----- 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