Re: [ozmidwifery] what happened in this birth..?
Dear Kristin, you said: This woman is having a tough time postnatally trying to fill in the gaps herself without *offending* staff by asking too many questions.. What is giving this woman the impression she is at risk of 'offending' staff? This is very worrying. I would encourage her to make an appointment to see the doctor(s) and midwife(ves) who were looking after her and go through the notes step by step. She can make the appointment through the manager of the 'delivery suite/labour ward' or the service manager or the head staff specialist. She has every right to get her questions answered in a way that make sense to her. She probably needs someone with her to support her and who can help her with asking the questions she wants answers to. As Andrea said, it is very difficult to make sense of what happens to women in labour unless you were there, and even then it can be hard to understand sometimes. warmly, Carolyn
[ozmidwifery] New Grads
Great words Suzi and so true. Sue is an amazing midwife and has done so much for birthing women and their families. We are so privileged to have her in our profession. Happy New Year everyone. love, Carolyn - Original Message - From: suzi and brett To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 11:30 AM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] What happened with this birth? Congratulations Sue and all the other new graduates, well done! I know its a big ask to become so called legitimised when you have already been a midwife for so long, its also great to have someone with your experience within the system too. You have so much wisdom to share. Love Suzi xx
Bipolar realities or two streams of thinking about Twins (very long)
who want to see a movement towards respect and support of the innate intelligence of birth and women's processes need to join together to ensure a vibrant, healthy, powerful force and safe, sane birth practices.We need to speak up, to end the silence around the iatrogenic morbidity issues in birthing. Women must claim their right to be unmolested, both emotionally and physically in birthing. Midwives must claim their role as guardians of the normal and protectors of the birthing space. Medicine must realise the inappropriateness of a blanket approach to birthing women. They snuff out the fire of spirited birth. If medicine can recreate themselves as a safety net, that is much more helpful and supportive for birthing women. Joining and becoming active in Maternity Coalition is one such creative pathway for safe change. It is only when enough women (and their families), midwives and medical men (and women) come together in true, consultative partnership will we see the build up of enough momentum to change the focus and direction of the current reality. promoting and celebrating women's innate birthing intelligence, Carolyn Hastie No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit Helen Keller (one of my many heroes) Heartlogic Consultancy Life Architects and interior designers Our mission is to help people discover how to be really excited about their lives Phone 1800 505 337 Fax +61 43 886 819 Mobile 0418 428 430 Your future awaits you. Which one will you choose? -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe.
Re: Twin policies.LONG
Hi all, isn't this the most exciting and wonderful story? I had one night's sleep followed by a day that will be a highlight in my career - WATERBIRTH OF TWINS - Olivia and Brianna . and guess where? in their LOCAL STATE HOSPITAL!! Just shows what is possible when people respect women's plans and processes and work to create an environment where it can happen with a safety net in place. Happily Celebrating women's innate birthing intelligence, Carolyn -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe.
Fw: I learn something every day (long)
Sheryl wrote: That's one of the many things I love about this job. Every birth I have ever attended has never been like any other. ain't it the truth! :-) she says to him , so can you tell what that is then and he looks between her legs and sees what looks like the baby's head. So that's when he calls us, on the cordless phone while Alison's in the shower. He hangs up the phone and she stands up to turn the shower off and out comes the baby! Isn't this wonderful???!!! So funny. And what a testimony to the preparation that you two gave them that they were able to manage and stay calm and collected (even though bemused :-) Loved Robin's story too of the woman who went from 2 cms to fullyquick smart - helps us to recognise the limitations of the findings of VE's - despite the myths around the need to do them. One labouring woman I cared for as a hospital midwife, was three cms and head -2 and as I withdrew my fingers, the baby followed - sure surprised me that day! Took me a while to integrate that one and provided me withfirm basis of skeptism about the 'need' for VE's - I do concede they are a useful tool on occasions - more so for the mother so she 'knows' where she's at. Another amazing and delightful story is of the time when the husband of a (primigravida) woman I cared for as a private practitioner rang to say she was in labour and feeling pressure.This woman was booked to birth in hospital. According to her husband, she refused to go to hospital until she was checked, she'd heard all about these false labours and was keen to be sure it was the real thing.I was out and about in the late evening and had no gear in the car or at her place. AsI drove to her place, thinking oh oh and what if there is meconium?? and what if there is...etc etc, I went through every possible disaster scenario with no equipment and thought, well, I'll just have to handle it whatever happens. When I arrived, I was shown into their bedroom. They had full length mirrors and an en -suite bathroom. She was kneeling and looking at herselfover her shoulder in the full length mirror. The baby's head was just about crowned. I said 'how are you feeling?' she said "I've been better!" and then "I'm glad you are here, I don't have to hold on anymore" and with that, out came the baby. The placenta followed in similar expedient fashion. Her perineum was intact. Her entire labour was 2 hours and 15 minutes. The next baby they chose to have a homebirth saying that it