Re: PUPPS
Title: Re: PUPPS Hi Sonya I was a doula, recently, for a woman who had PUPPS. Her symptoms were particularly bad in the last few weeks of pregnancy and she had the baby 10 days before due date. Her rashes, blotches and itchiness diminished after the birth ( but she was taking medication too) and were almost gone at 3 weeks after birth. Not one week. This was her second child. Cheers Margie From: Barry MacGregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 12:32:26 +1000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: re: PUPPS Thanks everyone for your replies. All my lady's liver function tests have come back normal, however she had a haemoglobin test that went from 112 in one week to 90 the next. Don't know if this is related or not. I have asked all the senior midwives and doctors about PUPPS and all have said that it spontaneously resolves within a week after the birth and that it affects first time mothers only. They have all been unable to direct me towards any literature on the subject like what is the cause. Thanks again Sonja
Re: Our babies
Joy, Sally, the twins and family My thoughts and well wishes are with you all. love Margie From: Joy Cocks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Joy Cocks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 19:24:04 +1000 To: Ozmidwifery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Our babies Hello all, Just a quick message. Please.your thoughts and prayers with my Sally who has been transferred to the RWH in Melbourne today with ruptured membranes, no contractions at this stage. 27/40 twins, so we really want to grow these babies a bit bigger if we can. Love, Joy Joy Cocks RN (Div 1) RM CBE IBCLC BRIGHT Vic 3741 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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.
Re: nipple rings
Hi Megan There was a lot of mail about this quite a while ago. You could check the archives. However Rhonda at [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be a great person to contact. She used to be very present on ozmid but last message I saw from her was mid February. Not sure if she's just lurking or off the list now. Margie From: Larry Megan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:23:55 +1030 To: ozmidwifery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: nipple rings A bit of a different question, after listening to a story on radio about piercings I was wondering about breastfeeding and nipple rings. Does anyone know if this piercing has any effect on feeding? Does the milk come out through the holes, etc. Not thinking of getting one, just intrigued. Cheers Megan Resch -- 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.
Re: [birthnews] Intro
Hi Denise I hope you haven't already withdrawn from Ozmid. We're all entitled to a rave sometimes and I enjoy your input and your 'slip-up' has just led to me looking at birthnews for the first time, going to S Kitzinger's homepage and on and on through links. Very interesting browse after a few days camping with no internet access. So thanks. And stay on. Margie From: Denise Hynd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:14:25 +0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fw: [birthnews] Intro Dear Michelle I remember years ago assisting with several circumcisions a day also having my tonsils out when I started getting bouts of tonsilitis as did many children. But these things do not happen today because the opponeents to the wide spread performance of these procedures started the debate and raised the issue of how much it was costing us as a community and the names of the children who died as a result of questionable/unnecessary tonsilectomies (Matthew Davey in Manly??). I see the current state of normal healthy women going to a specialist doctor for a normal healthy life event and having questionable, unnecessary and dangerous for some (I have seen a woman in intensive care with a subdural heamatoma and many with headaches form dural taps via an epiduarl for naomal labour) in the same light or rather lack of light, education as you put it! Look at our bottle feeding and breast feeding rates and the full history of their cycles!! These practices (circumcision, tonsilectomy, bottle feeding epiduarls and doctors for normal birth) are influenced more by misinformation, myth and fashions of our cultures. Eighty years ago the wealthy women went to doctors and got twilight sleep whilst the poorer stayed home and had midwives. Th larger numbers of the latter who died in child birth were attributed to the poor care of midwives rather than their poor housing, diets, and health so we built more hospitals and educated more doctors and brought the midwives in under both. Thus we have many midwives who like many doctors do not know how to help a woman deal with the pain and time in labour with out getting rid of the pain and not appreciate the risks we run in doing so, who do not recognise the psycho social aspects and influences on labour including Fear!! But for me the real fear is the risks they and we run in not understanding the full potential of all we do and say around childbearing couples, what we accept as informed choice, informed by who and what??. Denise - Original Message - From: Michelle McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 7:50 AM Subject: RE: [birthnews] Intro Hi, as this is my first reply I will intoduce myself. My name is Michelle McKenzie and I also work in a Private hospital.I have worked in this hospital for 10 years. I co-ordinate the prenatal education in our hospital. I have two children both of whom I gave birth to at the Sydney Adventist Hospital under a private obstetrician. With both of my children, I laboured and delivered the way I wanted to and with both I had a normal delivery with no drugs. I agree with kath in that I believe the clients who choose our hospital and their own private obstetrician have made their own choice on the type of childbirth they prefer. We do not push them into having an epidural rather they come to us demanding one the minute they arrive in delivery suite. The clients we see are very well educated and informed on the choices available to them. I do not believe I am a 'glorified nurse' because I have chosen to work in a private hospital. I love my work as a midwife and respect the choice the client has