[ozmidwifery] Re: Vaginal breech birth

2005-04-24 Thread ID AC Quanchi
It is true these little treasures have the benefit of making the right way to be born known My experience of breech is 1 multi undiagnosed due to large maternal habitas just presented a foot and birthed very quickly 2. primip undiagnosed who presented a scrotum and then froze when everyone

[ozmidwifery] Re: dopplers

2005-04-10 Thread ID AC Quanchi
I have spoken to the MUM and Echuca Regional Health is in the market for a new one and is interested in getting in on the deal. Can you let me know when you will be ordering them Andrea Quanchi Judy Chapman writes: I would like to be in with this ordering lot please. Cheers Judy ---

[ozmidwifery] Re: low placenta

2005-02-22 Thread ID AC Quanchi
Doctors often talk about placentas moving and it is confusing as it makes people think it grows legs and walks. As the uterus grows in size the distance between a low lying placenta and the internal os of the cerix gets larger and so on ultrasound it 'appears' that the placenta has moved

[ozmidwifery] Re: nine years

2005-01-07 Thread ID AC Quanchi
Philippa, I remember being toaught during my training that if a woman had a seven year gap between pregnancies then it was like having a first baby again. Obviously this is not so but I think the thing is that most second third fourth babies are born while mum still has a toddler. Caring for

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2004-12-09 Thread ID AC Quanchi
At the organisation where I work we have been asked to sign 'a code of conduct'before we can be given a password to the new computer system. There is nothing in the code that is not already covered by the other codes and laws by which we are governed and in the past I have declined to sign it

[ozmidwifery] terbutaline

2004-11-21 Thread ID AC Quanchi
Where does terbutaline fit in with all this? I have heard of them using it at RWH, but haven't seen it at my workplace. Nicole C Nicole, I am at home and so do not have access to a MIMS but I am sure you can check with your pharmacist but zisnt Terbutaline an asthma medication? Therefore its

[ozmidwifery] you missed a great study day

2004-11-20 Thread ID AC Quanchi
Thanks to the girls at Moses sub branch of ACMI for the great study day today on Improving Midwives Understanding of Women's Mental Health During the Childbearing Years. The numbers were small which I always think is disappointing for those that have gone to all the effort of organising days

[ozmidwifery] niphedipine

2004-11-20 Thread ID AC Quanchi
we often have cause to use niphedipine for prem labour while awaiting transfer to a tertiary centre and usually do so under advice from the obstetric people at the receiving hospital which will be either RWH, Monash or Mercy ( in Victoria). They usually ask that the women chew the first dose

Re: [ozmidwifery] Great News for NT Women

2004-11-17 Thread ID AC Quanchi
Oh you wonderful wonderful women. Now we just need the remainder of the mexican states to pull their fingers out and do the same thing Andrea Quanchi -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe.

[ozmidwifery] thanks

2004-11-16 Thread ID AC Quanchi
well done Tania and I'm sure that piece of info is going to pass many of our lips in the future. I for one never bother to do these coz I could never see the point but many hospitals have it written in their policies that they should be done. When I was doing the care plans for the

[ozmidwifery] Re: Re cold epidurals

2004-11-05 Thread ID AC Quanchi
But rpior to prostin, what was he planning to do have the epidural in for a 'week'. I'm sure we have all seen cases when prostin has no effect especially in women who are not really ready to labour. Andrea Q Alesa Koziol writes: We have experienced a few cold epidurals over the past 18

[ozmidwifery] Re: ICM conference

2004-10-14 Thread ID AC Quanchi
get together for a champers? I still owe you one for the homebirth confernece in Noosa 2000. Lieve, would love to meet you. Trish ID AC Quanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lieve, Any chance you can come to the ICM conference in Brisbane next year and we would all be ableto meet you Andrea

[ozmidwifery] ICM conference

2004-10-13 Thread ID AC Quanchi
Lieve, Any chance you can come to the ICM conference in Brisbane next year and we would all be ableto meet you Andrea Quanchi -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit http://www.acegraphics.com.au to subscribe or unsubscribe.

[ozmidwifery] Re: Pregnancy rocker

2004-07-23 Thread ID AC Quanchi
I dont think it needs it be a rocker. Sutton Scott tak about a rocker in the OFP book because they had one but the idea is that it is a seat that supports the knees lower than hips position. I have two ergonomic or kneeling seats that women borrow and use. They find these very comfortable to

[ozmidwifery] Re: home alone.

2004-05-11 Thread ID AC Quanchi
Jessica Stewart writes: Dear All, Just wondring if anyone would be happy to share any experiance/knowledge they have on postnatal follow up at home with women who have suffered a interuterine/ neontal/ stilbirth death. I am aware of SANDS, but just hoping to discover what else is out there

[ozmidwifery] Re: risks of 4th c/s and support for artificial feeding

2003-03-29 Thread ID AC Quanchi
I met a woman once who had had eight c/s. Her Ob said thatevery time he cut her uterus was like doing it for the first time and she had virtually no scar tissue at all. She could also discuss this with her OB but I agree with the idea of having a vaginal birth with a midwife would be the best

[ozmidwifery] Re: LOTUS BIRTHS

2003-01-09 Thread ID AC Quanchi
Lyn I can't see that it will have any affect on the remaining beely button. I think that is genetically determined. From what i have observed over the years some babies have skin that finishes at the cord junction and some babies seem to have skin growing a centimetre or two along the cord. The

[ozmidwifery] Re: LOTUS BIRTHS

2003-01-09 Thread ID AC Quanchi
This week I had my first woman who wanted a lotus birth and i was fascinated to see her baby react quite strongly whenever her placenta was handled independently of her. When they were bundled together she seemed at peace but if she was lying down and the placenta was moved she reacted quite