Me too.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Cheryl LHK
Sent: Friday, 12 January 2007 4:48 PM
To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au
Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] Fw: Support people in birthing suites
We are a small rural hospital - approx 130-150
Dear Lisa, Our policy used to be 1 support at a time, and I did use this once
to remove a sister that the couple did not wish to be there , but could not
tell her themselves for fear of offence. Now I think it may have been changed
or at least we ignore it ( it may be 2 now). For me, if the
The hospital where I work there is a limit of 3 people but saying this we
don’t really mind if we have more I have been in rooms where there have
been 8 people or more as long as they are not impeding the work of the
midwife its ok. So in all however many you feel the woman wants in the room.
We are a small rural hospital - approx 130-150 births in the year - and over
the last 8 yrs of very part-time work (between having 3 children) we have
had siblings, toddlers, parents, friends, in-laws, neighbours and although
most women have 1-2 people by choice, I have seen 4+ wandering in and