made to see a private obstetrician and come to a private hospital, but am alittle saddened at the lack of support from other colleuges who work in the public system or as independent practitioners. Michelle McKenzie Midwife, Nurse and Prenatal Educator, Maternity Unit, Sydney Adventist Hospital 9487 9455 or 9487 9111 (page 042) -Original Message- From: Mike Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 25 January 2002 6:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [birthnews] Intro Hi What a can of worms!!! I work in a private hospital have felt all the emotions Julie describes sickened, shocked distressed disappointed disillusioned and downright depressed. The challenge is to enable as many women as pos to experience a drug free natural labour and that is some challenge considering the forces working in the opposite direction! The majority of women who attend the CBE classes have access to all the info and options and are choosing their birthing place so I think their choices should be respected and to facilitate what is happening rather than what you think should be happening(Tao Te Ching) Cheers Kath Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Joanne
Reflexology
Information on reflexology and other "complimentary" practices such as applied kinesiology,iris diagnosis, Bach flowers, homeopathy, accupuncture), including the results of clinical trials and the relevance ofstandardsand training promulgatedby industry groups such as the PRAcan be obtained from www.quackwatch.com Bruce Ford
Re: diabetes and transverse
Thanks everyone who has commented on these issues. I have no previous experience in either situation so the questions back and forth give me a better idea of what is common management and what is challenged by some in this group. And what might be worth a try by the women concerned. I'll be in a better position to advocate for them if and when required. Margie From: Lynne Staff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 20:59:09 +1000 To: Grant and Louise [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: re:diabetes Why are they induced? - Original Message - From: Grant and Louise [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ozmidwifery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 8:24 PM Subject: re:diabetes We used to have insulin and glucose infusions on all our insulin dependant women, but now they just seem to have their usual dose of insulin in the morning before a usual breakfast, (are induced at or before term) and have 1-2 hourly BSLs during active labour, eat and drink as other labouring women. Baby needs to be fed early (as is normal!) and 3 x BSLs above the minimum level with regular feeding. hope this helps Louise Dimmock McLeod RN Midwife IBCLC The cure for all things is salt water - Sweat, tears, or the sea. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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. -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe.
Re: transverse lie
Thanks for your response Carole. Sorry not to have given more info. Yes it is first baby and yes time of conception is a certainty. She is in her 40's and has had previous uterine surgery but placenta is high. Does you comment about babies changing at last minute in multigravida mean you have not seen it/it is uncommon in primips? I did suggest visualisation as well as journalling and 'talking to' baby and it seemed a new approach taken with interest. She says she does not feel ready to have the baby yet - but with a caesarean date proposed and the cord prolapse risk foremost mentioned she is worried. She would like to wait longer but what if the membranes ruptured and then...she felt she jeopardised the baby. Thanks Margie From: Carole Gilmour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 19:19:48 +1000 To: Bruce Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: transverse lie I'm not sure of the success rate of external version(ECV) but I'd certainly give it a try. Get your client to try some positive visualisation of the baby in the correct position and her having a normal birth. Is she sure of her dates? The baby seems a bit small (not that ultrasounds are necessarily totally reliable) If this is a consideration then waiting a bit longer might be all that is required. I assume they have excluded placenta praevia as a cause. Is this her first baby? I have seen multigravida women where the baby corrects itself at the last minute. I have also seen ECV followed immediately by a controlled artificial rupture of membranes and induction of labour, but again only in multigravida women. It would certainly be worthwhile your client exploring different options with a consultant obstetrician not just the registrar. Good luck I hope this baby decides to correct itself before the interventions begin. Carole - Original Message - From: Bruce Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 4:10 PM Subject: transverse lie Hi list Another woman I just met with view to being support person at her birth has a baby in transverse position. She's now 38 weeks and baby ( by ultrasound) is about 5lb. Registrar suggests C-section just short of due date. She recognises C-sec may be necessary but is worried about when. Prior to due date or later. Any value in labour starting - but weighed up against risk of cord prolapse? How big a risk is this statistically - I can't find this in texts. What chance of this baby still turning itself? She has been using moxa with no change? Is external version done - what success? Any comments and information much appreciated. Margie -- 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.
transverse lie
Hi list Another woman I just met with view to being support person at her birth has a baby in transverse position. She's now 38 weeks and baby ( by ultrasound) is about 5lb. Registrar suggests C-section just short of due date. She recognises C-sec may be necessary but is worried about when. Prior to due date or later. Any value in labour starting - but weighed up against risk of cord prolapse? How big a risk is this statistically - I can't find this in texts. What chance of this baby still turning itself? She has been using moxa with no change? Is external version done - what success? Any comments and information much appreciated. Margie -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe.
