[ozmidwifery] Article about BF and reaction to stress
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/126/116188?printing=true Breastfed Babies Less Stressed Later? British Study: Children of Divorce Less Anxious if Breastfed as Infants ByMirandaHittiWebMD Medical News Reviewed ByLouiseChang,MDon Wednesday, August 02, 2006 Aug. 2, 2006 -- Breastfed babies appear to handle stressstress better a decade later than their bottle-fed peers. The researchers who report that finding in the Archives of Disease in Childhood's Aug. 3 advance online edition aren't ready to give breastfeedingbreastfeeding sole credit. It's possible breastfed babies have other advantages that help them cope with stress, note Scott Montgomery, BSc, PhD, and colleagues in the journal. Montgomery's team studied more than 8,900 children born in the U.K. in 1970. The children's moms were interviewed soon after giving birth, and again when the kids were 5 and 10 years old. When the kids were 5, the mothers were asked if they had breastfed their child, even for a few days, with or without additional bottle-feeding. When the children were 10, the moms were asked if they had gotten divorced in the past five years. Also, the 10-year-olds' teachers rated their in-school anxiety level. Kids at Age 10 Most of the 10-year-olds' parents hadn't divorced, but about 12% had done so within the past five years. Children from divorced families were more likely to be anxious, according to their teachers, than those with intact families. But among those whose parents had divorced, the 10-year-olds breastfed as babies were less likely to be anxious than their bottle-fed peers, based on the teacher ratings. Adjusting for other factors -- such as the mother's age and education level, smoking during pregnancypregnancy, and family social class -- didn't change the results, the study shows. The researchers also grouped the breastfed children into those who had been breastfed for up to one month, for over one month and up to three months, and over three months. How long the breastfeeding lasted didn't seem to matter when it came to lowering anxiety levels in the children from divorced homes. Breastfeeding "may be associated with lower levels of anxiety among children who have had the potentially stressful experience of parental divorce," write Montgomery and colleagues. The researchers aren't sure how to explain the pattern. Breastfeeding has well-known benefits, such as letting mothers and babies bond. Then again, breastfeeding might be a marker for other maternal or family traits that help kids handle stress, the researchers note. Breastfeeding wasn't linked to divorce risk, the researchers add. SOURCES: Montgomery, S. Archives of Disease in Childhood, Aug. 3, 2006; advance online edition. News release, BMJ Specialist Journals.
RE: [ozmidwifery] trauma birth stress
Title: Message If anyone is interested in a seminar on birth trauma, please contact Ursula Yee at [EMAIL PROTECTED]or Jenny Gamble at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Both are based in Brisbane. cheers Cas -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julie ClarkeSent: Friday, 17 October 2003 2:56 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] trauma birth stress Hi Id be interested in your comments on what subjects have been taught in the Bmid and what subjects you feel you would have liked / needed more on? Thanks Julie Julie Clarke CBE Childbirth and Parenting Educator ACE Grad-Dip Supervisor NACE Advanced Educator and Trainer Transition into Parenthood 9 Withybrook Pl Sylvania NSW 2224. T. (02) 9544 6441 F. (02) 9544 9257 Mobile 0401 2655 30 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.transitionintoparenthood.com.au -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amanda Kevin GommersSent: Friday, 17 October 2003 1:50 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] trauma birth stress Jen, I'm a 1st yr student at ACU. Don't know if this is so relevant, but one of my FTJ's had an awful experience when her 1st son was born - he was diagnosed very quickly with Downs Syndrome, and she felt that the midwives didn't know how to cope with this, and left her totally alone. This gave her a very negative perspective on her birthing experience.She is very keen to pass this information on to new midwife students so that they learn what the woman goes through. Already I have investigated the possibility of her coming in to talk to our group next year. Amanda - Original Message - From: Jen Semple To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 4:18 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery] trauma birth stress Cas, What a valuable thing your group was able to contribute to those mid. students! I'm a 2nd year BMid student in Melbourne while we have touched on trauma birth stress, we haven't heard it from the persective of the individual her experience. Any idea if there's such a group in Melbourne who might be interested? Cheers, JenWayne and Caroline McCullough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We did a talk for a bunch of midwifery students on PTSD at Griffith Unilast Friday and some of them were really shocked at the stories weshared. It was a good talk and they seemed to get the picture.Cheers,Cas.www.casmccullough.com[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Search- Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search
Re: [ozmidwifery] trauma birth stress
Jen, I'm a 1st yr student at ACU. Don't know if this is so relevant, but one of my FTJ's had an awful experience when her 1st son was born - he was diagnosed very quickly with Downs Syndrome, and she felt that the midwives didn't know how to cope with this, and left her totally alone. This gave her a very negative perspective on her birthing experience.She is very keen to pass this information on to new midwife students so that they learn what the woman goes through. Already I have investigated the possibility of her coming in to talk to our group next year. Amanda - Original Message - From: Jen Semple To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 4:18 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery] trauma birth stress Cas, What a valuable thing your group was able to contribute to those mid. students! I'm a 2nd year BMid student in Melbourne while we have touched on trauma birth stress, we haven't heard it from the persective of the individual her experience. Any idea if there's such a group in Melbourne who might be interested? Cheers, JenWayne and Caroline McCullough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We did a talk for a bunch of midwifery students on PTSD at Griffith Unilast Friday and some of them were really shocked at the stories weshared. It was a good talk and they seemed to get the picture.Cheers,Cas.www.casmccullough.com[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Search- Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search
