Re: [ozmidwifery] Magazine Horror story

2002-12-03 Thread Gabrielle Williams
] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 2:35 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Magazine Horror story Gabrielle,I am very interested in the research you have conducted. I have been collecting over the last two years various newspaper and magazine articles on pregnancy and birth. I was wondering

[ozmidwifery] Magazine Horror story

2002-12-01 Thread Gabrielle Williams
Thank you Andrea for alerting us to the 'power of the popular media's portrayal of childbearing', and howinsidious it can be. Recent research I have completed on the information women receive regarding childbearing in popular women's magazines was very disturbing. SHE magazine was one

Re: [ozmidwifery] Magazine Horror story

2002-12-01 Thread Alphia Garrety
Gabrielle, I am very interested in the research you have conducted. I have been collecting over the last two years various newspaper and magazine articles on pregnancy and birth. I was wondering if you were interested in sharing some of your research. I am in the middle of my PhD thesis- and a

Re: [ozmidwifery] Magazine horror story

2002-11-26 Thread Justine Caines
Hi Andrea and all Shame they forgot about that article on maternal deaths and the NHMRC Report they ran and the subsequent letter I wrote and they published on the amazing benefits of midwifery care and the buzz of natural birth. Too push to push, but not too posh for a pulmonary embolism? Sad

[ozmidwifery] Magazine horror story

2002-11-25 Thread Andrea Robertson
Hi kisters, It has just come to my attention that *She* magazine has published a special edition that is being distributed in hospitals in huge piles for a free giveaway. The cover story is *She gives birth* and, you guessed it, the lead story is *Too posh to push*. The whole magazine is