[ozmidwifery] Re: International Midwives Day Dinner
Dear Midwives, We are organising a dinner to celebrate International Midwives Day, 5th May 06 at Eat Your Greens Eugowra, 6.30pm for 7pm. Cost is $30.00 each. Guest Speaker is NUM Forbes, Deb Wilden. If you are interested in coming, please phone the Parkes Maternity Unit: 68611 228 or fax: 68621193. We are hoping for a large area attendance, anyone interested may attend. RSVP this week please. Thankyou, Barbara Stokes Parkes
RE: [ozmidwifery] Re: International Midwives Day Dinner
Sounds lovely, but a bit far to go. Is there anyone in Melbourne who would like a get-to-gether? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Barbara StokesSent: Wednesday, 19 April 2006 5:06 PMTo: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.auSubject: [ozmidwifery] Re: International Midwives Day Dinner Dear Midwives, We are organising a dinner to celebrate International Midwives Day, 5th May 06 at Eat Your Greens Eugowra, 6.30pm for 7pm. Cost is $30.00 each. Guest Speaker is NUM Forbes, Deb Wilden. If you are interested in coming, please phone the Parkes Maternity Unit: 68611 228 or fax: 68621193. We are hoping for a large area attendance, anyone interested may attend. RSVP this week please. Thankyou, Barbara Stokes Parkes
Re: [ozmidwifery] Re: International Midwives Day Dinner
There's always a get together at the Birthing Wisdom centre in Fairfield. http://www.birthingwisdom.com.au - Original Message - From: Ken Ward To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 6:32 PM Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] Re: International Midwives Day Dinner Sounds lovely, but a bit far to go. Is there anyone in Melbourne who would like a get-to-gether? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Barbara StokesSent: Wednesday, 19 April 2006 5:06 PMTo: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.auSubject: [ozmidwifery] Re: International Midwives Day Dinner Dear Midwives, We are organising a dinner to celebrate International Midwives Day, 5th May 06 at Eat Your Greens Eugowra, 6.30pm for 7pm. Cost is $30.00 each. Guest Speaker is NUM Forbes, Deb Wilden. If you are interested in coming, please phone the Parkes Maternity Unit: 68611 228 or fax: 68621193. We are hoping for a large area attendance, anyone interested may attend. RSVP this week please. Thankyou, Barbara Stokes Parkes
Re: [ozmidwifery] yep send on your caseload refs please
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] yep send on your caseload refs please Hi Debbie It may be useful to think about women having choice and that 1-2-1 care is recognised as best practice so perhaps what suits Orange should be of lesser concern! Sorry but I am a little over what suits practitioners and organisations. Women deserve to share their most intimate moment with someone they know and hopefully trust. And we simply cannot gauge what suits women until we offer a full compliment of CHOICE. In solidarity Justine Caines PS: The National Maternity Action Plan available on the Maternity Coalition Website should be useful www.maternitycoalition.org.au
[ozmidwifery] Fw: Opinion: Don't Blame Mothers for C-Section Vogue
Fascinating! FYI, warmly, Carolyn Hastie Vogue Moms who are too posh to push are one factor regularly cited as contributing to record high C-Section rates. Commentators Judy Norsigian and Gene Declercq say this drastically distorts the story. Essay follows promos. Seats are limited. Please make your reservation now for the gala 21 leaders for the 21st Century 2006, Tuesday, May 16, 6 p.m. in New York City's Tavern on the Green. Go to: http://www.womensenews.org/21leaders2006.cfm Women's eNews encourages your comments about our stories and women's issues. Please post to our Letters to the Editors section at http://www.womensenews.org/letters/discus.pl. or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOL subscribers: To view the Commentoon by Ann Telnaes and HTML e-mail, please remember to click on the Show images and enable links in the header of your e-mail. Does someone send you Women's eNews? Please help us grow and get your own free subscription today at www.womensenews.org/join.cfm. Here's today's update: COMMENTARY Don't Blame Mothers for C-Section Vogue By Declercq and Norsigian - WeNews commentators Editor's Note: The following is a commentary. The opinions expressed are those of the author and not necessarily the views of Women's Enews. BOSTON (WOMENSENEWS)--Too posh to push. That catchy phrase originated in 2001 headlines of British tabloids and has been echoing through the news media ever since. It suggests a trend toward an increasing number of medically elective Caesarean sections requested by upper-class mothers. In late March, the National Institutes of Health held a meeting called Maternal Request Caesareans. While dropping the emphasis