Re: [ozmidwifery] Placenta cream

2002-10-23 Thread Lesley Kuliukas
Hi In England we used to send them off to cosmetic companies to do I don't know what with but after HIV it all stopped. Lesley - Original Message - From: Jennifer Semple [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 7:06 AM Subject: [ozmidwifery] Placenta cream

Re: [ozmidwifery] Interesting..

2003-05-30 Thread Lesley Kuliukas
I always believed it was secondary or terminal apnoea that caused the baby to gasp whether inside or outside of the uterus. Lesley - Original Message - From: Mary Murphy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery]

Re: [ozmidwifery] Re Episiotomy

2003-06-13 Thread Lesley Kuliukas
Hi Here's the MIDIRS abstract which concludes by recommending hands on. Lesley A randomised controlled trial of care of the perineum during second stage of normal labour-British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology,vol 105, no 12, December 1998, pp

Re: [ozmidwifery] twilight delivery - or twilight baby?

2003-06-18 Thread Lesley Kuliukas
Rather ironically this was promoted by the feminist movement. It was a German technique adopted by the Americans as a way to emancipate women from the pain of labour and so free them from the sexist burden of childbirth pain. Lesley . - Original Message - From: Mary Murphy

Re: [ozmidwifery] solids for 11mth old

2003-09-05 Thread Lesley Kuliukas
UNICEF releases new guidance on bed sharing for breastfeeding mothers-05/09/2003UNICEF UK's Baby Friendly Initiative, with the support of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID), has launched a new information

Re: [ozmidwifery] Email GNT re Homebirth

2003-10-03 Thread Lesley Kuliukas
Excellent idea Denise (you're full of them!) Lesley - Original Message - From: Denise Hynd To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 10:38 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery] Email GNT re Homebirth Dear All George Negus Tonight continues to want to

Re: [ozmidwifery] Another unec. C-section...

2003-11-02 Thread Lesley Kuliukas
Another nail in the coffin: washingtonpost.com Elective Caesareans Judged Ethical Doctors Group Issues Statement on Popular Procedure By Rob SteinWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, October 31, 2003; Page A02 It is ethical for doctors to deliver a baby by Caesarean section even if the

Re: [ozmidwifery] New models of midwifery care

2003-11-29 Thread Lesley Kuliukas
Hear, hear! - Original Message - From: Andrea Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 3:53 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] New models of midwifery care Hello Jo and Justine, Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us - can I suggest that you

[ozmidwifery] fetal heart in labour

2003-12-01 Thread Lesley Kuliukas
Hi all I would really appreciate some opinions on frequency of listening to the FH in labour, particularly the second stage. I've always listened in every half hour in early labour, 15 minutely in cracking labour and after every contraction (and through some of them) in the second stage. I

Re: [ozmidwifery] fetal heart in labour

2003-12-03 Thread Lesley Kuliukas
Well I always think that when evrything is going really well and smoothly in labour with no problems then frankly anyone could help at a birth. A midwife is there in order to act quickly when things begin to move away from normality and use her skills to deal with the situation -

Re: [ozmidwifery] fetal heart in labour

2003-12-03 Thread Lesley Kuliukas
Oops, accidentally hit a button which sent off my unfinished email! Sorry. What I was saying was that in the second stage of labour it is possible to hurry a birth along if the condition of the baby deteriorates but how would you know that if you weren't listening in? I can think of 2

Re: [ozmidwifery] Fw:(WOW) birth and breastfeeding attitudes

2003-12-08 Thread Lesley Kuliukas
I used to breastfeed mine (one-handed) while pushing a supermarket trolley around doing the weekly shop! I even managed to continue at the check-out by passing up one item at a time from the trolley to the conveyor belt. Not conventional or restful but when you have 4 small children things just

RE: [ozmidwifery] waterbirth

2005-03-13 Thread Lesley Kuliukas
Hi In the last edition of MIDIRS there was an interesting article called 'Giving Birth the Swedish Way' written by a third year midwifery student from the UK who did an elective placement in Sweden. She quotes: ...although hydrotherapy is highly recognised in Sweden for its effectiveness during