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Dear Diane, after the ICM congress I went to Byron
Bay which is not far from Lismore . To my dissapointment I discovered that Byron
Bay Hospital have two lovely birth rooms but no-one uses it. Of course politics
and lack of Obs given as the reason. But no reason really if you wish to birth
women there, low risk etc and there was a Midwife who was really keen to see the
place used again her name escapes me for the minute but I'm sure if you rang the
place and ask for a midwife there can't be too many in there at the
moment. good luck and enjoy Marijke
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Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 4:28
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Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Northern
Rivers
Hi Diane,
I'm doing a student clinical placement at Lismore
at present in the Birthing Suite.
I live about an hour away and drive there
and back each day - beats flying to Adelaide for weeks at a time.
Lismore
is a typically underfunded teaching institution, doing it's best under the
circumstances. There are about 1300 births per annum, with 4.5 birth rooms and
2 midwives on per shift.
So there is no true facility for woman centred
care, and being a teaching hospital, it's not low intervention either. There
is no specific place to separate low and high risk women or the care they
receive ... the midwives do their best...
Mullumbimby is not a birth
centre - it is not midwife run, but it does only take 'low risk' women. There
is somewhere between 25-33% transfers out of Mullum to other institutions.
There are 4 male GP's who provide care at Mullum, and women can only book in
if under a GP care. There are only about 120 births per year, with midwives
working between the birth rooms (3 of them) and the hospital.
We can
only hope that there may be future case load serices at Lismore, but as I
said, it's a tertiary teaching hospital and there are always lots of young
doctors willing/needing to attend births...
Hope this helps. Feel free
to email me off line if you want to ask more.
Sue
Hi Listers,
Just a question about birthing services in the
Northern Rivers region of NSW. Hoping to buy a property in the hills behind
Lismore in the next year or so, when my son finshes his HSC. Looking like I
will still have to work about three shifts a week for financial security and
also some self employment stuff like lactation services(I am IBCLC) and
calmbirth, which i plan to train in next year.
I am aware that Mullumbimby has a great birth
centre, but we may be living a good 60 mins away from there. I also hope to
move into homebirthing in the future. Is anyone familiar with birthing
services at Lismore? Is it woman centred, low intervention, midwife friendly
care? I am currently a team midwife on the central coast and am hoping to
continue working with low risk women.
Any info would be appreciated as my family and
I are so looking forward to this downshift, we are currently so stressed
with full time work and travelling long distances in opposite directions to
work while our lonely kids wait at home!!
Thanks Di
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