I sent that story to the list as evidence that there are good
stories around in hospitals and that we as midwives are as responsible for
birth outcomes as the doctors are. I do not want to use a public forum to
judge who is good and who is not (by exculsion) as you can have the most wfo in
Please can Carolyn Hastie email Denise
Hynd
Or some one else give me her email
Thank you Denise Hynd
Dear Barb and others,
Would it not be worthwhile asking the federal Labour and Democrat health
spokesperson to encourage with Kay Patterson to acknowledge midwives and
maternity consumers have the current highest interest in the PI situation by
having them at this summit??
This can be simply done
Joy you raised some very interesting questions. Firstly the numbers of women
included in the trial were actually quite small (130 in each arm), so the
percentages translate to even smaller numbers (the 75% of moxa treated women
with cepalic fetuses at term reprsents 98 women and the 62.3% of wo
Hello Oz midders,
I have been following the thread of turning breeches with moxibustion with
interest. Recently we had a woman in our practice with a frank breech at
33 weeks. I tried moxibustion at 36 weeks. Baby didn't turn and she had a
c-section. This was the first time I had tried moxi
a friend sent this to me she had come across it, yours in midwifery pete
malavisi
The Struggle Inside The Cocoon
I thought I'd share a wonderful little story with you today...
"A young man was attending a university, studying to become a naturalist.
One lovely spring day during his first year,
Dear List,
Maternity Coalition has been advised by someone working closely with
government on the PI issue that midwives are not being considered as part of
the AHMAC Working Group on PI report for the next Health minister's meeting
(due in May 2002). This is despite the referral of this issue t
> From a plain midwife who is very reluctant to interfere with the natural
> > process.
> > Joy Johnston
> >
> I guess the problem is that if we leave it to the babies to turn if they
> choose and they don't, most women are left with a very unnatural pathway. ie
> C/S. MM
>
>Babies can, and hav
Then my visitor to the class arrived - a new mum and her gorgeous
8 week oldbaby - and took out her tube of Lansino and told them that it
was essentialand that it had saved her nipples and she used it all the
time
I have used it and for me it wasn't much help. I had the joy of
nipple va
