RE: [ozmidwifery] Poster...for better birth!

2002-09-11 Thread Tracey Askew
Title: Message Thanks Vicki, Would love to see it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Great effort! Tracey -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vicki ChanSent: Wednesday, 11 September 2002 4:12 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

Re: [ozmidwifery] workshops

2002-09-11 Thread Joy Cocks
Hi Pinky, Could I have details of your workshop/talk in Albury please? Thanks, Joy Joy Cocks RN (Div 1) RM CBE IBCLCBRIGHT Vic 3741 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Pinky McKay To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 11 September 2002 14:32

RE: [ozmidwifery] Poster...for better birth!

2002-09-11 Thread Vance Edwina
Title: Message Dear Vicki, I would love an email copy to peruse and please sent cost info too. I have just the place to hang it! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Edwina -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vicki Chan Sent:

Re: [ozmidwifery] training of Ambo's

2002-09-11 Thread Claudia van Duyn
I train the Ambo volunteers here in thewest - as I am passionate in home birthing, not only are theyall well versed in home birthing practices and have also seen these techniques in practice - two born half way to the major hospital, BUT they all are advocates for natural birthing. As a voli

[ozmidwifery] NCAD

2002-09-11 Thread Tom, Tania and Sam Smallwood
Just wanted to let everyone know that the picnic in Rymill Park today, to mark NCAD was fantastic. Thanks to Jo, Carolyn and Emma for your ongoing dedication and hard work with CARES. Well done!! Tania

Re: [ozmidwifery] Poster...for better birth!

2002-09-11 Thread Zena Grant Coote
Title: Message Vicki, (re poster) My email address would be helpful sorry, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thanks Zena - Original Message - From: Vicki Chan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 3:42 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery]

Re: [ozmidwifery] Poster...for better birth!

2002-09-11 Thread Zena Grant Coote
Title: Message Dear vicki, Would love to see a copy of the poster. With thanks.. Zena Coote, Clinical Midwife, Delivery Suite, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide. Please Email my home. - Original Message - From: Vance Edwina To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ozmidwifery] Andrea R!

2002-09-11 Thread Vicki Chan
Title: Message AndreaI think everyone on ozmid want to see this poster...is an attachment permissable??? Vicki -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kirsten LerstrømSent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 8:52 AMTo: [EMAIL

RE: [ozmidwifery] Sacred Singing

2002-09-11 Thread Vicki Chan
Title: Message Hi Edwina... your email didnt get through til tonight (11/9) so too late for your meeting but I'll post some off in the morning. Cheers, Vicki -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Vance EdwinaSent: Tuesday,

[ozmidwifery] Poster

2002-09-11 Thread Vicki Chan
Title: Message Omigosh! I've been overwhelmed by the reponses to the poster...There is easy a hundred here already.I'm trying to work out a way to send it to the list in the body of the message or am seeking permission to send as an attachment... MM did you get yours?

Re: [ozmidwifery] c/s for breech

2002-09-11 Thread Rhonda
I bet it was hushed up! Yet a person I know was breech at 39 weeks deliveredvaginally as baby turned at the last min - however, in hindsight - it probably should have been a c/s. Baby had the cord around it's neck three times (first baby had the same problem,

Re: [ozmidwifery] training of Ambo's

2002-09-11 Thread Rhonda
Yes megan, I have always wondered this as when I was transfered from Geelong to Melb with severe PE at 26wks. The Ambo said to me - "It's alright love, I have delivered babies before!" I replied, "Oh, I am not going into labour - do you know what to

Re: [ozmidwifery] vaginal ultrasound

2002-09-11 Thread TinaPettigrew
In a message dated 11/09/02 9:21:51 AM AUS Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear All, I just wanted to add a note to your comment about the effect of ultrasounds on a baby's hearing. Recently my husband pointed-out to me an article about ultrasound that he came across in a

RE: [ozmidwifery] Poster...for better birth!

2002-09-11 Thread Karen Arthur
Title: Message Vicki Please send me an attachment as well if you cannot put it on ozmid! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Kind regards Karen -Original Message-From: Zena Grant Coote [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, 11 September 2002 8:25 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re:

Re: [ozmidwifery] Andrea R!

2002-09-11 Thread Andrea Robertson
Hi Vicky, No, attachments don't work on this list for technical reasons. How about sending the PDF through to our website manager and we will put it up on our ste. If you give us the ordering details we will include them as well, then people can send you a cheque or whatever without having to

Re: [ozmidwifery] Implanon Implant

2002-09-11 Thread Trish David
Yes, my sister had terrible mood swings and got really angry at her nearly three year old son and her 20 month old daughter. She was depressed and upset all the time, and has been much better since it was removed. She now has one of the new generation IUDs and is feeling much more secure and

Re: [ozmidwifery] Vaginal ultrasounds

2002-09-11 Thread Lynne Staff
Unfortunately many women have come to expect a peek at every visit. I remember a woman at an antenatal session who queried what she was paying the money to her ob for when all he did was aske her how she was, and measured her belly with a tape I told her she didn't know how lucky she was!!!

