Title: CROSS POST : signing off for a while
Well - I'm going off-air for a while...and I will miss you all.
I have decided I need to commit more time to the lifestyle changes needed to get my fertility back on track. I have only had one period in the last year, and I am feeling the strain
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] mums community - Melbourne
Pinky - can I fly down to Melbourne every week for this? I am green with envy! Hey - maybe I can start up one here in Brisbane!
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Melissa
Birthtalk : Sharing, Empowering, Celebrating Birth
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Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] Weekend Australian
Hi, Lynne - yes, saw the article (and have it online, if anyone wants it). That Dr Molloy...g. He's the one who , in an article in the C Mail, gave his reason for the increase in the cs rate in Aus...women's pelvises are getting smaller! Of course
Title: crosspost : Birthtalk February Meeting!
We would like to invite you to a meeting of
birthtalk
Sharing, Empowering, Celebrating Birth
on Tuesday, Feburary 18th.
February's Topic :
Assessing Our Needs And How They Fit
Within Our Maternal Health System
We will offer some
We are off to Sunny Melbourne till tuesday, so I am signing off so my Inbox
doesn't collapse! See you all then!
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Melissa
Birthtalk : Sharing, Empowering, Celebrating Birth
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Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] End of Caseload at The Angliss
Dawn - not sure if this is what you are looking for, but I received team midwifery care at the RHW at Randwick's Birth Centre...and found it to be a flawed system of care. And ended up with a c/sec. I would be happy to outline why, as a
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] Birthtalk's First Birth
*sob* Tina...that made me cry!
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Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Birthtalk's First Birth
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 9:35 PM
Hello Melissa and the women of 'birthtalk'.
I was absolutely thrilled to
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Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] homebirth
Hi, Kim! Two friends (one who is a midwife and childbirth educator) and I facilitate a group in Brisbane called Birthtalk : Sharing
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] homebirth
Hi, Kim! Two friends (one who is a midwife and childbirth educator) and I facilitate a group in Brisbane called Birthtalk : Sharing, Empowering, Celebrating Birth. We have about 10 women currently attending our Forums and Healing From Birth meetings. At least
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] lotus birth
Hi, Julie...there is a lot of info on the Birthlove website (www.birthlove.com). It is a pay site - not v expensive, and SO worthwhile - heaps of info on it. Leilah McCracken, who runs it, has 8 kids : the first 5 hospital births, incl one c/sec, and the
to contact me off the list if you like.
Have a great break and enjoy it all.
Aviva
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Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] Fw: Brisbane enthusiasm
Denise - it's Melissa here...I facilitate Birthtalk with Deb, my sister-in-law (who is the one who put the Question to Peter Beatty at Ipswich) and Karen (whose home birth story was mentioned in your friend's daughter's letter). I will not
Title: [ozmidwifery] Signing off for a while
Hi, all. Well, it's been really interesting and informative being on the Ozmid list...but I must sign off for a while. My family need me, and I get sidetracked keeping up with the Ozmid emails...'cos I love reading them! THank you for sharing your
Can anyone help me with this? I have a close friend at the Gold Coast who
wants a vbac, and has found a vbac-friendly OB...BUT...he has said he wants
her to have an u/s at 34 wks to determine her pelvic size, so she doesn't
have to go thru a long labour for nothing!!!!!! I have told her of
Title: FW: [ozmidwifery] A follow thru journey.when Sally met Harry(Long)
Tina - tonite I read your story as you wrote it, to our Birthtalk- Sharing, Empowering, Celebrating Birth group. It was heard by a group of 8 women.
(6 have suffered traumatic c/sec births and 4 are pg) It was
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] follow through programme
I did not know this was even an option - thanks for sharing this info.
Melissa
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From: Grant and Louise [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Ozmidwifery [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ozmidwifery] follow through programme
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 9:44 AM
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] A follow thru journey.when Sally met Harry(Long)
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Also Melissa...where are you all?? I would like to take this opportunity to invite these women to contact their local universities and enquire about their midwifery courses, particularly
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] Re Tina's response to Denise
While some of the
midwives seem to embrace the whole responsibility/accountability
thingmany do not...and would rather be seen in the handmaiden role in
preference to accepting full responsibility for their midwife role.
TIna - this
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] CPD WAS big baby fear?
