Thanks to all for your replies, Ive
forwarded them onto my cousin, and shes following them up,
Cheers
Tania
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Just letting everyone know the SA birth happened early (SROM) and labour
started quite well, mum seemed great. BUT... it quickly became very full on
and I couldn't believe it was exactly what I had read about.
Huge learning curve and I am kicking myself for not realizing sooner that it
was going
Good work Kelly
A mammoth effort for both you and the woman, and yes her surviving goes on.
Just think of the 1 in 4 woman who have experienced some form of
assault/abuse.
I soldier on knowing that 1-2-1 midwifery care would make such a huge
difference to these women, as it did me.
I must
yes and the company that sells them had a stand at
the icm and quoted one hospital where i worked abt 500, 000 bucks to set up
three rooms with their machines and the midwives station desk etc (of course the
true costs only came out when we dragged it out of them). i wondered what
the women
Hi Kelly,
It seems to me that the medical treatment for this woman was
fairly appropriate but the communication (or lack of!) wasn't! I'm
surprised that she was "allowed" to go home.There's still nothing that
beats a midwife's hand on a woman's tummy to actually feel if she is contracting
well that certainly blows out of the water the
argument that intermittent auscultation cant be done
because the staff dont have time. how many extra MWs
could be employed for one to one care with an extra
half a million??
--- Sally-Anne Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
yes and the company that
Kelly, good on you for being totally 'with her' through her journey. The
body sensations for women who have sexual abuse backgrounds are usually too
challenging to work through at the time of birth unless there has been a
huge, and I mean huge, conscious and deliberate working through all
Thanks Justine! I would love more awareness being cranked up, and would
happily accommodate any articles on BellyBelly aimed at the birthing women
and / or the men that are by their side.
One thing we found really useful (unfortunately too late) was having the bed
adjusted into a seat position