on posh, the title of the conference and its draft report seem to reinforce the general impression that mothers are fueling the trend toward elective Caesareans, which are at record levels in the United States. Problem: No systematic evidence of this is available. In addition, focusing on maternal request obscures a more complex story concerning changes in obstetrical practice. Although some studies do describe an increase in Caesareans without any medical indication, this may not represent real maternal requests at all. These studies, based on birth certificates or hospital billing records, have no way of documenting whether the surgery was sought by the mother or based on physician advice. Childbirth Connection, a New York-based national nonprofit with whom we have each separately collaborated in the past, has conducted the only representative national studies, Listening to Mothers, that directly survey mothers about their birth experience, including those who had a Caesarean section. The first study was published in 2002, initial findings of the second were completed in March. In the most recent survey carried out in January and February 2006 among 18- to 45-year-old women who gave birth in U.S. hospitals to a single infant last year, only 1 in 252 women (0.4 percent) who had a primary Caesarean section without a medical reason actually chose this option herself. Although there are undoubtedly some women who do seek elective Caesareans, they are hardly enough to increase the number of Caesareans by 400,000 nationally since 1996. Great News Story With Caesarean rates at an all-time high--accounting for 1.2 million surgeries and 29 percent of all births in 2004--reporters and editors are naturally interested in seeking explanations and patient choice makes an attractive news story. Such stories often include human interest elements, such as following one woman's decision to elect a Caesarean. They also involve broader ethical issues, such as whether individuals should have the right to choose elective surgery and, if so, who should pay for it. The news coverage, however, too often gives a skewed impression of who is electing to have a Caesarean. Many stories on maternal request, for instance, feature suburban white professional women, often obstetricians themselves. These stories may be interesting, but they feed an inaccurate stereotype. Mothers with the highest Caesarean rates in the United States--African American women over 35--are rarely featured in such coverage. So if it's not maternal requests, what then is causing the increase in Caesareans? Answer: Primarily changes in obstetrical practice. Long gone are the days when a single obstetrician handled a caseload of women to whom he or she made the extraordinary commitment to attend her birth no matter when that woman went into labor. Now, the overwhelming majority of obstetrical practices are group-based, substantially reducing that individual bond with a mother. In Childbirth Connections' 2002 survey, 19 percent of mothers reported they had never met the person who delivered their babies and another 10 percent indicated they had only briefly met
RE: [ozmidwifery] Re: International Midwives Day Dinner
Title: Message Just for clarification Barbara...what 'greens' were you referring too?? ;o) I love it!!! -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barbara StokesSent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 4:36 PMTo: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.auSubject: [ozmidwifery] Re: International Midwives Day Dinner Dear Midwives, We are organising a dinner to celebrate International Midwives Day, 5th May 06 at “Eat Your Greens” Eugowra, 6.30pm for 7pm. Cost is $30.00 each. Guest Speaker is NUM Forbes, Deb Wilden. If you are interested in coming, please phone the Parkes Maternity Unit: 68611 228 or fax: 68621193. We are hoping for a large area attendance, anyone interested may attend. RSVP this week please. Thankyou, Barbara Stokes Parkes --Internal Virus Database is out-of-date.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/304 - Release Date: 4/7/2006 -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/304 - Release Date: 4/7/2006
[ozmidwifery] My Placenta
... is gone from my freezer :( It must have been thrown out, but I don't remember doing it, and my husband swears he didn't - so it's a mystery! I was going to bury it on Will's first birthday next month, and then get a 'Mother's Love rose from the ABA website to plant in late July, but I can't now. I wanted to do something special on his birthday but I'm stumped for ideas! Perhaps I will just go out and buy the nice pot on the day, and wait for the rose to be delivered in late July. Any ideas for something to remember his birth by - apart from cake!? (sorry it's a bit OT) Jo -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe.
