Re: [ozmidwifery] CTG

2006-10-20 Thread Jackie Kitschke
To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 8:53 PM Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] CTG We were actually discussing this on my website and I was wondering, as were some others, what the real figures are for infant seizures – I have personally never heard of a

RE: [ozmidwifery] CTG

2006-10-19 Thread Kelly @ BellyBelly
We were actually discussing this on my website and I was wondering, as were some others, what the real figures are for infant seizures – I have personally never heard of a woman around me who has been through that. Does it happen often at all? I just want to reassure them with some wise wor

Re: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff

2006-06-18 Thread sally @ home
ssage - From: Susan Cudlipp To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 2:20 PM Subject: Re: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff Choice is an interesting concept: if we truly support choice then surely even 'bad' choices should be res

Re: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff

2006-06-17 Thread Janet Fraser
ifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 2:20 PM Subject: Re: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff What is the JB website please? Sue "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"Edmund Burke - Original Message

Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff

2006-06-17 Thread Judy Chapman
So true Andrea. Many years ago a woman consented to be admitted with a transverse lie at term but rejected any treatment. She was a mulipara. Many times over the next week the dangers were explained (such explanation was well documented) and she declined CS. Finally she consented and it was schedu

Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff

2006-06-17 Thread MH
To: Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 11:46 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuffMy point here was that this woman DID have this explained very carefully by a patient ob who did not want to induce her, and still she wanted it done. And we see so often those who come

RE: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff

2006-06-17 Thread Roberta Quinn
On the contrary, very well said. -Original Message- From: Andrea Robertson This is a tricky area - "informed choice" is really a myth, as so many vested interests come into play, but we must support women once they have made a considered decision. To do less would be to undermine her furt

Re: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff

2006-06-17 Thread Lynne Staff
Hi Emily, Could you please email me off list? Re your supervisor's request. Regards, Lynne - Original Message - From: Emily To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 10:49 AM Subject: Re: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff hi all i

Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff

2006-06-17 Thread Andrea Robertson
One aspect of "choice" that needs to be considered is that even when all the pros and cons are weighted carefully and a very "informed" choice is made, there is no guarantee that the option chosen will prove to be the best in the final analysis. Mistakes can still be made and decisions thought

Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff

2006-06-17 Thread Susan Cudlipp
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff My point here was that this woman DID have this explained very carefully by a patient ob who did not want to induce her, and still she wanted it done.  And we see so often those who come in time and time again trying very hard to get induced - some women

Re: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff

2006-06-17 Thread Susan Cudlipp
d anyone, just playing Devil's advocate  :-) Sue - Original Message - From: Stephen & Felicity To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 3:21 PM Subject: Re: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff "if we truly support choice

Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff

2006-06-17 Thread Jennifairy
Susan Cudlipp wrote: Choice is an interesting concept: if we truly support choice then surely even 'bad' choices should be respected? Yeah see this is where a persons rights as a medical consumer gets tricky. How do we define 'bad' choices whilst being culturally/theologically/spiritu

RE: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff

2006-06-17 Thread Nicole Carver
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of EmilySent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 10:49 AMTo: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.auSubject: Re: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuffhi all i have just finished the 'obstetrics' term of my course and over the 9 weeks i repetitively b

RE: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff

2006-06-17 Thread Roberta Quinn
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff From: Susan Cudlipp "The reply was 'I DONT CARE- I WANT TO BE INDUCED' How can the ob refuse in this instance?"   In my experience, many women don't understand that being induced can result in a very different birthing experience

Re: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff

2006-06-17 Thread Stephen & Felicity
wer back in their hands, and not be afraid to get REAL.  Political correctness has no place in birth and nor does beauracracy.  - Original Message - From: Susan Cudlipp To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 2:20 PM Subject: Re: Re: [ozmidwif

Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff

2006-06-16 Thread Justine Caines
Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff Dear Sue and all What an amazing thread!! Choice is the key.  The choices that are respected and funded are those that prop up the medical monopoly of the big business of birth. So all you wonderful midwives out there, start/keep saying it.  There are no