RE: [ozmidwifery] trauma birth stress
Hi Id be interested in your comments on what subjects have been taught in the Bmid and what subjects you feel you would have liked / needed more on? Thanks Julie Julie Clarke CBE Childbirth and Parenting Educator ACE Grad-Dip Supervisor NACE Advanced Educator and Trainer Transition into Parenthood 9 Withybrook Pl Sylvania NSW 2224. T. (02) 9544 6441 F. (02) 9544 9257 Mobile 0401 2655 30 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.transitionintoparenthood.com.au -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amanda Kevin Gommers Sent: Friday, 17 October 2003 1:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] trauma birth stress Jen, I'm a 1st yr student at ACU. Don't know if this is so relevant, but one of my FTJ's had an awful experience when her 1st son was born - he was diagnosed very quickly with Downs Syndrome, and she felt that the midwives didn't know how to cope with this, and left her totally alone. This gave her a very negative perspective on her birthing experience.She is very keen to pass this information on to new midwife students so that they learn what the woman goes through. Already I have investigated the possibility of her coming in to talk to our group next year. Amanda - Original Message - From: Jen Semple To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 4:18 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery] trauma birth stress Cas, What a valuable thing your group was able to contribute to those mid. students! I'm a 2nd year BMid student in Melbourne while we have touched on trauma birth stress, we haven't heard it from the persective of the individual her experience. Any idea if there's such a group in Melbourne who might be interested? Cheers, Jen Wayne and Caroline McCullough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We did a talk for a bunch of midwifery students on PTSD at Griffith Uni last Friday and some of them were really shocked at the stories we shared. It was a good talk and they seemed to get the picture. Cheers, Cas. www.casmccullough.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search
[ozmidwifery] trauma birth stress
Cas, What a valuable thing your group was able to contribute to those mid. students! I'm a 2nd year BMid student in Melbourne while we have touched on trauma birth stress, we haven't heard it from the persective of the individual her experience. Any idea if there's such a group in Melbourne who might be interested? Cheers, JenWayne and Caroline McCullough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We did a talk for a bunch of midwifery students on PTSD at Griffith Unilast Friday and some of them were really shocked at the stories weshared. It was a good talk and they seemed to get the picture.Cheers,Cas.www.casmccullough.com[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search
[ozmidwifery] Stress!!!
Found this in our local motorcycle newsletter, and thought you'd enjoy a = giggle A Prayer for the Stressed Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I cannot accept, the wisdom to hide the bodies of those People I had to kill today = because they pissed me off. And also, help me to be careful of the toes I step on today as they may = be connected to the ass that I may have to kiss tomorrow. Help me always to give 100% at work 12% on Monday, 23% on Tuesday, 40 % on Wed, 20% on Thurs and 5% on = Friday. And help me to remember . when I am having a really bad day, and it = seems people are really trying to piss me off,=20 that it takes 42 muscles to frown=20 and only 4 to extend my middle finger =20 Amen. --=_NextPart_000_0009_01C29E2B.BF306F40 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN HTMLHEAD META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3Dtext/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1 META content=3DMSHTML 5.50.4134.600 name=3DGENERATOR STYLE/STYLE /HEAD BODY bgColor=3D#ff DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2Found this in our local motorcycle = newsletter, and=20 thought you'd enjoy a giggle/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2A Prayer for the Stressed/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2Grant me the serenity to accept the = things I cannot=20 change,/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2The courage to change the things I = cannot=20 accept,/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2amp; the wisdom to hide the bodies of = those People=20 I had to kill today because they pissed me off./FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2And also, help me to be careful of the = toes I step=20 on today as they may be connected /FONTFONT face=3DArial size=3D2to = the ass that=20 I may have to kiss tomorrow./FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2Help me always to give 100% at=20 work/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D212% on Monday, 23% on Tuesday, 40 % on = Wed, 20% on=20 Thurs and 5% on Friday./FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2And help me to remember . when I am = having a=20 really bad day, and it seems people are really trying to piss me off,=20 /FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2that it takes 42 muscles to frown = /FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2and only 4 to extend my middle finger=20 nbsp;nbsp; /FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2Amen./FONT/DIV/BODY/HTML --=_NextPart_000_0009_01C29E2B.BF306F40-- -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe.