Re: [ozmidwifery] premature urge to push
thats fine if you have time would love you to have a peek at whats been keeping me very busy for 12 years on www,safetsleep.comwould value your feedback on particularly the 'medical facts and testimonials ' rgds miriam - Original Message - From: Vedrana Valčić [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:13 PM Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] premature urge to push Miriam, To another Carolyn, from the mail below. Sorry if I confused you. Vedrana -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of safetsleep international Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 7:40 AM To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] premature urge to push vedrana did you intend to send this to me or another carolyn somewhere else? rgds miriam - Original Message - From: Vedrana Valčić [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 6:50 PM Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] premature urge to push Dear Carolyn, I'd like to copy your mail to one web forum (mainly about pregnancy, birth, childhood) in Croatia. Its address is www.roda.hr/rodaphpBB2. Would that be OK? Warm regards, Vedrana -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of safetsleep international Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 8:12 AM To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] premature urge to push wow...'special lady'in my humble experience there are not many who have grown to grasp this level of intellectual and experiential awareness and intelligence ...i will be saving this email and reading it and the references for some time...thankyou warm regards miram - Original Message - From: Heartlogic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] premature urge to push Hello Kristen, From the literature, uncontrollable urges to push before full dilatation of the woman's cervix and descent of the baby's head are certainly associated with babies who are in a posterior position, that is back of the baby's head, the bone called the occiput, pressing against the woman's sacrum and putting pressure on her bowel 'prematurely'. That is the accepted, physical version of events. Physical interventions to change the baby's position include, but are not limited to: *position changes of all kinds mostly during labour surges, *such as leaning forward, *leaning backward, *opening the ischial spines with various strategies such *as assisting with inwards pressure on the alae of the sacrum; * lifting the trochanters when the woman is squatting (that takes some doing but is a wonderful opener) *lunges with one leg raised on a chair, squatting etc; *the flapping fish (yoga) position which is lying down on the side the baby's back is on, with leg and arm behind, so the person is more on their abdomen - also called the recovery position; lunging as before, but with the woman's body leaning posteriorally into the side the baby is on to reduce space and encourage baby to rotate to the front. *Another excellent strategy is (the midwife or doctor) using the fingers of one hand in the woman's vagina to construct an artificial pelvic floor to help the baby rotate to the front. This is most useful with a greater degree of dilatation as the person needs to have their hand directly on the baby's head to put the counter pressure on (gently and firmly) for increased flexion and rotation of the baby's head. Of course, the woman needs to be informed and agree and be in a position (birth stool is great for this) to enable the midwife/doctor to do this. As we know, we are not merely physical, a bit of material, like a brick or plank of timber, we are a breathing, feeling, moving, social entity. We are more, much more than that which can be cut or fashioned into an article of usefulness. From another point of view, examining our human self, we are an amazing brain and nervous system network, whose function is predominately based on a lifetime collection of learned patterns, concepts and expressions overlaying a genetic intelligence of predetermined processes and capabilites, such as giving birth. Neuroscience. neuropsychology and endocrinology now tells us that emotions (chemicals) are what fires the feeling/vibratory/electrical brain/nervous system into action (which affects/is expressed in the muscular etc reactions/behaviour of the whole body) and the conscious (spiritual) self, that bit of us that thinks in the moment and is untouchable and invisible, is the thinking director of the whole brain/body mind and action, This director is located in the prefrontal cortex of the brain. From my observation and experiences, an uncontrolled urge to push is often associated with thought patterns such as 'wanting it over' and the associated emotional response (through the amygdala) is a release of a
RE: [ozmidwifery] Re: International Midwives Day Dinner
Title: Message Dear Jo, Eugowra is a small village and the former golf club has been transformed into a restaurant/wedding venue etc so the name came from the golfing greens. It is a lovely place, lots of old gum trees and green grass/lawn which impresses those of us on water restrictions! Eugowra is certainly worth a visit. Barbara from Parkes -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Jo Sent: Wednesday, 19 April 2006 10:07 PM To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] Re: International Midwives Day Dinner Just for clarification Barbara...what 'greens' were you referring too?? ;o) I love it!!! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barbara Stokes Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 4:36 PM To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Subject: [ozmidwifery] Re: International Midwives Day Dinner Dear Midwives, We are organising a dinner to celebrate International Midwives Day, 5th May 06 at Eat Your Greens Eugowra, 6.30pm for 7pm. Cost is $30.00 each. Guest Speaker is NUM Forbes, Deb Wilden. If you are interested in coming, please phone the Parkes Maternity Unit: 68611 228 or fax: 68621193. We are hoping for a large area attendance, anyone interested may attend. RSVP this week please. Thankyou, Barbara Stokes Parkes -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/304 - Release Date: 4/7/2006 -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/304 - Release Date: 4/7/2006
RE: [ozmidwifery] My Placenta