Re: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff

2006-06-16 Thread Emily
To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 10:26 AM Subject: Re: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuffI'd love a copy of that for the JB website, Emily, if you'd like to share and I'd love all your refs What you're describ

Re: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff

2006-06-16 Thread Susan Cudlipp
ct: Re: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff I'd love a copy of that for the JB website, Emily, if you'd like to share and I'd love all your refs   What you're describing in terms of "maternal choice" really needs a feminist critique to allow us to mana

Re: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff

2006-06-16 Thread Susan Cudlipp
y interventions! :-)) Sue - Original Message - From: Emily To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 8:49 AM Subject: Re: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff hi all i have just finished the 'obstetrics' term of my course and ove

Re: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff

2006-06-16 Thread Janet Fraser
I'd love a copy of that for the JB website, Emily, if you'd like to share and I'd love all your refs   What you're describing in terms of "maternal choice" really needs a feminist critique to allow us to manage those "choices" in ways which are not harmful to women. Since induction and

RE: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff

2006-06-16 Thread adamnamy
is easier to persuade the doc’s to intervene than to not interfere.   Amy   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Emily Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 8:49 AM To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Subject: Re: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff   hi all i have just

Re: Re: [ozmidwifery] ctg stuff

2006-06-16 Thread Emily
hi all i have just finished the 'obstetrics' term of my course and over the 9 weeks i repetitively brought up my disgust with the use of CTGs against all the very high quality evidence that is out there against them, that noone refutes they just ignore. the wonderful obstetrician who was my s

Re: [ozmidwifery] CTG & stillbirth

2006-05-29 Thread brendamanning
From: Lieve Huybrechts To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 9:11 PM Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] CTG & stillbirth Hello Michelle   Last week something strange has happened. Two colleague midwives had a stillbirth at home. A very norm

Re: [ozmidwifery] CTG & stillbirth

2006-05-27 Thread Sadie
I think it shows one person's interpretation of a CTG... - Original Message - From: Michelle Windsor To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 9:39 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] CTG & stillbirth Hi Sadie

Re: [ozmidwifery] CTG & stillbirth

2006-05-27 Thread Michelle Windsor
Hi Sadie,   I guess the thing is that alot of people believe that a normal CTG (not in labour) is reassuring for fetal well being for the next 24 hours.  Obviously this wasn't the case for this baby.    You said about doing emergency C/S for unressuring trace only to have the baby come out scre

RE: [ozmidwifery] CTG & stillbirth

2006-05-27 Thread Lieve Huybrechts
Hello Michelle   Last week something strange has happened. Two colleague midwives had a stillbirth at home. A very normal labour, half an hour second stage, good heartbeats. When the baby’s head was born they saw meconium in the mouth (the water was clear when it broke minutes before). Th

Re: [ozmidwifery] CTG & stillbirth

2006-05-27 Thread Melissa Singer
e and vice vera.   Very sad..       - Original Message - From: Sadie To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] CTG & stillbirth CTG's can only reveal what is happening at that mome

Re: [ozmidwifery] CTG & stillbirth

2006-05-27 Thread Sadie
CTG's can only reveal what is happening at that moment and are subjective to interpretation. Often a CTG can look positively awful, and yet after FBS the pH is fine - and how often have many of us taken an emergency C/S to theatre because of a trace that was not reassuring - to have a scream

Re: [ozmidwifery] CTG Inservice

2003-05-29 Thread Veronica
h it.  Thanks heaps.  Veronica - Original Message - From: Elissa and David To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:20 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] CTG Inservice There is a programme called CTG Tutor which you may find useful .It can be downloaded

Re: [ozmidwifery] CTG Inservice

2003-05-28 Thread Elissa and David
There is a programme called CTG Tutor which you may find useful .It can be downloaded free at http://www.perinatal.org.uk/ctg/index_ctg.htm Cheers,  David - Original Message - From: ljg To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 2:10 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery]