[ozmidwifery] letter to the ed in Adelaide...

2005-02-21 Thread Tania Smallwood
Hi   Just a quick mail to say congratulations to Jo Bainbridge for her excellent letter to the editor in todays Advertiser, outlining the importance of the first group of DE midwives and the vision we all have for every woman to have her own known midwife.  Well done Jo!   Tania  

Re: [ozmidwifery] Red heads

2005-02-21 Thread Denise Fisher
http://tinyurl.com/3ubg7 This may have been it Natalie. I didn't note the article at the time, and this is just from a pubmed search I've just done. Cheers Denise At 12:24 PM 22/02/2005 +0800, you wrote: do you know where we could find this article?, as I'd like to know for personal and profes

Re: [ozmidwifery] Red heads

2005-02-21 Thread Natalie
do you know where we could find this article?, as I'd like to know for personal and professional reasons the implications of being a redhead   Natalie fellow red head midwife    ---Original Message---   From: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Date: 02/21/05 15:45:40 To: ozmidwifery@aceg

[ozmidwifery] redheads

2005-02-21 Thread Mary Murphy
I would be very interested to see something concrete about this.  My mother, a redhead, now 90yrs old, was a midwife.  She has always told me to "look out" for redheads.  Of course in her day there was no ergometrine and they had to be very careful of PPH.  MM

Re: [ozmidwifery] question

2005-02-21 Thread JoFromOz
Jeannie Minnis wrote:    As a red head, I am curious about the evidence for the active management of third stage for red heads! Jeannie Minnis    Not sure about the 'evidence'... but most likely anecdote.  Apparently red-heads 'bleed more', something to

[ozmidwifery] ABC article about rural birthing

2005-02-21 Thread Graham and Helen
College warns bush births under threat Monday, 21 February 2005 The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine says unless something is done now, women will not be able to have their babies in the country. The number of GPs working in obstetrics has declined by 50 per cent in recent y

Re: [ozmidwifery] Red heads

2005-02-21 Thread Kim Stead
Just to add my two cents. red heads are difficult to perform venipuncture on - or so the story goes!!!  Maybe it is because I am blonde!!  :-)          ---Original Message---   From: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Date: 21/02/2005 6:52:23 p.m. To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au S