RE: [ozmidwifery] fear clinics etc

2005-04-17 Thread Lieve Huybrechts
Title: Bericht Just returned of my first missed homebirth :-). Baby arrived 20 min before me and parents did a nice job. Father could even tell the baby was a 'starwatcher' posterior position. 3860 gr, no tears, aren't they marvellous?   What was interesting with this birth was that the m

Re: [ozmidwifery] fear clinics etc

2005-04-17 Thread Diane Gardner
Title: Message You're absolutely right Jo. Society has changed. Women don't have the support systems around them anymore, mothers, sisters, auntys are all going back to work and more women are left alone to figure out, what is birth really about. Mind you we have the wonderful internet that

RE: [ozmidwifery] fear clinics etc

2005-04-17 Thread Dean & Jo
Title: Message In a way, I’m ducking for cover here, hypnobirthing is just another way that we teach women that they don’t know how to birth. Reliance of stuff, instead of trusting their instinctive knowing.   interesting way of looking at it Sally - could it not be said that hypnobirthing

RE: [ozmidwifery] fear clinics etc

2005-04-17 Thread Sally Westbury
Have you read Michael Odent’s new book. The Caesarean?? It talks about not stimulating the women. I think that it is something like hypnobirthing in that it is about not stimulating the neocortex, allowing the woman to stay in her experience not in the world.   I would hesitate to say th

RE: [ozmidwifery] research register?

2005-04-17 Thread Dr Barbara Vernon
Hi Jo, You might be interested to know that the College has recently taken steps to set up a library of research and PhD theses on midwifery topics in Australia. We're planning to publish abstracts in each issue of the Journal and have written to all the universities asking them to pass this i

[ozmidwifery] fear clinics etc

2005-04-17 Thread Belinda Maier
Title: Bericht Thanks I am looking specifically for fear clinics  that have been mentioned in Scandinavian literature I think they use cognitive therapy but have so far been unable to gather much info about them. the hypnotherapy etc is of great interest to me and I feel very strongly that m