----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 9:21
AM
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Birth &
Head Start
Denise and everyone
Did anyone see the final of Primal Instinct last
night about fears and phobias?
They had a section on how stressed out mother
rats give rise to stressed baby rats - not just through their genes, but
through their 'parenting', as adopted baby rats with low cortisol levels
became more stressed when raised by mum rats with high cortisol
levels.
I know similar reserach has been done by Vivette
Glover in London, and I know that she is of the belief that stressed out women
have stressed babies too ...
Debbie
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:39
PM
Subject: [ozmidwifery] Birth & Head
Start
Dear All
Can you write to Life Matters and recommend
consideration of 1-on-1 midwifery as Evidenced Based best birthing services
which should become part of the Head Start porgram ??
If you missed Life Matters yesterday
see
Even though the ABC said
Over the
last few years, evidence has affirmed the importance of the earliest months
and years of life [even from conception, and earlier in some cases] in
influencing learning, and mental and physical health throughout
life.
that again this program has not made
the leap back to nurturing the mother. It appears to be a another
band-aiding/patching effort like the NSW Families First program
particualrly as it being headed by the same "Commissioner"
It seems Families First did not make that link
though Gillian Calvert addressed the NSW Midwives conference in
2002?
Denise Hynd