Re: [ozmidwifery] trauma & birth stress

[Amanda & Kevin Gommers]

Jen, I'm a 1st yr student at ACU.  Don't know if this is so relevant, but one of my FTJ's had an awful experience when her 1st son was born - he was diagnosed very quickly with Downs Syndrome, and she felt that the midwives didn't know how to cope with this, and left her totally alone.  This gave her a very negative perspective on her birthing experience. She is very keen to pass this information on to new midwife students so that they learn what the woman goes through.  Already I have investigated the possibility of her coming in to talk to our group next year.   Amanda ----- Original Message ----- From: Jen Semple To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 4:18 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery] trauma & birth stress Cas,   What a valuable thing your group was able to contribute to those mid. students!   I'm a 2nd year BMid student in Melbourne & while we have touched on trauma & birth stress, we haven't heard it from the persective of the individual & her experience.   Any idea if there's such a group in Melbourne who might be interested?   Cheers, Jen Wayne and Caroline McCullough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We did a talk for a bunch of midwifery students on PTSD at Griffith Uni last Friday and some of them were really shocked at the stories we shared. It was a good talk and they seemed to get the picture. Cheers, Cas. www.casmccullough.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search