Re: [ozmidwifery] Vaginal ultrasounds

2002-09-11 Thread Lynne Staff
Mary this ob can't be very booked out if he can see womenas early as12 weeks! WHat a worry - Original Message - From: JoFromOz To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Vaginal ultrasounds They are

Re: [ozmidwifery] Hello - Brasil here...

2002-09-11 Thread Lynne Staff
Thankyou for your words Cheryl - Original Message - From: CHERYL JONES To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 1:26 AM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Hello - Brasil here... Lynne I wish to complement you in how wellyou have

Re: [ozmidwifery] Post maturity Vs Post dates

2002-09-11 Thread Lynne Staff
This is one of the issues we have to face now in practice - becausefew women's pregnancies are "let" go beyond 41 weeks, there islittle experience within the professions of knowing womenwhose pregnancies extend (unsurprisingly)beyond even 41 weeks in may places. I know we have recently had

Re: [ozmidwifery] Re: Gym balls/birth balls

2002-09-11 Thread Lynne Staff
We have policies for making policies! - Original Message - From: Marilyn Kleidon To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 7:40 AM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Re: Gym balls/birth balls Please, please don't let anyone have a policy for the

Re: [ozmidwifery] Vaginal ultrasounds

2002-09-11 Thread Lynne Staff
I wonder what the hooha would be like if they invented an anal ultrasound to detect prostate enlargement - somehow I don't think many men would consent to its use - Original Message - From: Mary Murphy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002

Re: [ozmidwifery] Read in the newspaper

2002-09-11 Thread Lynne Staff
The correct terminology for this condition is (ughhh) a 'parasytic twin' (oh to our wonderful terminology again), where there is incomplete separation of the twins - similar to conjoined twins, but the second twin can be either fully formed inside the body of the surviving twin, or

Re: [ozmidwifery] c/s for breech

2002-09-11 Thread Lynne Staff
And has changed her birthgiving life forever - Original Message - From: Sally Westbury To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 5:52 PM Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] c/s for breech I hope that she is advised to sue. This is gross

Re: [ozmidwifery] workshops

2002-09-11 Thread Pinky McKay
Hi Joy I will be speaking informally to mums with bubs only at 2.30pm after a babies GymbarOO class on the afternoon of 26 Sept (just in case later nights arent easy and it can be more specifically to needs of newer mums) This is no charge and wont be promoted openly, although if you know

Re: [ozmidwifery] Post maturity Vs Post dates

2002-09-11 Thread JoFromOz
I always thought postdates was anything after the EDB. Post mature, however is when the baby is actually post -term. Now they've changed when post term is, so postmaturity occurs sooner. Just clarifying what I meant :) Jo

Re: [ozmidwifery] Vaginal ultrasounds

2002-09-11 Thread Mary Murphy
Unfortunately, women are sent straight to the Obs by their G.P as soon as they are aware they are pregnant. Its like an assembly line. MM Mary this ob can't be very booked out if he can see womenas early as12 weeks! WHat a worry

Re: [ozmidwifery] Post maturity Vs Post dates

2002-09-11 Thread Mary Murphy
Is the "due date" a stupid mistake or is it me? If research told us some 10 yrs ago that only 5% of all women have their babies on the "due" date, then it is not the women and babies that are at fault, but the calculation of this mythical due date. 95% of women and babies can't be wrong! MM

Re: [ozmidwifery] Loose weight

2002-09-11 Thread Denise Hynd
Dear Ric Some/many babies DO NOT loose any weight. Illingworth reported this in the 1950's it is een when the babies are not stressed and mostly this means have a truly natural gentle birth and are not seperated from thier mother's there after ie at home mostly Denise - Original Message

Re: [ozmidwifery] Where are the 'natural' births???

2002-09-11 Thread Mary Murphy
AT HOME! Sorry about the thoughts about changing things. The other staff will only think you are upstarts. Cheers, MM "Where are all of these non-interventionist births happening?? Some of us have seen some horrific, sometimes avoidable things happening to women. We can't wait until we

Re: [ozmidwifery] Where are the 'natural' births???

