Dear Andrea, the role of second midwife in our practice here in W.A.
is to be a stand -in for the primary midwife at anytime that she is
unavailable to the woman. If we attend a birth as 2nd M/W it is
because the Primary M/W has needed support for some reason... fatigue, intuition
saying "
In the 2nd last line I meant DEBRIEF not bebrief.. MM
- Original Message -
From:
Mary
Murphy
To: Andrea Bilcliff ; Ozmidwifery Mailing List
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 4:21
PM
Subject: Re: Second Midwife Role
Dear Andrea, the role of second midwife in o
Hiya.
Just wandering what you all think
about direct entry miwife degrees…as opposed to doing it postgrad with
nursing background.Regards, Macha.
Dear List,
Following our lobbying of the Canberra Times deputy editor last week, they
put an opinion piece in Saturday's paper (19 Jan). Written by the health
reporter Danielle Cronin. The article is very lazily written - basically
reprinted every word from the Munro resignation article of the
Title: Calculating savings from midwife led care
Denise,
The figures quoted were worked out by Justine and I using a range of sources (including information provided by Sally Tracy from AMAP). I am happy to email you the page we used to estimate the ACT figures as an attachment. Also happy to
Soldier on, Barb and Co. Remember the effect drops of water has on stone
(eventually). Best wishes, Lois Wattis
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From: "Vernon at Stringybark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "ozmid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 7:12 AM
Subject: Canberra Times strikes ag
In a message dated 21/01/02 10:14:01 AM AUS Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The figures quoted were worked out by Justine and I using a range of sources (including information provided by Sally Tracy from AMAP). I am happy to email you the page we used to estimate the ACT figure
Hello Macha, I'm all for it. I
believe B.Mid will create a group of professionals dedicated from
the start to midwifery care, hopefully without the medical bias
so many of us have had to struggle with and against through our nursing
careers. The former entry route to midwifery needs to be
Title: Calculating savings from midwife led care
Dear Barb
Thank you for that I agree you probably have under
estimated particularly as you many interventions have complications and even
with out them many have extras like the obs who put the c/s women on a/b
and many then have secondary inf
Title: Re: Calculating savings from midwife led care
Average cost of a caesarean section is $3,000 for the surgery, plus $500 per day for hospital stay. Caesarean usually requires 5 days post op stay so that is $2,500 for the stay. total then for casesarean of $5,500 per woman. Multiply this
Title: A request...
Is there a midwife in Qld that handled a recent homebirth that ended in a hospital caesarean on the List? Please contact me privately so I can have a chat with you.
Birthing Beautifully,
Jackie Mawson.
Convenor of Birthrites: Healing After Caesarean Inc.
Visit our Website
Hello Macha - I too think it is a choice we have
needed to have in this counrty for a long time, and in a way wish I was able to
do the course NOW because of the way in which it will be structured and the
content it will have (I grew up on the 200 hour curriculum which was very
medically ori
Title: Re: midwifery resolution
I think that may be a way forward too, but until we
are able to get insurance, it won't happen. I can't see corporations
insuring us!
Regards, Lynne
- Original Message -
From:
Vernon at
Stringybark
To: ozmid
Sent: Friday, January 18,
Title: FW: Calculating savings from midwife led care
Dear List,
A minor amendment to the calculations outlined below - the length of stay I cited of 4 days in hospital is the ACT average not the national average. ACT has a high average length of stay due to growing numbers of women opting for
Title: Re: update on ACT lobbying
Thanks Born.
It would be nice to have the 'play with the toddler and baby fairy too - that would assuage my guilt more. I'm sure that the first real picture my toddler draws is going to be of mummy with a phone plugged on her ear or a keyboard attached to her
Title: FW: Calculating savings from midwife led care
Denise,
Perhaps Sally Tracy's paper on 'costing the cascade' will give us some figures to work with on this. But in the meantime it doesn't really matter since we can still say credibly to the media and governments that they stand to save A
>Hi all,
>
>I was just mentally going through caesarean figures for WA. In the
>1999/2000
>financial year 24,943 women delivered, 5,895 (23.6%) by caesarean section.
>Of these 3,356 (56.9% of all caesareans) were elective and 2,539 (43.1% of
>all caesareans) were emergency.
>
>So if we calcul
Title: Re: Calculating savings from midwife led care
Jackie,
Don't just dream! Write a press release!! organise a meeting with your dept of health - find the contacts of people in the dept who support the CMP at Freemantle and put the case for them to expand the program in a major way and sti
- Original Message -
From: Steve & Janine
Clark
To: L
& D Staff
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: direct entry midwife degrees
Hi Lynne,
As far as I am aware (about to start BMid), if we
want to go on to get the nursing degree afterwards, it will involve 3 mo
> Only if those women choose not to birth at all. The savings are in the
> difference in cost, not the total cost.
Oops! Very true Kirsten! My head don't always work good before my morning
coffee... So, if they all managed natural births with no complications (I
really am dreaming, hey?) then th
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