Thank you Julie that was very helpful!!! I will let you know my final 'plan'.
It is interesting though, how birth is viewed differently everywhere, what a great experience for the women to hear about birth in other places.
:-)
Katrina On 18/03/2005, at 2:19 PM, Julie Clarke wrote:
Hi Katrina
What a great question to have been asked... I imagine it could stimulate the
thinking of many of the students into wondering just what birth is like all
around the world... there is often the arrogance in the West that
westernized countries are so much more "civilized and safer" but this is not
necessarily the case.
Recently, I had a woman in class say "Thank goodness we are all birthing in
Australia" amazingly I also had a Dutch woman in the group and I turned to
her and asked her if she had any knowledge on what birth was like in
Holland. Fortunately she did and she proceeded to tell the rest of the group
that it would be expected they would birth at home unless there were medical
reasons requiring hospitalization, government funded homebirth was normal
and encouraged, and apart from being provided with a midwife they would also
be provided with a helper to assist with light housework duties, visitors,
other children etc. The group was amazed to discover that another country
provided more for women in their phase of life compared to what they were
going to be provided with here.
I would recommend visiting a midwifery group practice in New Zealand, then
perhaps Sinai hospital (where the Hollywood starts go), then any one of the
hospitals shown on Foxtel's Maternity Ward, perhaps Chicago to view how the
underprivileged are treated in the USA, if you have time head south to for
some lovely waterbirths at the Andaluz Waterbirth Centre in Guatemala, then
off to Europe for further contrasts at the University Hospital Vienna,
Austria to visit Midwife: Karin Berghammer, OB&GYN: Prof Regine Ahner.
After that of course you couldn't miss out on a visit to (author and
anthropologist) Sheila Kitzinger in England, refer to her book Rediscovering
Birth to help you with this project question, and Janet Balaskas author of
New Active Birth in London. Perhaps Elle MacPherson (waterbirth mum) would
be happy to be interviewed by you too.
You might even like to pop over to Scotland to visit a dear friend of mine
who is a midwifery student - who will gladly fill you in on the details of
the "sausage factory style" maternity services they have available for
women.
I wish you all the best with your work Katrina, Warm hug Julie
Julie Clarke CBE Independent Childbirth and Parenting Educator HypnoBirthing (R) Practitioner ACE Grad Dip Supervisor NACE Advanced Educator and Trainer NACE National Journal Editor Transition into Parenthood Sessions 9 Withybrook Place Sylvania NSW 2224 Telephone 9544 6441 Mobile: 0401 2655 30 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] visit Julie's website: www.transitionintoparenthood.com.au
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Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] sharing 'different' info
Hi everyone Just a different question for you... I am doing an assignment for one of my subjects at uni, and we have to plan an 'International Study Tour'! Not the usual sort of question we get, but one that intrigues me!!! I have started to plan it, but was wondering if anyone had any ideas on places or people or conferences that would be interesting/ lifechanging etc etc that I can 'plan' to go and see??????
Thanks in advance Katrina :-)
On 17/03/2005, at 2:39 PM, Kerreen Reiger wrote:
Hi all, In the spirit of the recent discussion re importance of sharing information concerning mid- and women- friendly models of care, I have just noticed information about a Canadian initiative funded by Canadian federal gov't and bringing professional and consumer stakeholders together. See Multidisciplinary Collaborative Primary Maternity Care Project on google, and/or http://sogc.medical.org/collaborative/index_e.shtml
They had a conference in Vancouver a few weeks ago and I'll be asking
to
talk with some of the people involved when I am in Toronto in early
June. I'll tell you what I find out then but in the meantime, it's a
useful initiative for us all to know about and use in lobbying efforts.
Cheers
Kerreen
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