This from the hospital which
claims to be extending it's birth centre ethos to LD? That's clearly a
crock. I can't believe the lengths hospitals will go to in an effort to avoid
dealing with CLIENTS in an appropriate and evidence based manner. This is up
there with the new robot designed to
the efm on satellite systems does not subsitute for
the registered midwife in the rooms. We have this at the hosp that i work
in and you still have to stay in the room with the woman whilst she is
labouring. Not all clients are on moniters and some are intermittenly
monitored with a doppler
I thought it was more so that the woman wasn't stuck in the room - she can go for a walk to the coffee shop or in the garden or something. Just to normalise labour a bit for those considered a bit more high risk.JoOn 28/04/2006, at 3:19 PM, sharon wrote:the efm on satellite systems does not
I second Phytolacca. I had 2 bouts of
mastitis. First very sick, antibiotics the works, 2nd time at sign
of redness and pain took Phytolacca and fought it off without becoming sick.
I got it from the local chemist that sold
Weleda products but that was in NZ.
Kirsten
Student
hi all I think any move to make continuous monitoring easier to do is dangerous as it means more and more women will be subjected to it. im sure everyones aware of the huge cochrane review comparing intermittent aus with continuous monitoring. this looks at both high and low risk women and finds
What a lovely story.
Now I have one -my daughter Larissa had an exquisite waterbirth at Monash
Birth centre on Monday - no drugs, no stitches, lovely gentle hands off
midwives.
Thanks to Monique, Lainie and Fiona.
Larissa has started motherhood confident and intuitively - breastfeeding
Todays story on ABC at lunchtime.
Please circulate to relevant email lists.
If you disagree with Kay Gibbons from the Murdoch Children's Research
Institute, who says ' I don't think there's been a widespread practice of
people stopping breastfeeding because they believe their child wasn't
Hi Pinky,
Congratulations to you and your daughter, such wonderful news. I remember
seeing Mary Moody speak at the Homebirth Conf in Katoomba a few years back
and she spoke of how shocked she was at the emotions that came up at the
arrival of her grandchildren. She said she hadn't been prepared
Hi,
I was a student at a large Adelaide hospital and last year I witnessed
most of the midwives staying at the front desk for most of the time
watching 'their' women's CTGs.
I found it appalling - that we as students were observing this as
modern midwifery management; that the women were
