Hi The Birthunit where Elle had her watrbirth is a lovely unit. I worked there as a midwife for 3 years in the mid 90's and revisited it last year, to catch up with my old collegue midwives. It is a private hospital. The ladies chose midwifery led care or obstetrician led care . Yehudi Gordon is one of the obstetricians, a lovely man who will go to great lengths to help 'his' ladies acheive a normal birth. I've seen / assisted with so many lovely births including breech and twin births during those 3 years. Quite a few celebrities had their baby here including Jerry Hall just before I left. The pools are oval shaped and hip high so the women could really submerge in them (leaving the front of our shirts totally wet if we did have to help in any way!). The midwives offer continuity of care by deviding themselves in two teams, offering continuity in the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period. At the time we had a birth rate of 200-300 per year, I think it's up to 500 births per year now. Additionally the midwives provide preperation to parenthood classes and postnatal groups which usually start with a baby massage session so the baby are relaxed during the next hour when the mums discuss any issuses that are worrying them. This I would really love to duplicate here in NSW as I feel postnatal support is very fragmented and hard to find. Some women still attended these sessions when their child was nearly a year old! As a midwife working on this unit I could have been able to birth there (for free) but I wanted a home birth, which I had in London. A great experience, and having been labled an elderly primip at the age of 35 I felt very empowered. I did try to have a waterbirth at home with my third but the pool was only about 10cm full when I started pushing, so I never got in. Oh well at least it kept Steve and my mum busy. . . Justine, we are at the brink of introducing a model of continuity of care at Campbelltown hospital. I've written a proposal which has been oked by the management and now needs to be oked at the area meeting on the 7th of July. I'm so excited, it has taken us two years to get this far! Keep your fingers crossed for us! Geesje McGuire ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justine Caines" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "OzMid List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 10:13 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Good news
> Hi all > > Yes I am collecting signatures from clebs/pollies etc and so far we have > only a few, but include Kate Ceberano and others. The hard part is finding > the agent for the celeb. So if anyone wants to help or has a contact for > Elle McPhersons agent!! then e-mail me!! > > Elle had a water birth with the lights down, very Lebeyer > > Justine > > -- > This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. > Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe. -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
