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From: lyncottee
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Sent: Friday, 11 July 2003 5:16 PM
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Subject: help with twins
Dear List,
My nanny
agency has just had a call from a mother with 2 week-old twins in the East
Brighton area (VIC). She really needs some help with them, the Caesar scar,
lactation and all the other issues surrounding a multiple birth.
She needs
someone for the next month from about midnight to 5 am to help with the feeds
for about three nights a week.
All the
appropriately qualified people on my books are fully booked at the moment but
I’d still really like to help her. I’m not seeking to make any profit from
this, I just know that she needs some help, as she sounds exhausted. Can anyone
assist?
Regards,
Lyn Cottee
Starlight
Angels
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Sent: Friday, 11 July 2003 1:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] whats
happening ?
Lynne,
My thoughts on the not lactating are ? an ultrasound to make sure there is not
some placenta left behind. I do remember reading something about Mg So4 having
this affect but can't recall where. Will let you know if I can find it.
Andrea Q
On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 07:14 AM, Lynne Staff wrote:
Hi Jan
Must be something in the water - I
had 3 t/f to hosp as well in the past 2 months. One - a primigravida
- C/B after BP shot through the roof antenatally and SROM at 37 weeks. She did
labour, but for whatever reason, her body did not open, and her BP sneaking up
higher and higher despite Mg So4 and hydrallazine. Home now but lactation did
not establish and she has tried everything. Is anyone aware of MgSo4 or
hydrallazine having an impact on lactation?
Another had the most amazing labour - had
been labouring for quite some time before she called (as she and partner had
been happy working together). First baby. After some time I asked if I could
examine her - something wasn't right - she had the most awful back pain and the
babe was not OP - the head VERY deep in the pelvis and had been for some weeks
prior to birth. Head was +2 and covered with lower segment. Looking for cervix
and finally located it very high and anterior behind the right obturator
foramen. Pinhole in size and the lower segment/cervix paper thin. No wonder she
had this dreadful backache. I began to massage the tine hole in her cervix very
gently - within 5 mins had opened to 3-4. Another 2 hrs later, still awful
backache (imagine the stretch on her posterior ligaments), and still the same.
Some more gentle massage and the cervix opened to 5-6. Into bath, but backache
absolutely unbearable after another hour. Penney asked me to massage again, but
my short little fingers could only coax it to 8 where it stayed for the next
hour. She decided to go to hosp for some pain relief (!), and when we arrived I
organised an epidural for her. Asked to check her again before the anaesthetist
arrived, because it might change what she wanted to do - anterior lip, backache
gone and she pushed out her baby after I phoned the anaesthetisit to say we
wouldn't be requiring him after all. All of us crying - one exhausted but oh so
triumphant woman.
Third primigravida, who laboured
beautifully at home and the baby just did not come past caput on view despite
everything we tried. So decided to go to hosp, where she had a reseonably
difficult ventouse - no analgesia (her choice) - she just wanted to have the
baby. Hospital staff were wonderful in each case - women and their partners
treated with respect and each of the women has come away feeling good about the
transfer.
Whew! Sorry about the length of this
posting but needed to talk! Thanks for the opening, Jan.
From another very tired and continually
learing midwife - Lynne :-)
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Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003
11:14 PM
Subject: [ozmidwifery] whats
happening ?
bad run?
unbelievable 5 births this month3 c/s
trans from homebirth 1 normal del priv hosp 1 normal del home what is
happening bewildered tired and yuk jan
