. Mary's idea of her best birth did not come near the one's I experienced on the Community Midwifery Program.. Still it is wonderfull to see a fiesty midwife looking after women and this week she gave it to the doctor with no manners !! I trust we will all let Channel 7 know we want to see more of William Mary !! http://www.seven.com.au/seven/contactus_040201_contactseven Denise Hynd Let us support one another, not just in philosophy but in action, for the sake of freedom for all women to choose exactly how and by whom, if by anyone, our bodies will be handled. - Linda Hes - Original Message - From: Andrea Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 3:40 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Birth Centre Hi Di, Have to hoe in on this one. I have been very concerned about the definition of a Birth Centre for some time. In the UK, where I do tend to get about a bit each year, many hospitals are suddenly sporting Birth Centres. For example, I have a glossy brochure from the Birth Centre at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London (very up market, famous and fashionable) where they proudly state that at their Birth Centre you can have everything except and epidural. In practice this means you could be induced, have pethidine, certainly Entonox (nitrous oxide) and even electronic monitoring in their birth centre. There are water births there of course, and it claims to be midwifery led care, but it makes you wonder. At Guys and St Thomas' Hospital (the home of Florence Nightingale) in London, the Birth Centre' sign outside the main lift actually leads to the regular labour ward and it is the Home from Home Unit that tries to approximate the homelike atmosphere usually associated with birth centres (as long as you like wall to wall bright blue paint). Kings College Hospital in London has done the same thing - a real con for women who think they are going to a birth centre and then find they are having all the usual obstetric care found in big city teaching establishments. In the UK all the birth centres I have heard of offer drugs in labour and other invasive management techniques such as mandatory 15 minutely checks of the fetal heartrate during first stage and after every contraction in 2nd stage (although a NICE guideline, there is no evidence that supports this doctrine). To my mind, a birth centre is run by a select team of midwives (not midwives who are allocated on a needs basis from the regular labour ward) and the aim is to promote midwifery and natural birth. That means no drugs, monitors, drips or interventions. If a problem develops, the woman is transferred to labour ward where she can get the necessary and appropriate help. Water and other non pharmacological comfort aids are encouraged and a family atmosphere prevails, with the woman free to bring whomever she likes to the centre with her. Siblings as well, if desired. This was how the original birth centres operated when they opened in the early 80s. The concept seems to have become diluted over the years, which I think is a shame, for the women and for the midwives. A birth centre offers a midwife the chance to gain confidence in natural labour and birth, which will give her skills she may then decide to use in home settings. These days, midwives are under such pressure from management (euphemistically called risk management) that they feel obliged to carry out unnecessary observations and apply rigid criteria over every aspect of the admission to the program and the following care that they can hardly operate as autonomous practitioners. I remember well that the first birth centre at Crown Street was established as a means of stamping out home births, the thinking being that women would come to a nice cosy birth centre in a hospital if it was pretty enough and not risk a home birth. They were wrong of course! There is the argument that hospitals should be seen as birth centres because that is where babies are born and I can accept that as a valid argument. However, the birth reform movement created this term birth centre (an American idea) as a means of delineating midwifery care and natural birth from the standard hospital approach. I fear we are losing sight of these original goals. Sorry about the rave. I have written about this before, especially in Diary entries, but it keeps cropping up. I will be interested to see what others feed back to the discussion. Andrea At 12:05 AM 15/01/2005, you wrote: Ok, ive outed myself now, I have been lurking on this list, drawing upon the wisdom of all you beautiful, passionate women, for some time now and I finally have a question. What is the accepted
Re: [ozmidwifery] William Mary
Yes, I've loved William Mary have sent a message to 7 as well! Jen --- Denise Hynd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Ozmid I hope you have all been enjoying the glimpses of midwifery in William and Mary on Saturday nights on 7. Including the birth centre last night!! I have recorded it when not in - though last week got the concert on tape but came home in time to see Mary's best birth. Mary's idea of her best birth did not come near the one's I experienced on the Community Midwifery Program.. Still it is wonderfull to see a fiesty midwife looking after women and this week she gave it to the doctor with no manners !! I trust we will all let Channel 7 know we want to see more of William Mary !! http://www.seven.com.au/seven/contactus_040201_contactseven Denise Hynd Let us support one another, not just in philosophy but in action, for the sake of freedom for all women to choose exactly how and by whom, if by anyone, our bodies will be handled. - Linda Hes Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe.
[ozmidwifery] VBACs
Hi all, I was hoping that I could get feed back from any of you about what low risk centres in Australia permit VBACs. Someone told me that there is a birth centre in Sydney that does but I was after some confirmation. If any one works in a Low risk centre and VBAC is still an option there could you please let me know. Thanks Dierdre B.
RE: [ozmidwifery] Triumphant birth for Caroline (Cas) McCullough!!
Yes it is great news about Caroline! I new you could do it! Love and best wishes Dierdre Also have another query. I have a sister in law who ventures from Thailand and she has in her broken English been asking me about a pill that women can take to cleanse their woman areas. She says that she takes about once a month and helps with cleansing after menstral period. She tells me it decreases any odurs that may come from her womanly areas and is desperate to find out how to get it here in Australia. If anyone has any idea what this might be could you please fill me in as I have no idea what to suggest to her. Dierdre B -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marilyn Kleidon Sent: Sunday, 16 January 2005 10:32 AM To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Triumphant birth for Caroline (Cas) McCullough!! fantastic news, congratulations to Cas and her baby, Wayne and Lynne and Vicki. much love marilyn - Original Message - From: Jodie Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 2:21 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery] Triumphant birth for Caroline (Cas) McCullough!! This is a quick note to all Cas's friends in birth reform. At 5.45 this am, Adam Samuel McCullough was roared into this world with the love and perseverence of mum Caroline and dad Wayne at Selangor Private Hospital near Maleny (Qld) with midwives Lynne and Vicki. After a lng pregnancy and a lng pre-labour he only took a rapid 5 hours (or so) to greet his parents. Naturally Cas and Wayne are ecstatic to have achieved a totally natural vaginal birth after two prior caesareans!! Please send your congratulations and support to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please feel free to pass on the news! -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe. -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe. -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe.
RE: [ozmidwifery] VBACs
Dear Deirdre The Birth Centre at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital does definitely accept VBACs and I'm reasonably sure that the Royal Women's Birth Centre does as well. Cheers Jane Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond www.pregnancy.com.au -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Dierdre BowmanSent: Tuesday, 1 January 2002 4:33 AMTo: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.auSubject: [ozmidwifery] VBACs Hi all, I was hoping that I could get feed back from any of you about what low risk centres in Australia permit VBACs. Someone told me that there is a birth centre in Sydney that does but I was after some confirmation. If any one works in a Low risk centre and VBAC is still an option there could you please let me know. Thanks Dierdre B.
