Traditional Midwifery Workshop

Traditional Midwifery Workshop

By Lisa Barrett on July 13, 2010

Traditional ways of working with women without fear. 22 to 24th October Melbourne.

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Virtual international day of the midwife.

Virtual international day of the midwife.

By Lisa Barrett on June 30, 2010

I am finally putting this up here.  It’s an interactive talk that took place on international day of the midwife.  The title is
Midwife Elite professional or birth servant.  The history of registration and regulation is very interesting.  Lots of us don’t understand that to put your hand up and go on a register is very different to being regulated in [...]

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Your baby is alive you should be grateful

Your baby is alive you should be grateful

By Lisa Barrett on September 1, 2010

Is maternal mortality/morbidity being forgotten about in the mad obstetric rush to control womens bodies?
We can see from the links below (Many thanks to Janet Fraser for letting me use her hard work) that mental health issues are one of the leading causes of death for women.  Why?  The intricate exchange of hormones that take place immediately after the baby [...]

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The definition of life – Supreme Court

By Lisa Barrett on August 28, 2010

Following the Coroners decision earlier this year to give himself Jurisdiction on a baby who had a PEA after birth with no sign of life, I would like to question his decision.  The transcript of his findings were in contradiction to his experts and in my opinion the law.  After seeking advice I have applied for a Judicial review.  We [...]

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Absurd Birth Scenes - Village Of The Damned

Absurd Birth Scenes – Village Of The Damned

By Lisa Barrett on August 18, 2010

If you thought hospital births were a bit impersonal wait until you get a load of village of the damned. This movie has a birth scene where 8 woman give birth simultaneously! Remember MASH? Replace the screaming, wounded soldiers with women in labour and you’ll get the picture.

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Medical Veto - We Own Your Birth

Medical Veto – We Own Your Birth

By Lisa Barrett on August 13, 2010

After lots of births I am rested enough to blog.
There have been a number of blows to midwives over the past few weeks:

The government gave medical veto over women/midwives to the medical establishment.
The Nurses Board of Australia backed it up by forsaking the very crappy recommendations of the Government and adopting the even crappier rules of the MIGA insurance. [...]

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Absurd Birth Scenes - The Meaning Of Life

Absurd Birth Scenes – The Meaning Of Life

By Lisa Barrett on August 2, 2010

After Knocked Up and Apocalypto I thought a more absurd movie birth scene was in order. But the birth scene parody in Monty Python’s Meaning Of Life is more accurate than anyone dare imagine. If you’ve had an obstetric hospital birth that you’d rather forget, prepare for some nasty flash backs.

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Post Script for Brydda's birth

Post Script for Brydda’s birth

By Lisa Barrett on August 2, 2010

The story I posted up a few days ago had been written a few months ago.  I’m not sure why I held onto it but it felt right at the time.
The birthing woman would like me to add this as a post script, however I thought it deserved it’s own post.

I wanted to add a small postscript to my birth [...]

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Brydda's story

Brydda’s story

By Lisa Barrett on July 30, 2010

I admire this woman for writing her birth story.  A birth that she found difficult , when I read the story I feel the raw energy I felt on the day of the birth.  I also feel the need to justify my actions in the story.  Not because I was at another birth initially but because I actually manipulated the [...]

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Maternity Coalition Update.

By Lisa Barrett on July 27, 2010

I haven’t blogged these updates as the whole thing is very depressing, it’s also terrible some midwives would be willing to give up the right of women to birth with anyone or noone in the comfort of their own home,
IMPORTANT update from Maternity Coalition:
The medical veto over Medicare for midwives is now law.
Sun 25 July 2010
The Government’s $120 million national [...]

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Absurd Birth Scenes - Apocalypto

Absurd Birth Scenes – Apocalypto

By Lisa Barrett on July 14, 2010

When Mel Gibson made Apocalypto I don’t think women were his target audience. It’s a very barbaric movie. But those women who did endure its horrific violence were treated to a hidden gem of a birth scene – and a waterbirth no less.

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On yer bike says Homebirth dad

On yer bike says Homebirth dad

By Lisa Barrett on July 11, 2010

This Appeared in the Mountain Bike Magazine Enduro  written by a regular Contributor, I have reproduced it here for two reasons,
1. It’s a wonderful story by a lovely man, and not too many men write about birth in any magazine let alone a biking one.
2. I am made mention of so it definitely counts for my blog.
I am lucky enough [...]

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Next Meeting
14th July 2010