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From: Sarah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just find it disheartening to hear someone say that they were glad that
they had a c-section because their baby was 'large'. I mean fair enough if
it was 12lb or something (although I have
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] A follow thru journey.when Sally met Harry(Long)
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At the B Mid Student Collective...we are bantering around the possibility of putting a book together of our follow thru experiences 'with woman'..written by BMidders
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] birth and the power of the mind
From: Carolyn Donaghey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why do women who avoid alcohol, panadol and soft cheese for 9 months suddenly become happy about ingesting drugs more powerful than any of these and any they are likely to take in their life?
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] big baby fear?
I'll say it's a good week! Warms my heart and gives me hope to hear stories like this. THanks Judy
Melissa
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Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] big baby fear?
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 8:09 PM
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] 'elective' cs
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From: Jo Dean Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [ozmidwifery] 'elective' cs
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:56 PM
I would suggest (perhaps incorrectly?) that the greatest culprits of the right to elective cs are women...
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] A follow thru journey.when Sally met Harry(Long)
oh, Tina- I am bawling here! I can hardly see the screen...that is the MOSt AWESOME story - THANK YOU for sharing it here. Sniff sniff - it truly does the soul good to hear what a woman can do when she is
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] birth and the power of the mind
Fear must have an impact on labour length. Because fear produces adrenalin, and adrenalin inhibits the oxytocin, which is the hormone that works to make the uterus contract. In the Active Birth classes I did in Sydney, we learned that
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] adrenaline in labour WAS birth and the power of the mind
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From: Denise Hynd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have not heard of burst of adrenaline with each contraction nor can I see the physiological sense of such.
Rather when a woman is in labour the hormones that drive
On the topic of control...I love it when women say they want a cs cause they
are more in controlgot news for them! Unless they are multi-skilled and
dam flexible and have the scalpel in their own hands, they are in no way in
control!
Jo Bainbridge
So right, Jo! Being pinned down and
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] ABC radio
Strength to you, Jo! I know what you mean re being scared...I was on ABC talkback radio chatting about attending our local NMAP launch rally with a group of c/sec women, and the effect it had on us all. I thought I was going to throw up afterwards! But that
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] Proved 'im wrong
Wow, Judy - you go, girl! This woman will probably never know how lucky she was to have met you. But we know. You may be proud of the woman, and with good cause, but I feel so much admiration for YOU for standing up for this woman's rights and providing
the validation. All I got after 2 CS for 'Failure to Progress' (ob impatience) was 'you should be thankful you have a healthy baby'. What about me, don't I get a chance to be healthy! It took about 24 years to come to terms with it.
Judy
From: rem melissa bruijn
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] hurtful birth
educated and Birth with a midwife I knew and trusted for starters.
Melissa
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From: Judy Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [ozmidwifery] hurtful birth experiences
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 8:07 PM
Judy
From: rem melissa bruijn
Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] hurtful birth
that this is typical of rapees too. I think we ought to celebrate every woman who makes the steps to even begin to heal; and let's celebrate every step along the way.
love to you all,
aviva
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From: rem melissa bruijn
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Sent: Wednesday, November 13
MArgie - just wanted to say THANK YOU for these words. The biggest thing I
am finding for anyone who has been traumatised by their birth experience is
GETTING VALIDATION.
Everytime someone says It is not ok, as you have, it lets us hear that our
pain is valid. We usually hear but you're fine
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] Gold Coast Midwife
Hi, Tory,
I am in Brisbane but know quite a few fantastic people on the Gold Coast who could support your sister-in-law (don't actually know any midwives, but these people I am recommending will - and support can come from all angles!). I hope it is
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] healing and connecting after c/sec WAS dimensions - violent birth
Something I like to do for Ceasarean born babies...and breech born too...is
spend time massaging the babe from crown down the body to the toes, making sure
every part of the body is stimulated...
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] introducing birthtalk
Thank you to Aviva, and Liz for your comments and support.
Aviva - I cannot agree more about the effectiveness of talking and writing to deal with trauma. And I am so sorry about what you had to go through to discover this - I will stand silent on
Title: introducing birthtalk
Hi - I have been lurking for a little while now, and after all the discussion on Birth Trauma and c/secs etc, I felt I must come out of lurkdom and introduce myself!
Firstly, for all the women who have been sharing their traumatic experiences (Rhonda, Jo) - I am
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