Lactation
Resource Centre Open Night
Tuesday
17 May
Guest speaker Professor Colin Binns
Professor
Binns is the Professor of Public Health, Curtin University of Technology and
author of the Dietary Guidelines
for Children and Adolescents in Australia
incorporatingThe Infant Feeding
Mareeba midwives are in mourning. With our most experienced Dr going into private practice we have been told today that we may not do any more births after friday. We can still do antenatal and postnatal care.
I have not yet been to work today so I had to find out from the local news!!!
We will
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] Mareeba Maternity
Gee Judy
What an opportunity for midwifery to flourish!
Midwives, experts in normal birth!!
80% of women having normal pregnancies, lots of work for midwives.
Birthing services cannot be so dependent on medical services when the majority of women
Is this not the time for Qld to its first midwife
led maternity service in Mareeba??
Denise Hynd
"Let us support one another, not just in philosophy but in action, for the
sake of freedom for all women to choose exactly how and by whom, if by anyone,
our bodies will be handled."
Linda
We have put in a submission to operate as a freestanding birth
centre but only God knows where that has gone.
I am on night shift and having a class out of town as soon as
I was up I did not even see the news. It was left to a friend to tell me at 2100
that I might not have a job!!!. Those
Sounds like you need to remind the 'powers that be'
of the highly successful mid led unit at Ryde and push for the same
scenario. It really is the only sensible solution - Good
luck!!!
Sue
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing"Edmund Burke
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Thanks, that is part of the submission.
Cheers
Judy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/10/05 01:09am
Sounds like you need to remind the 'powers that be'
of the highly successful mid led unit at Ryde and push for the same
scenario. It really is the only sensible solution - Good
luck!!!
Sue
"The only
As you may be aware Camden in NSW is currently in
the same boat! We (the midwives)are working hard to get births back
at Camden with a model similar to Ryde. Maybe we could share ideas and
information on how to get these models up and running thus giving women choice
to birth with a known
Geez Justine, we are all so aware of that in Mareeba Maternity,
that is why we are what we are. Trouble is convincing the people
who have power over us. We will fight.
Judy
--- Justine Caines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gee Judy
What an opportunity for midwifery to flourish!
Midwives,
How awful for the women who were intending to birth there, for you
the other the staff working there for the PTB's at the Hospital to put
out a media release have a 'last minute' meeting as the only
communication on this issue. Not 'professional', or caring in any way of
the consequences of
hi this is off the track of this email but i was wondering is there any
studies which compare the use of rectal and axilla temps on neonates. i have
been looking for the evidence to present to the unit where i am currently
working as a Graduate midwife and even though we had been told numerous
You will be fighting for all of us who believe in
midwifery led care so push hard sisters!
I really hope you get through this, sadly it is
often true that things sometimes need to fall apart before they can be improved,
perhaps this will turn out to be a blessing in disguise - if you are
Hi Judyso sorry to hear that news also...i will
be with you all on thursday for the demonstration along with half a dozen of my
pregnant friends!
See you then!
Tanya Fleming
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Judy
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