Re: [ozmidwifery] triplet birth

2005-07-28 Thread wendy hoey 



Thanks Brenda and Judy,
  

   The Mum I looked after 
was Thai, spoke very little englishand had shared care with a lovely GP 
ie. came to the hospital system late. I wondered how many of the "risks" she had 
taken onboard with the communication problem. She was a multi and when she came 
in it was in "business like" late labour, it stuck in my mind because I sensed 
she was only thinking about birthing when the c/s train hit hence why it was so 
stressful. Thanks for the reminder it can happen!

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  brendamanning 
  To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au 
  
  Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 10:54 
  AM
  Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] triplet 
  birth
  
  I have seen more thana few vaginal triplet 
  births in the days before the "C/S happy" mindset prevailed.
  
  They were of assorted breech/ceph combos, but I can't 
  recall any with any problems in the actual birth. 
  I clearly recall 3 sets being term infants !! 
  
  Pacific Islander Mums - very laid-backdates? Who 
  takes any notice of dates?? They'll come when they are good  ready  
  not a moment before !! Perhaps their mindset was the secret !!
  
  Brenda
  
- Original Message - 
From: 
Melissa Singer 
To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au 

Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:57 
AM
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] triplet 
birth

Hi Wendy,

I have onlybeen present at 26week 
triplet vaginal birth about 6 years ago. The triplets obviously needed 
nursery time and ventilation but no complicationsduringthe 
actual birth process. Surely some of the risks (cord 
involvementetc) with vaginal triplet birth are the same preterm or 
term?

Thanks
Melissa

  - Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  wendy hoey 
  
  To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au 
  
  Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 9:42 
  AM
  Subject: [ozmidwifery] triplet 
  birth
  
  Hi all, have been lurking fora while, 
  love the interesting discussions, thankyou.I'm a married mum 
  of two and hospital midwife by convenience. Anyway, at work last week a 
  woman came in at 32 weeks , triplets, in good labour at 7 cm, all head 
  down, off to her c/s asplanned with a huge amount of fuss, mum 
  stressed out to the max. Iunderstand all the risk factors and the 
  reasons for a c/s ( prem as well)just wondered if anyone out there 
  has been at a triplet vaginalbirth in Australia? Despite the risks I 
  just had thisbig gut feeling that everything would have been 
  all right. The babies were all fine except the third who needed a bit of 
  CPAP once they got into the nursery. My Auntie had a vaginal birth of 
  triplets in a community hospital in Perth in 1979, she's vague on the 
  details but all was OK with the boys.
  thanks Wendy.

[ozmidwifery] triplet birth

2005-07-27 Thread wendy hoey 



Hi all, have been lurking fora while, love 
the interesting discussions, thankyou.I'm a married mum of two and 
hospital midwife by convenience. Anyway, at work last week a woman came in at 32 
weeks , triplets, in good labour at 7 cm, all head down, off to her c/s 
asplanned with a huge amount of fuss, mum stressed out to the max. 
Iunderstand all the risk factors and the reasons for a c/s ( prem as 
well)just wondered if anyone out there has been at a triplet 
vaginalbirth in Australia? Despite the risks I just had thisbig gut 
feeling that everything would have been all right. The babies were all 
fine except the third who needed a bit of CPAP once they got into the nursery. 
My Auntie had a vaginal birth of triplets in a community hospital in Perth in 
1979, she's vague on the details but all was OK with the boys.
thanks Wendy.

Re: [ozmidwifery] gastric washes

2005-06-07 Thread wendy hoey 
Hi Sue,
   Your request reminded me of an incident I had as a new graduate.
A very mucousy baby hadn't fed for 6 hours and as per the hospital policy of
where I was working I had to do a blood sugar level which came in at
4mmol/l, as I went to reassure mum I was told by my supervisor that the
reading was due to the mucous in the tummy and not milk and therefore I
needed to do a lavage before tube feeding the baby with some formula
otherwise the blood sugar could plummet dangerously. To this day I still
can't work the logic out of this and despite much discussion she didn't
see my point of view! Research into the much used and abused lavages would
be great.
cheers
Wendy.

- Original Message -
From: Alesa Koziol [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] gastric washes


 Hi Sue
 This practice has always astounded me too. Although I will admit to
'doing'
 a couple over the years- but never ever got any returns so now I refuse to
 do them if requested and have a discussion with the Paed who requests it
or
 the Midwife who thinks she might just give it a go to clear a mucousy
babe.
 (Wont go into how ineffective a lavage is for the mucousy newborn just
now),
 So  if  you do see any actual recent evidence based references I'll be
truly
 amazed:)
 Cheers
 Alesa



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