The first story is about treatment by Magnesium sulphate for women with
severe P.E.The conclusion is about why such a
cheap effective treatment isn't being used. FASCINATING! http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7365/609
The second is about the spin media put on medical research.. "The
I think I've lost my sense of humour. This raised my hackles.
MM
PREGO: A READING BY SEAN KELLY (Life Matters: 12/9/2002)Life Matters'
Man About The House gives his response to the mysterious,terrifying,
wonderful world of childbirth.http://abc.net.au/rn/talks/lm/stories/s668218.htm
Mg Sulphate is routinely used in Hospitals at least
in Washington state and California in the USA for PE. It is one of the drugs I
was licensed to carry in case of PE. I don't know of any midwife who ever used
it but we all carried it. We did have one mum who we transferred for exhaustion
Lyn I'm sure that the client can't be refused care abnd that she can make
an informed decision reall medication at the time. A disclaimer will
suffice and accurate documentation WHAT the hell is happening to our
birthing servicesjan
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From:
lyn
kelson
Hi List
Ruby Rainbow our 10 week old (3 weeks prem)
baby grand-daughter is now refusing the breast most feeds. We have been through
colic and reflux. Mum has had mastitis twice and a vaginal infection. Ruby
started to refuse the breast the same time that her Mum started her ?period. She
Hi Sheena,
Im really
cautious about recommending anything but breast, as despite my desire to the
contrary, my one year-old had to be bottle-fed from six weeks (for reasons too
personal to go into here). I was advised by our paed to give her S26 Gold, a
very reassuring name with lots of
I used to live in the US accessing health care
without health insurance is pretty brutal!
I don't know about obstetricians, but a couple of
national midwifery organisations are the American
College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) Midwives Alliance
of North America (MANA) they both have referral
Very interesting Julie! I saw
another ad for epi-no in a pregnancy mag the other day with this new
slogan
"Empowering women with choices in
childbirth"
I nearly choked on my
cornflakes!!
I'm curiousto see how the
Australian study goes. Will be interesting to see what they find.
On
One has to wonder how many men would read this and identify with it. Is disgraceful that it is in print.
Jenny
From: "Mary Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Tracy Reibel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [ozmidwifery] A mans point of view.
Have you tried giving her a bottle of Expressed Breast milk - is it
the taste of the milk that has put her off? I would try to look at
the mothers diet - has it changed - may be a coincidence with the
bleeding? As has been said before garlic is good to
As I have said they used this on me for days - while they induced me
- one doctor came in and said that it was not proven to be doing anything
and I was taken off the drip and put back on the ward - 26+ weeks (I had
by this stage been induced with 5 lots
It is a sad but too true reflection of what
happenings in too many lives in our clever country and another reason why they
need another way to experience pregnancy and chidlbirth!!Get out too those
polies and make them implement NMAP Denise
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From:
Mary
Mary and other taught me about magneesium and of
course our diets are so depleted thse days. The japanese do not have the BP
problems we do unless they eat a western diet and as for
Iatrogenisis
That is another special
area!Denise
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From:
Mary
Murphy
Hi Christine
Is it possible to share this midwifery standard of care with
us You can e-mail me directly
Hettie GroveRN.RM.RCN.RNA.RNT.ICCE. South
Africa027-083-2260709Fax 027-011-7409715
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From:
Christine
Tony Holliday
To: Midwifery
May be mother is using a different brand of soap or
shampoo this maybe tainting the taste or smellof the breast.
Please do not use soap on the breast and not use
any deodorant if possible, baby likes the smell of mother.
Garlic is good, maybe see if you have been eating
different food, or
Thank you for thefantastic response to my
request for help with this assignment.Four wonderful midwives will
be sharing their insights with me. Thanks again for your enthusiasm and
encouragement. It's a great privilege to be able to participate in this
forum.
Yours, Wendy.
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Altho I have been attending waterbirths fo 15 yrs, I would still be very
interested in your "standards", as would many others. Is it possible to
share it with us? MM
Dear List,
What I read many years ago was that it was a pig
castrator that did the c/section .He was successful
because he knew the importace of sterilising
instruments.(long before drs. knew this)Ann --- Jo
Dean Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you
would be amazed how many midwives do not
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double ugh!!
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From:
Vicki Chan
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 6:00
AM
Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] A mans point
of view.
Ugh!
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Dear List,
The gyno. has suggested that I may need a progestrone
implant.Does anyone have any advice on this.About 20
years ago I stopped taking the pill due to the
increase of intensity and frequency of migraines.I
used to get 5 migraines per week.Would this be the
case with an implant?Ann ---
Some years ago, I went to a conference (in London) about prenatal influences. Peter Hepper gave a talk about his research on prenatal influences, including babies recognition of sound heard before birth - particularly the "neighbours" theme tune :-)
However, he did speculate that part of the
This is an oldie but a goodie. Cheers Rhonda,
regards, Lois
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From:
Rhonda
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 10:27
AM
Subject: [ozmidwifery] Fw: Fwd: It isn't
easy getting old
Just for a
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