Dear
List
With all due respect
Justine, who would you suggests looks after the women who as was previously
mentioned requests an epidural, or the woman whose obstetric situation makes
an epidural appropriate? The doctors’ maybe?? Doubt it! Yep midwifery is all
that you mention, but it’s not just that. Women who experience abnormal labour
etc are just as entitled to midwifery care as all the others! Whether we like
it or not, some women do not wish to experience the pain of childbirth and who
are we to judge them on that! Not all women have an easy time during labour
even despite the best one on one midwife care!
As a midwife working
with women who sometimes choose this option I like to try and make it as
normal as possible and give them the best chance of a normal birth, that’s why
midwives need to have something to do with epidurals!
Lisa
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Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Epidural
top-up Policy
Gee, why should midwives have
ANYTHING to do with epidurals??
I thought midwifery was about well
women and normal childbirth.
Shouldn’t this be left to the Drs! Perhaps
if midwives said this we would see a change in practice!
Can women in
Parkes access deep warm water for pain relief?
I am astounded that the
majority of women can access Pethidine and an epidural and yet a tiny majority
have access to deep water
(sorry showers don’t count!)
Natural pain
relief, that’s the domian of midwifery
JC
Justine Caines
National
President Maternity Coalition Inc
PO Box 105
MERRIWA NSW
2329
Ph: (02) 65482248
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