was just as well to have it planned this time. The birth of the second babywas also very efficient, neat and controlled. Had the pleasure of assisting a woman last week who had a normal birth after a caesarian. She was stuck with an anterior lip forhours last time and finally went for a caesarian with the full spinal headache after. During the pregnancy we explored every possibility and the ins and outs of the physiology. She was well prepared and focused. Wanted the baby early, so as to avoid the being late issue so common with women wanting a VBAC. Went into labour at 38 weeks. progressed quickly. Had to do some mental gymnastics regarding pushing the baby out. Was telling herself she was tired (her contractions went off then) and had to change it to "Ihave energy and I can do it!" with passion and feeling. Her contractions came on in greater force and she pushed the baby out beautifully (he had a 37cm head and she's built like a wippet). We were just discussing the labour and her thinking tonight and she was relating how she had to get her head around birthing her baby andwhat an effort it was tostay focused. We talked about how at one point during second stage she was sitting on the toilet and we were in the bedroom having a chat and she yelled out "Shut up out there! Don't you know I'm having to focus on having a baby and I can't do it with you all talking!" We all sniggered quietly, but pleased she had claimed her space - women so often are so busy worrying and caring for others that they don't claim the environment they need tobirth in and when shedid that, we knew she would be fine. It's so true what Sherylsaid - learning all the time - the astonishing potentialand capabilities of birthing women. Thanks for telling us such a wonderful story Sheryl. Sharing the stories is so important - it's great that you have got us going again. Celebrating women's innate birthing intelligence, Carolyn Hastie
A message from Deepak Chopra
Dear Friends, a message from Deepak Chopra. I thought you may find it helpful. I do. love, Carolyn From: prembuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Deeper Wound As fate would have it, I was leaving New York on a jet flight that took off 45 minutes before the unthinkable happened. By the time we landed in Detroit, chaos had broken out. When I grasped the fact that American security had broken down so tragically, I couldn't respond at first. My wife and son were also in the air on separate flights, one to Los Angeles, one to San Diego. My body went absolutely rigid with fear. All I could think about was their safety, and it took several hours before I found out that their flights had been diverted and both were safe. Strangely, when the good news came, my body still felt that it had been hit by a truck. Of its own accord it seemed to feel a far greater trauma that reached out to the thousands who would not survive and the tens of thousands who would survive only to live through months and years of hell. And I asked myself, Why didn't I feel this way last week? Why didn't my body go stiff during the bombing of Iraq or Bosnia? Around the world my horror and worry are experienced every day. Mothers weep over horrendous loss, civilians are bombed mercilessly, refugees are ripped from any sense of home or homeland. Why did I not feel their anguish enough to call a halt to it? As we hear the calls for tightened American security and a fierce military response to terrorism, it is obvious that none of us has any answers. However, we feel compelled to ask some questions. Everything has a cause, so we have to ask, What was the root cause of this evil? We must find out not superficially but at the deepest level. There is no doubt that such evil is alive all around the world and is even celebrated. Does this evil grow from the suffering and anguish felt by people we don't know and therefore ignore? Have they lived in this condition for a long time? One assumes that whoever did this attack feels implacable hatred for America. Why were we selected to be the focus of suffering around the world? All this hatred and anguish seems to have religion at its basis. Isn't something terribly wrong when jihads and wars develop in the name of God? Isn't God invoked with hatred in Ireland, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Israel, Palestine, and even among the intolerant sects of America? Can any military response make the slightest difference in the underlying cause? Is there not a deep wound at the heart of humanity? If there is a deep wound, doesn't it affect everyone? When generations of suffering respond with bombs, suicidal attacks, and biological warfare, who first developed these weapons? Who sells them? Who gave birth to the satanic technologies now being turned against us? If all of us are wounded, will revenge work? Will punishment in any form toward anyone solve the wound or aggravate it? Will an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and limb for a limb, leave us all blind, toothless and crippled? Tribal warfare has been going on for two thousand years and has now been magnified globally. Can tribal warfare be brought to an end? Is patriotism and nationalism even relevant anymore, or is this another form of tribalism? What are you and I as persons going to do about what is happening? Can we afford to let the deeper wound fester any longer? Everyone is calling this an attack on America, but is it not a rift in our collective soul? Isn't this an attack on civilization from without that is also from within? When we have secured our safety once more and cared for the wounded, after the period of shock and mourning is over, it will be time for soul searching. I only hope that these questions are confronted with the deepest spiritual intent. None of us will feel safe again behind the shield of military might and stockpiled arsenals. There can be no safety until the root cause is faced. In this moment of shock I don't think anyone of us has the answers. It is imperative that we pray and offer solace and help to each other. But if you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world. Love, Deepak Chopra adres website: www.livingsatsang.nl __ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ ==^=== No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit Helen Keller Heartlogic Consultancy Independent Qualified Associate for MDG International Inc. Success Engineering Systems TM The Mastery Development Group TM Mentoring the transformation of the human spirit by rediscovering
