[ozmidwifery] Eating In Labour- evidence!

2004-03-01 Thread Jen Semple
Wow, it's interesting that women are even restricted from eating solid foods while they're labouring... the Cochrane folks, Enkin et al. (2000) Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy Childbirth. (3rd ed, Oxford University Press) have a whole section on nutrition in labour (pp. 259- 263). It can be

Re: [ozmidwifery] Urgent: Need Info on Eating In Labour Policies

2004-03-01 Thread Lieve Huybrechts
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] Urgent: Need Info on Eating In Labour Policies You could contact Michel Odent at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] . He did some talks about eating in labour. Prevent the mother from eating gives adrenalines that counteract with oxytocine and endorfines and causes

Re: [ozmidwifery] Eating In Labour- evidence!

2004-03-01 Thread JoFromOz
Yup, I have that exact same book :) And I agree with you :) Jo Original Message From: Jen SempleTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 3:57 PMSubject: [ozmidwifery] Eating In Labour- evidence! Wow, it's interesting that women are even restricted from eating solid foods

Re: [ozmidwifery] Urgent: Need Info on Eating In Labour Policies

2004-03-01 Thread Denise Hynd
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] Urgent: Need Info on Eating In Labour Policies Is it notalso logical that a starved body does not function as well as a nourished even without the one inquestion being in the middle of performing labour??Denise Hynd - Original Message - From: Lieve

Re: [ozmidwifery] The best news...!

2004-03-01 Thread Jo Bourne
As a consumer where is a letter best sent in support of this news? To Mary Chiarella? If so does any one have an address? thanks Jo At 3:37 +1100 1/3/04, Andrea Robertson wrote: From the Sydney Morning Herald today. --- Publicly funded home births for healthy women on agenda

Re: [ozmidwifery] The best news...!

2004-03-01 Thread jo hunter
I think the Sydney Morning Herald would be a good place to send a letter as it will reach more people. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All letters and emails must include the senders home address and day and evening phone numbers for verification as well as being no more than 200 words - Good luck. Jo

[ozmidwifery] BORN IN CAUL

2004-03-01 Thread Mrs Joanne M Fisher
Beautifully told Tina. Cheers, Joanne. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] BORN IN CAUL Hello fellow ozmiders.I have pasted below a birth story from

[ozmidwifery] National seminar on improving maternity services

2004-03-01 Thread Barbara Vernon
Dear ozmidders, Please find below information about this seminar being run by ARCHI - the Australian Resource Centre for Healthcare Innovations - in Melbourne in June 2004. It would be great to get as many presenters as possible on midwifery care and its benefits. Please forward this to your

[ozmidwifery] birthcentre vbacs

2004-03-01 Thread Jessica Stewart
hello all! was wondering if anyone could help me out, im looking for articles, hospital policies, anything at all related to vbacs in birthing centres[if not bc, then hospitals in general is fine, and any homebirth info would also be useful!], why we cant have them/can/why we should etc!

Re: [ozmidwifery] Eating In Labour- evidence!

2004-03-01 Thread Kathy McCarthy-Bushby
The Midwifery Dilemma: to fast or feed the labouring woman makes a few interesting comments that you might find helpful. Basically, it is believed that the decline in the general anaethesia rate for obstetric patients and the improvements in anaesthetic drugs and techniques over the past 50 years

Re: [ozmidwifery] Eating In Labour- evidence!

2004-03-01 Thread Patricia David
One of the more interesting diets in labour that I witnessed was from a much villified sub-cultural group in our society who ate fried potatoes dusted with a wide variety of seasonings washed down with a foul black sticky liquid which they swore was the only food they could keep down.

Re: [ozmidwifery] The best news...!

2004-03-01 Thread Denise Hynd
Dear Jo for maximum effect Send a letter to the SMH editor and copy to Mary Chiarelli both have web sites so you should write the letter and can send via email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and or snail mail I have done the former Denise Hynd - Original Message - From: Jo Bourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [ozmidwifery] BORN IN CAUL

2004-03-01 Thread TinaPettigrew
In a message dated 2/03/04 9:45:08 AM AUS Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Beautifully told Tina. Cheers, Joanne. Thanks Joanne, Regards Tina P.

Re: [ozmidwifery] Moving to Australia

2004-03-01 Thread Maternity Ward Mareeba Hospital
Hi Wendy, My husband and Imoved to Australia last August, Its a different life, and different working also. I had worked in a medium maternity unit in England, and we wanted to move to Cairns area, I was offered a post in a small hospital with 240 births in the area, which I presumed was

Re: [ozmidwifery] The best news...!

2004-03-01 Thread Melissah Scott @ Spilt Art
Is the [EMAIL PROTECTED] email for mary Chiarelli? Denise? Untitled Document www.Splitart.com - Original Message - From: Denise Hynd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 11:54 AM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] The best news...! Dear Jo for maximum effect