2002-09-11 Thread Larissa Tim
LOL Sally - the obvious answer :) Johanna - they do still occur I promise. If you are lucky enough to be "with woman" at the birth centreof that hospital near uniyou will see some wonderful births. I caught my own baby there 20 minutes after arriving and have seen and heard of marvelous

Re: [ozmidwifery] Post maturity Vs Post dates

2002-09-11 Thread Mary Murphy
Jo," post dates" means a calendar calculation -time. "post mature" is a specific syndrome where the baby loses weight and the liquor volume diminishes significantly etc. etc. They are two different things and it is the "post mature syndrome" that is the one for concern. MM I always

[ozmidwifery] Re: Loose weight

2002-09-11 Thread Larissa Tim
I can verify that - my last baby did not lose any weight at all and actually put on 190g by day 3. No intervention here - midwife didn't even touch me during labour or the the baby till she was an hour old! Hugs, Larissa - Original Message - From: Denise Hynd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear

RE: [ozmidwifery] Where are the 'natural' births??? long

2002-09-11 Thread Vicki Chan
Title: Message If we are not very careful...home will be the only place a natural birth is experienced.the time has come for us all to act. The National Maternity Action Plan is a spring board for change. Dont let the chance go by Let me tell you a parable There was woman

Re: [ozmidwifery] Where are the 'natural' births???

2002-09-11 Thread jireland
at home and in birth centres and hospital in public and private when women are informed strong and not interfered with harder to get as u progress along ie home---hosp but possible when women are truley informed and supported by known midwives jan - Original Message -

Re: [ozmidwifery] Midwifery in Victoria

2002-09-11 Thread jireland
Sally the vic borad of nursing has never publically suggested in any shape or form that independant mws have a problem when and if they do we can act Is this niave? Where does your information come from ? jan - Original Message - From: Sally Westbury To: [EMAIL

RE: [ozmidwifery] c/s for breech

2002-09-11 Thread Vicki Chan
Title: Message but lucky to be oh so civilized! check this out! -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lynne StaffSent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 9:30 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] c/s for breech

Re: [ozmidwifery] Menstruation

2002-09-11 Thread Irene Munro
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[ozmidwifery] Tramadol

2002-09-11 Thread Lisa
Hi The anaesthetic dept. at the hospital where I work has asked the pharmacy to look at removing pethidine from the formulary for both general and maternity clients (mainly because of adverse side-effects). They suggest that tramadol is a safer alternative and that a "number of published

Re: [ozmidwifery] Implanon Implant

2002-09-11 Thread Andrea Quanchi
I have known several woman who have had it removed because of the mood swings or depression that they have associated with it. Andrea Quanchi On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, at 06:31 PM, Claudia van Duyn wrote: Has anyone come across clients with negative side effects from the use of the

Re: [ozmidwifery] Tramadol

2002-09-11 Thread Kathleen Fahy
I doubt very much if this drug has been tested and approved for pregnant women. My daughter was precribed it for post op pain and experienced the following side effects (which are also described in manafacturer's leaflet; feeling of fever feeling weid and strage and restless rash nausea

Re: FW: [ozmidwifery] Midwifery in Victoria (long)

2002-09-11 Thread Trish David
Tina, very articulate. Only the last sentence to take issue with. Nursing students (and medical students, too, by the way) who are on a maternity placement face the same problems. It is not the student who is dangerous, it is the woman who is giving birth, as she is the one to sue regardless of

Re: [ozmidwifery] Implanon Implant

2002-09-11 Thread James Stephanie Fairbairn
On a personal level, a friend has had the implant and it began 'traveling' around her arm and it is quite scarred now as they kept opening her up and looking for it!! - pretty horrible. Steph. CBE - Original Message - From: Claudia van Duyn To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ozmidwifery] Implanon Implant

2002-09-11 Thread JoFromOz
Ack! I have only heard good stuff from friends/acquaintances who have it. I think anyone who can't use the progesterone only pill should rule it out. Jo

Re: [ozmidwifery] c/s for breech

2002-09-11 Thread Carolyn Donaghey
Title: Message What is civilised about being dissected. I see no reference in the article that this woman had any exposure to any informed information or people. Just a bunch of girlfriends who obviously had the vaginal births from hell, over managed and intervened, one of which was an

Re: [ozmidwifery] Post maturity Vs Post dates

2002-09-11 Thread Lynne Staff
Sorry, I meant the current definition of 'post maturity' according to what I observein currentpractice seems to be anything over40 weeks, induce - Original Message - From: Mary Murphy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 10:32 AM Subject:

Re: [ozmidwifery] c/s for breech

2002-09-11 Thread James Stephanie Fairbairn
Title: Message I have also read the 'natural birth' article offering the flip side to the C/S and at least there is some balance to this site - however they manage to make this N/Birth woman look exceptionally brave, extraordinary and financially secure enough to ba able to hire the private

Re: [ozmidwifery] Fw: WOMEN'S HUMOR

2002-09-11 Thread Andrea Robertson
Hi Denise, I use a program called Eudora for my email and it has this handy feature called Mood alert which screens incoming and outgoing messages and alerts you, via a neat row of chillies just how hot the message is, giving you a chance to either amend it (outgoing) before you insult

Re: [ozmidwifery] c/s for breech

2002-09-11 Thread JoFromOz
Title: Message "gently lifted out"? She obviously didn't see the actual birth of her baby... most often the head has to be wrenched out of the pelvis, usually with forceps, then squeezed out through the skin, pushed from the top. To be gently lifted out, it would have to be a 40cm