Thankyou all who replied and sent me info offlist.
I have forwarded the info on to my friend.
What I love about this list is that you can ask a question but then we can
all learn something and it creates really interesting discussion.
Warm Regards
Honey
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From: "Heartlogic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au>
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Cord clamping and waterbirth
Lieve said:
"Cordclamping is an intervention and has first to prove that it is better
than not clamping instead of the other way of thinking".
I agree 100% with you Lieve.
It's interesting isn't it, how interfering is the 'norm' with anything to
do with birth - at least in western societies. I know that PPH is a real
and frightening issue in many third world countries, but what PPH is most
associated with is poverty and poor nutrition and non existent family
planning options. These women are exhausted. As a society/global community
it is important to find ways to address these issues for all women
everywhere so they are well fed, relaxed and valued, having babies that
are wanted so they can birth well and be healthy women and mothers for
themselves and their families.
For women in western countries, many have no idea that they even have a
placenta to give birth to, and so think that birth is over when the baby
is born, thus effectively switching off the hormonal flow for birth. That
switching off the process, coupled with our usual ritualised meddling in
that precious time of face to face, skin to skin, heart to heart intimacy
of mother/baby, interferes with endogenous oxytocin release and baby
perfusion whilst distracting the falling in love process. grrrr
It is perhaps safer to do the active management of third stage thing in
situations when women are kept ignorant about the process because it
requires knowledge and conscious awareness at best and a woman to be
focused on her baby, rather than the kind of thinking that turns the
process off.
It's interesting that when women understand the physiology of the third
phase of the labouring process, they remain very conscious and birth their
placentas very well, usually with minimal blood loss. The midwives at the
Birthing Service have all moved from the fragmented medicalised efficient
factory model of 'delivery' to a one to one, relationship based model of
midwifery practice and over the past year since we started, have all
'fallen in love' (poetic licence!) with undisturbed 'normal' physiology
and are very respectful of women's processes. The midwives take great
care in ensuring women understand and are fully informed of their natural
physiology long before the women are in labour. Many women are choosing
to stay in our beautiful big baths to give birth, so birth through water
is a common event in our service. The PPH rate is very low and the
midwives are fascinated by the threads in women's lives which weave their
experiences.
warmly, Carolyn
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