Hurrah!! This is the kind of thoughtful response that makes me excited
to be a midwife.
I really want us to own our policy and guidelines. To look at our
origins and use and own the skills that are valid! Throw off the
redundant! Make midwifery practice, woman centred, evidence based and
SAFE!!
this really surprises me, I have just never had even a nasty look (though lots of
smiles) - feeding my baby (and now my toddler) on buses, in bank queues, at funerals,
weddings, at restaurants with my grandmother who bottlefed all of her 7 children... I
forget that there are still people around
Hi Jo,
Up until yesterday, I had never experienced
anything negative towards me breastfeeding any of my three children in
public.
Actually of late, I have been doing it more than ever, as I try to finish
off my Christmas shoppingit's been great having my baby in the sling...
and as soon as he
Go for it Nic,
Get them both out with a bub on each side. Penrith Plaza wouldn't know what
hit them!
I have a lovely breastfeeding story to share with you that occurred at the
very same shopping centre Nicole is talking about.
Maya was about 4 weeks old and I had the other 3 kids with me shopping.
What's the wildest place you've bf your baby? I fed Liam in the queue
for the top level of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Got a few funny looks
but just explained Il Faim! (translation if my spelling is correct...
He's hungry! : ) )
I will bf Dan anywhere I please... It's still a free country. Anyone
I used to breastfeed mine (one-handed) while pushing a supermarket trolley
around doing the weekly shop! I even managed to continue at the check-out by
passing up one item at a time from the trolley to the conveyor belt. Not
conventional or restful but when you have 4 small children things just
Lesley - I love it!!!
It's amazing how talented us women are!! I can't imagine my husband trying
to do what we do (if he could breastfeed, that is) ie. calming the baby,
whilst doing the shopping, whilst thinking about what we should have for
dinner that night, whilst keeping one eye on your
I agree Jo - from now on - it's look out Penrith Plaza - here I come -
'boobs on parade!!'.
(I loved your story about that dear old soul).
love Nic
x x x xx x
ps - we must get together soon - busting to show you our homebirth video
and I know how you just can't get enough of them
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Cas, I'm not sure anyone could match that!!! Certainly not me anyway - I
have breastfed pretty much everywhere... meaning boring old shops; parks;
buses; trains etc etc.
I remember being crammed onto a bus with my first baby (way back in 1992)...
and I was stuck sitting next to a stuffy
I do that now!! Whilst shopping at spotlight yesterday my mum overheard me
say to Lailah (2 months) that she could have a feed whilst we did this
shopping and that way she would not be unhappy on the way home. My Mum then
said how different I was to my sister, who is also BF a newborn, in that she
I have also BF in church, where my father was a priest. No one commented.
thats What god, being a wise woman, made them for.
Megan
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From: Pinky McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Fw:(WOW)
Well, having my own shop I used to sit/or stand and serve customers
while feeding - sometimes getting them to "help themselves" to the
jewellery that they wanted. Then fumbling change one handed to them
or I would just serve them and answer questions etc - I
Without being able to say too much we may have a
law suit about to happen in Qld by a couple who were insensed to find they had
been coerced into a C/S to find there was nothing wrong with their baby. Not
only that, the info I have says the fatherhas evidencethat
theCTG trace was not as bad
I hope the coupletake this to the media if
they pursue this - this story DEFINATELY needs to be told and heard
!!!
regards,
Nicole
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From:
Dierdre Bowman
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 12:33
PM
Subject: [ozmidwifery] C/S
I just wanted to make a late reply to Cas regarding
the babies in recovery. It is my experience that this is not normal practice at
least in a couple of hospitals I know of in Brisbane. Mum gets to see baby
maybe for a couple of minutes and then baby is wisked away, usually in it's cot
back
Don't know about Qld but I heard today that they are going to
increase private health insurance because claims for damages are going to
be regulated - there has to be 5% permanent physical damage or 10% mental
damage for a claim to be made.
Can't imagine
Dear Ozmid list,
I need to know or get some feedback about the
prevelance of physiological third stage in Australia.
That is are women being offered the option of
birthing their placentas with out an oxytocic injection in Australain hospitals
and is it standard practice to give women
Hi Denise,
At our small hospital (15 - 30 births a year), just recently
it has become protocol that all women are to have the oxytocic for 3rd
stage.This is a result of doctors' request. In the past, I think I was
possibly the only midwife who spoke to them about whether or not they wanted
At the hospital where I birthed my son, one of the
questions on the birthplan list is 'Management of the afterbirth with an
oxytocic injection is recommended. Do you have any thoughts about this?'
My response was typed as this- 'I would like a physiological 3rd stage, unless
medically
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