Dear Jo, Our local council donates 2 Australian native trees that we hand out to each new mum and our Birth to Kindergarten literacy programme donates a book with advice to mums/dads/family to read to the new baby every day of his/her life. Perhaps you could plant a tree and give your Will a book, and get him a new one each birthday! Hope you have a happy memory of his birth. Regards, Barbara in Parkes -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jo Watson Sent: Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:09 AM To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Subject: [ozmidwifery] My Placenta ... is gone from my freezer :( It must have been thrown out, but I don't remember doing it, and my husband swears he didn't - so it's a mystery! I was going to bury it on Will's first birthday next month, and then get a 'Mother's Love rose from the ABA website to plant in late July, but I can't now. I wanted to do something special on his birthday but I'm stumped for ideas! Perhaps I will just go out and buy the nice pot on the day, and wait for the rose to be delivered in late July. Any ideas for something to remember his birth by - apart from cake!? (sorry it's a bit OT) Jo -- 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] fractured pelvis
No previous CS or pregnancies yet! From: "brendamanning" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.auTo: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.auSubject: Re: [ozmidwifery] fractured pelvisDate: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:58:05 +1000 Doh ! I think I just threw in a red herring !!! Speed reading not always so accurate huh ? With kind regardsBrenda Manning www.themidwife.com.au - Original Message - From: Ken Ward To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 1:20 PM Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] fractured pelvis Why are we worrying about a vbac? Has this woman already had a previous c/s? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Kristin BeckedahlSent: Tuesday, 18 April 2006 9:10 PMTo: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.auSubject: Re: [ozmidwifery] fractured pelvis Yes! My thoughts exactly Brenda! :) From: "brendamanning" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.auTo: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.auSubject: Re: [ozmidwifery] fractured pelvisDate: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:50:43 +1000 Kristin, No never rule a VBAC out, always consider the individual circumstances. It cost nothing to try ! You can always opt out if there are any signs of problems. With kind regardsBrenda Manning www.themidwife.com.au - Original Message - From: Kristin Beckedahl To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 5:53 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery] fractured pelvis What is the likelihood of CS with a woman whose 22 and has a Hx of fracturing her pelvis in 3 places in a car accident? Would a vaginal birth be totally ruled out?-- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit to subscribe or unsubscribe.-- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit to subscribe or unsubscribe. -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit to subscribe or unsubscribe.
Re: [ozmidwifery] fractured pelvis
Brenda, I did send you an email...? Anyway its [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! From: "brendamanning" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.auTo: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.auSubject: Re: [ozmidwifery] fractured pelvisDate: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:13:19 +1000 Kristin, I can't reply off-list to you re the Doula query because I don't have your email address. Would you like to send it or are you over the 'query stage' now ??? With kind regardsBrenda Manning www.themidwife.com.au - Original Message - From: Kristin Beckedahl To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 9:09 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] fractured pelvis Yes! My thoughts exactly Brenda! :) From: "brendamanning" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.auTo: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.auSubject: Re: [ozmidwifery] fractured pelvisDate: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:50:43 +1000 Kristin, No never rule a VBAC out, always consider the individual circumstances. It cost nothing to try ! You can always opt out if there are any signs of problems. With kind regardsBrenda Manning www.themidwife.com.au - Original Message - From: Kristin Beckedahl To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 5:53 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery] fractured pelvis What is the likelihood of CS with a woman whose 22 and has a Hx of fracturing her pelvis in 3 places in a car accident? Would a vaginal birth be totally ruled out?-- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit to subscribe or unsubscribe.-- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit to subscribe or unsubscribe. -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit to subscribe or unsubscribe.
RE: [ozmidwifery] Re: International Midwives Day Dinner
Title: Message Sounds beautifulI thought you were saying 'eat your greens' as in get rid of your green scrubs as midwives not being focused on the operating theatre... boy! No guessing where my minds at!!! :o) Ha Ha Jo -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barbara StokesSent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 9:23 AMTo: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.auSubject: RE: [ozmidwifery] Re: International Midwives Day Dinner Dear Jo, Eugowra is a small village and the former golf club has been transformed into a restaurant/wedding venue etc so the name came from the golfing greens. It is a lovely place, lots of old gum trees and green grass/lawn which impresses those of us on water restrictions! Eugowra is certainly worth a visit. Barbara from Parkes -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean JoSent: Wednesday, 19 April 2006 10:07 PMTo: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.auSubject: RE: [ozmidwifery] Re: International Midwives Day Dinner Just for clarification Barbara...what 'greens' were you referring too?? ;o) I love it!!! -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barbara StokesSent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 4:36 PMTo: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.auSubject: [ozmidwifery] Re: International Midwives Day Dinner Dear Midwives, We are organising a dinner to celebrate International Midwives Day, 5th May 06 at “Eat Your Greens” Eugowra, 6.30pm for 7pm. Cost is $30.00 each. Guest Speaker is NUM Forbes, Deb Wilden. If you are interested in coming, please phone the Parkes Maternity Unit: 68611 228 or fax: 68621193. We are hoping for a large area attendance, anyone interested may attend. RSVP this week please. Thankyou, Barbara Stokes Parkes --Internal Virus Database is out-of-date.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/304 - Release Date: 4/7/2006 --Internal Virus Database is out-of-date.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/304 - Release Date: 4/7/2006 --Internal Virus Database is out-of-date.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/304 - Release Date: 4/7/2006 -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/304 - Release Date: 4/7/2006