Fw: A Call for Moral Creativity
Dear all, so wonderful to see so many people calling for a new way of dealing with the horrors of terrorism. I thought you may find this helpful. love, Carolyn Civilization is the intelligent management of human emotions Jim Rohn - Original Message - From: Gwen Benjamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 19 September 2001 12:44 PM Subject: Fwd: A Call for Moral Creativity Mary Hunt is known to many in Australia. This excellent Call for Moral Creativity appeared on the Water list. Gwen Benjamin From: Mary E. Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: A Call for Moral Creativity Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:46:50 -0400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Call for Moral Creativity Mary E. Hunt Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER) Silver Spring, Maryland September 18, 2001 New horrors require new moral creativity. The tragic events of September 11, 2001, challenge people of good will, especially religious people, to find new ways of handling conflict and dealing with difference. Fortunately, feminist and other progressive thinkers have been working along these lines for some time so we do not start from scratch. Moral creativity requires the deepest resources of our various religious traditions and the most profound human insights we can muster. It is a process that prioritizes careful listening over reactive speech. It may not be enough to stem the tide of harsh words and plans for retribution. But it is a step away from the dynamics that spawned this catastrophe. When we engage in it together, it is a step toward peace. The first moral duty we have is to those whose lives have been lost, whose bodies have been damaged. We search, rescue, bury and mourn. Their loved ones and the rest of us in the human family live with the pain of their deaths, the futility of their suffering. We vow not vengeance, but an end to such evil as the most appropriate way to honor their memory. Then the hard work continues as we discern morally appropriate steps to bring about a new peace. No one pretends this is easy. Anyone who has a simple answer is mistaken. But it is as essential and patriotic a task as digging through rubble or donating blood. It is an investment in the market of love and ideas, not the market of money and profit. This ethical analysis cannot be carried on in the old, inadequate language of just war and collateral damage. It requires new categories like global concern and life is precious if it is to be useful. Otherwise, we act as if nuclear, biological, chemical and other weapons were not capable of destroying all of us and the earth we inhabit. This is a new moment for which old words are outmoded. Let them go that out of the silence might come insight. The danger of responding to terrorism with military might, harming innocent people even if it would eradicate terrorism, is simply too great. The potential to unleash even more violence around the world is enormous. Such violence will sanction, however implicitly, the many forms of militarism and hatred that help to create the conditions for the unspeakable acts in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. This will be a deadly failure of the moral imagination. Moral creativity is needed to produce responses that will stop the terrorists without falling prey to their logic. This is the task to which we need to set our hearts and minds. Let all people of good will, especially religious people, exercise our moral imagination to create sustainable, feasible alternatives to saber rattling and war. If we can send people into space and create the Internet, surely we can pool our intelligence of many sorts and find a solution. It will be not be easy or obvious, but it can be done. Now is the time to ask critical questions of our countries and of ourselves. It is time to learn about religions and nations that, until now, have simply been words to us. For example, Islam no more teaches its adherents to strive toward martyrdom by killing people than does Christianity or Judaism. It is time for a frank assessment of our place as a rich, over-consuming nation in a world where so many have so little to lose. Only then can we begin to consider what strategies might get to the roots of the problem. Peace requires a certain humility. Ordinary U.S. citizens can engage in this process in very practical ways by rethinking our own reactions even as we grieve and tremble. Peace and patriotism are intertwined. We can start with the common symbols people rely on during this crisis. Each time we sing the National Anthem, or God Bless America, let us add a song for peace, such as Let there be Peace on Earth, to remind ourselves that we are citizens of the world, not simply U.S. citizens. It will remind us that our goal is global well
Interesting articles
Hi colleagues, a couple of interesting articles, great to see the evidence mounting.. http://bmj.com/cgi/collection/pregnancy Promoting normality in childbirth Richard Johanson and Mary Newburn BMJ 2001;323 1142-1143 http://bmj.com/cgi/collection/reproductive_medicine Unwanted caesarean sections among public and private patients in Brazil: prospective study Joseph E Potter, Elza Berquo, Ignez H O Perpetuo, Ondina Fachel Leal, Kristine Hopkins, Marta Rovery Souza, and Maria Celia de Carvalho Formiga BMJ 2001;323 1155-1158 Carolyn Hastie Heartlogic Consultancy Independent Qualified Associate for MDG International Inc. Success Engineering Systems TM The Mastery Development Group TM Our Business is Progressive Personal Development. Our Strength is our people. _ Vision Statement Mentoring the transformation of the human spirit by rediscovering and manifesting one's life purposeSoul Destiny Our Mission To provide the knowledge, tools, skills, mindset, support, mentoring, and learning environment to empower individuals, groups and corporations to create and achieve their life's purpose and goals. Phone 1800 502 298 Fax +61 43 886 819 Mobile 0418 428 430 Your future awaits you. Which one will you choose? -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe.
