RE: [ozmidwifery] NATIONAL HOME BIRTH AWARENESS WEEK

2005-10-24 Thread karen shlegeris
Hi Jan and All, Just want to wish everyone involved in keeping the homebirth movement alive all the best for national homebirth awareness week.    Last week we had a family evening watching the homebirth video of my second son and I was able to relive the amazing memories of that experi

[ozmidwifery] Induction and third stage labour

2005-10-03 Thread karen shlegeris
but it’s not clear on this.    I appreciate your support.   Best wishes, Karen Shlegeris in Townsville

RE: [ozmidwifery] another induction

2005-08-19 Thread Karen Shlegeris
I can imagine this would create problems due to logistics, because our OBs are so busy already. One yoga student of mine planned her active birth/VBAC with her OB extensively, then when she went a few days past due date he told her that he was sure she'd go into labour the following weekend when h

RE: [ozmidwifery] sounds during labour/birth

2005-08-15 Thread Karen Shlegeris
Hi, During my second labour at home I said "ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow" all the way through each contraction, as if to let everyone know that I was feeling something very strong, which I don't describe as pain, and boy it helped just to verbalise it. No-one even seemed to notice, in fact it probably i