Re: [ozmidwifery] midwifery heritage??

well unfortunately, except for outstanding productions like the "birthrites" video, we do seems to have discounted those midwives completely. However, this must be rectified.   marilyn - Original Message - From: Kirsten Blacker To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July

Re: [ozmidwifery] sharing an unusual placenta question - ideas please

Heres some photos of unusual placentas, I know it doesn't have all the info you're after but thought it may be of interest to you. Warning they are graphic, if you go to the index button from them there are lots of other interesting graphics   http://medstat.med.utah.edu/nmw/mod2/Tutorial2/su

[ozmidwifery] sharing an unusual placenta question - ideas please

Hi all Thank you for your responses so far to the questions I posted last week below – are there any more ideas?   I have been asked an unusual “placenta” question tonight that I hope you can all help me with…   The woman is expecting her first baby – there are no complications or

Re: [ozmidwifery] virus

Hi everyone, I apologise for the emails being sent to this list apparently from me. I have no idea why they are being sent, as I have an up to date virus protector & have run a scan several times with no evidence of a virus. Maybe they are coming from yahoo, so I will unsubscribe from there

[ozmidwifery] virus

I have now had three viruses in as many days sent via the list from the same address, luckily the anti virus software has stopped it from getting through so beware

[ozmidwifery] Headline - New lease on life for mothers

Dear everyone, Alphia wants you to know about this story on http://www.smh.com.au. Personal Message: New lease on life for mothers By Miranda Wood July 25, 2004 URL: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/24/1090464906932.html The online edition of The Sydney Morning Herald brings you update

Re: [ozmidwifery] midwifery heritage??

Thanks for all the info Jan, Anne Summers actually spoke here at the local library 6 montsh ago and I desperately wanted to go but my bub was only a couple of weeks old.  She has a new book that I can't remember the title of - it's about how much further women still have to go to have equal rights

[ozmidwifery] Midwifrey Heritage??

Dear Kylie There is a wealth of information about early midwifery in NSW in the book With Courage and Devotion ,  Adcock et al, published by the NSW Midwives Association in 1984. there are alot of copies of this around but if you are unable to find one contact the NSW Midwives Association at [EMA

Re: [ozmidwifery] midwifery heritage??

Hi Kylie The book "Damned Whores and God's Police" - The colonization of women in Australia by Anne Summers - first published 1975 by Penguin Books touches on the first "midwives" in Sydney town in the early days of the colony. Anne's book describes how the medical profession gained the upper hand

Re: [ozmidwifery] midwifery heritage??

and what about all the history prior to white settlement? Kirsten - Original Message - From: Denise Hynd To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 6:49 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] midwifery heritage?? Dear Dierdre The non existance of midwifery a

Re: [ozmidwifery] midwifery heritage??

Dear Dierdre The non existance of midwifery as speperate to nursing and medicine in Australia is part of the myth and misinformation.   The subjugation is only since the Nurses Acts and biulding of hospitals post WW2 and as such radiated out from them in the cities.   My mother and all her

[ozmidwifery] midwifery heritage??

Well, I dont know about that!  It certainly is MY heritage.  I think we have to remember that from the first boat arrived until the 2nd world war, midwives were the ones who helped women birth. After that, the doctors took over, often by stealth & outright lies, aided by the birthing women wh