Jackie, you asked:
< Do the homebirth midwives on the list agree, or do you experience
fistula?s often
in your clients?>
NO! Fistulas (recto-vaginal, in which faeces and gas escape into the
vagina, or vesico-vaginal, in which urine escapes into the vagina) are
usually the result of severe tea
dear all,
I am a student midwife, who spent 3 years
undertaking a nursing degree in order to become a midwife, and now another 1
year at uni to actually become a midwife.
I feel very unfortunate that part of our course
does not enforce or encourage student midwives to undertake some prac
Title: Re: ANZ college of Anaesthetists statement!
Dear Denise
Thanks for sharing this with us all ... It will make great reading in my client’s fact sheets related to pain management in labour. My clients love to know it’s not just me prattling on about the dangers of using drugs during labour.
Fyi - [midwife] has been added by me, and is a correct reading of this
material, even if the midwife has not qualified in nursing.
This may appear very a sell-out to nursing to some - I'm sorry if you think
that. I believe that it gives midwives an opportunity to practise
midwifery in any sett
For my 4th child I trusted my body and chose a home birth, however, the 'ol
bod didn't cooperate, a nasty dose of PE and HELLPS and my babe was born by
Csection at 31 weeks.
HOWEVER, I had CHOSEN
I chose who were my home birth attendants in additional to hubby (midwife
and aspiring midwife) a
Title: Re: sanctimonious pretentiousness
If they didn't there would be no need for Catherine Hamlins Fistula Hospital in Addis Abbaba,
correct me if I am wrong.. female genital mutilation a factor here??
... And delays in treatment/receiving help. I have heard reports that the women with fis
Dysfunctional behaviour to me is recognising a problem and going about
solving it the wrong way. I know there are terrible problems in the hospital
system, my wife and I were also the victims of an absent minded pigheaded
obs. however to try and change it from the outside through the quotation of
And re the recent discussion what is a midwife.
I have stayed out of this thread (so far). Personal issues have kept me
distracted.
When I read the message about Claire Brassard I felt grieved at the loss of
someone who seems to have the midwife's heart and skill, without the
registration. I
Dear Rhonda and listers
it all depends who is on sometimes hospital mws are
wonderful often and I go to hospitals frequently.
BUT
I am fresh from a hospital birth a birth that was
very enpowering for the woman ,a learning experience for the husband and
obstetrician and the pits for me the
Thanks Lois!
Love Sam
>From: "Lois Wattis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "sally westbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: midwifery models
>Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 09:02:02 +0800
>
>Hi Sally - just responding to what you've written about midwives working
>towards change withi
Title: Re: sanctimonious pretentiousness
Dear All
You know there are times when I get tired of hearing all this sanctimonious pretensiousness about women trusting their bodies to birth etc etc. For generations our bodies have been letting us down. If they didn't there would be no need for Ca
Just goes to show everything is political now.
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