Re: [ozmidwifery] Stress!!!
Hi Laraine, Thanks - its one of those nights - Saturday - NO-Sleep over ( 3 eleven year old boys/ sleeping bags on lounge floor/ videos/pillow fights - noisy of course!) a laugh helps! This one applies so well to me!! 'And also, help me to be careful of the toes I step on today as they may = be connected to the ass that I may have to kiss tomorrow' Pinky - Original Message - From: Laraine Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 11:07 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery] Stress!!! Found this in our local motorcycle newsletter, and thought you'd enjoy a = giggle A Prayer for the Stressed Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I cannot accept, the wisdom to hide the bodies of those People I had to kill today = because they pissed me off. And also, help me to be careful of the toes I step on today as they may = be connected to the ass that I may have to kiss tomorrow. Help me always to give 100% at work 12% on Monday, 23% on Tuesday, 40 % on Wed, 20% on Thurs and 5% on = Friday. And help me to remember . when I am having a really bad day, and it = seems people are really trying to piss me off,=20 that it takes 42 muscles to frown=20 and only 4 to extend my middle finger =20 Amen. --=_NextPart_000_0009_01C29E2B.BF306F40 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN HTMLHEAD META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3Dtext/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1 META content=3DMSHTML 5.50.4134.600 name=3DGENERATOR STYLE/STYLE /HEAD BODY bgColor=3D#ff DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2Found this in our local motorcycle = newsletter, and=20 thought you'd enjoy a giggle/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2A Prayer for the Stressed/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2Grant me the serenity to accept the = things I cannot=20 change,/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2The courage to change the things I = cannot=20 accept,/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2amp; the wisdom to hide the bodies of = those People=20 I had to kill today because they pissed me off./FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2And also, help me to be careful of the = toes I step=20 on today as they may be connected /FONTFONT face=3DArial size=3D2to = the ass that=20 I may have to kiss tomorrow./FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2Help me always to give 100% at=20 work/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D212% on Monday, 23% on Tuesday, 40 % on = Wed, 20% on=20 Thurs and 5% on Friday./FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2And help me to remember . when I am = having a=20 really bad day, and it seems people are really trying to piss me off,=20 /FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2that it takes 42 muscles to frown = /FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2and only 4 to extend my middle finger=20 nbsp;nbsp; /FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2Amen./FONT/DIV/BODY/HTML --=_NextPart_000_0009_01C29E2B.BF306F40-- -- 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.
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I heard that the book launch was a fabulous night I was at a birth but it wasn't the same The room is warm the fire crackling the woman wide eyed and almost luminous in the half light .Her man is supporting her as she births her baby. She cries out in her native tongue and the midwife kneels at her feet; the baby is born the placenta arrives the family rest and eat This IS A MIRICLE WITTNESSED BY THE MIDWIVES MANY TIMES BUT SOMETHING IS CLOUDING THE JOY. the midwives embrace and say I am so glad every thing went well. is this fear or stress whatever it takes away from at least my practise. Thankyou to all persons working for women' chioces in childbirth .jan ireland
shifts/caseloads/stress
Dear Kathleen and list members It's a really important point you've made Kathleen. I don't think you can compare the horrible stress of shift work with the occupational autonomy associated with caseload practice. The only research I know of that looks at this is Jane Sandall's work where she describes how occupational autonomy, good support from other group practice midwives and at home, frequent meetings and being able to develop meaningful relationships with women are the key factors in midwife satisfaction and successful models. In the UK the models that failed were those where midwives were expected to 'follow women through' and work shifts. (If anyone wants the references for Jane's work please let me know) I summarised how we avoided 'burn out' in our group practice in 'Caseload practice: a recipe for burn out? British Journal of Midwifery Vol 4 No.6 June 1966 pp329-330. My impression is that midwives who've worked in caseload practice find it really hard to contemplate going back to working on 'shifts'. Cheers Nicky Nicky Leap, Senior Research Fellow, Midwifery The Flinders University of South Australia, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001 Tel: (08) 8201 3442 Fax: (08) 8201 3410 Home: 'Cennednyss', Summertown, SA 5141 Tel/Fax: (08) 8390 1069 -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe.
