: Re: [ozmidwifery] Birth Parties
One of the reasons this has become big news in the UK is that there are
still many hospitals around the country who restrict those who can be with
a labouring women to one person or sometimes just two. This ancient policy
has not really been challenged in many
Title: RE: [ozmidwifery] Birth Parties
Andrea wrote: This ancient policy has not really been challenged in many places and is accepted and I keep explaining in the many workshops that I have facilitated in the UK that we have had an open door policy in Australia
Well, this is not always so
Title: RE: [ozmidwifery] Birth Parties
I knowa number of women
in QLD who haven't been allowed anyone and their dp has been sent home during
labour. All in the last 2-3 years.
Scary indeed!
J
- Original Message -
From:
Mary
Murphy
To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au
Title: RE: [ozmidwifery] Birth Parties
Up here too they say 2, althoughmany of the
midwives consider a doula to not be counted as part of the 2 and will be open to
more besides. Obviously the idea is to restrict it to only those there with a
purpose not crowd the midwives ability to work
If we encouraged Spectator Galleries
when people are having sex, they would be branded as Perverted and the
spectators as Perverts. This is no different. Maybe the reporting is
sensationalist? Still, it is a long way from the undisturbed birthing
philosophy. MM
Spectator
: [ozmidwifery] Birth
Parties
If we encouraged
Spectator Galleries when people are having sex, they would be branded as
Perverted and the spectators as Perverts. This is no different.
Maybe the reporting is sensationalist? Still, it is a long way from the
undisturbed birthing
One of the reasons this has become big news in the UK is that there are
still many hospitals around the country who restrict those who can be with
a labouring women to one person or sometimes just two. This ancient policy
has not really been challenged in many places and is accepted as being
