I created this page because I wanted somewhere for people to share a few words without it being related to a specific blog entry.
So maybe you
- Have a blog or know of a website you'd like to share with us.
- Have a birth story or a homebirth question.
- Are a midwife or a student midwife and would like to discuss some aspect of midwifery.
- Have some ideas that would improve my blog.
Or maybe you are just passing by and want to say hi.
No matter what I'd love to hear from you.Lisa
37 comments:
Thank you for finally having a real web presence!
I look forward to reading lots more.
Hey Lisa
You are a warrior for women, babies and their partners. I thankyou for your contribution to SA and Australia will not go unoticed and has impacted so many lives already. Thanks for a wonderful birth nearly two whole years ago. Love your guts
Dani, Dom and Isaac xxx
Love the site Lisa! So fabulous - I almost want to become pregga again just to have the whole amazing, empowering and nuturing experience that you helped facilitate for Greg, Tilly and me. i would def encourage all half interested in home birth to INVESTIGATE MORE!!!! I found it to be the most fabulous, safe, empowering and wonderful experience. I'm preparing to write our Birth Story - will fwd to you when done. lots of love.
Jess
xXX
Lisa! Next baby of mine, you're catching it!!!
Dduwies ymysg benywod.
Hi -- I just discovered your blog this morning, and I'm quite enjoying it. Especially the pictures!
Your a true Angel! So worthy of fighting this tough Maternity Battle, and dispelling so many wrong myths. Your a god-send for all of us Mothers and Midwives xoxox Rose
Hello! from Burkina Faso. I just bookmarked your site. What fabulous courage - - I'm looking forward to reading your soapbox. Truth in birth is quite new in BF as this developing country is being colonized by biotech birth notions. I hope to take courage from your example to speak up more often and more loudly.
with gratitude,
Maggie
maiasong. Thank you for reading. It's always amazing to find true birth keepers like yourself in the most unusual places. I was I'm afraid unaware of BF before today. There again I'm from Wales originally and that's a small country too.
Tell us more about your experiences.
MORE BIRTH STORIES, MORE BIRTH STORIES, I'VE GOTTA HAVE MORE BIRTH STORIES!!! (WINK) I AM ADDICTED TO READING THEM AND I HAVE READ JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING ON YOUR SITE-SO INFORMATIVE AND GREAT TO READ-I AM ADDICTED TO YOUR HOME BIRTH STORIES-I LOVE TO READ THEM FROM THE MOTHERS VIEW AND WOULD LOVE TO HEAR THE MIDWIVES VIEW SOMETIME (WINK AGAIN) I HOPE YOU KEEP SHININ' ON!!! to introduce myself, I am just barely getting around the bloggin world,very new to it, but if you are interested in checking me out, please feel free. My blog is www.tie-dyeddoula.blogspot.com and my web is www.babymoondoulas.org
Peace!!
ssealing@cfaith.com
Hi Lisa! I was directed to your site by a friend and have just spent like the last 4 or so hours reading everything! :D
I have just found out I am expecting my 4th child in Dec.
My 1st birth was in a normal labour ward - and not at all what I wanted. Unfortunately at that stage I just took what hospital staff said! My 2nd & 3rd were both waterbirths in the birthing centre at Flinders. They were simply fabulous!
This time round I am hoping to go a homebirth so your site has been wonderful!
Thank you so much for your info!
I think you are making a great decision considering a homebirth. Feel free to get in touch with me at anytime. If you'd like to chat to others who have had an independent midwifery care, our coffee morning on the 7th ( next wednesday) at The Brown dog, Goodwood Road, is a great place to catch up in a totally informal and relaxed way.
Your blog is just so beautiful!! What has prompted me to write, though, is that I dreamed I was attending a birth last night, and you were there! Wild, huh? In my dream, I thought it odd that you had flown all the way from Australia to attend this birth, but it didn't seem to phase you in my dream.
Your blog is by far my favorite midwifery blog on the net. Thank you!!!!
Thanks Rad midwife. I am waiting until you are feeling up to writing once more on your own blog.
xxx
Hey Lisa,
Awesome site!! Now I can see why we haven't been seeing you on ozmid much lately. Great work!
Hi Lisa,
I have a question, I hope you don't mind.
I have high blood pressure, as does my mum. I am fit, average weight/height (62kg/172cm)and have normal cholesterol levels. I take medication for the high BP, however I find as I am getting older (29) it is improving. On days when I am super relaxed, I have low BP! This has been for around a year now so maybe there is hope. Anyway, my question is: Is it dangerous for me to have a baby. I ask this, because I have had at least 5 women in their mid 60's (aunties or family friends-some who have been hospital midwives) express concern over me wanting to have a baby, let alone out of a hospital! Is it true that I will have to lie in bed for 9 months and even with that, still risk my life to start a family? I'm sure it's a silly question but I am interested in your point of view of this issue. Thank you very much for a fantastic blog by the way.
Alice
Hi there, essential hypertension that is already controlled by medication only needs to be monitored during pregnancy like any other. It is not the same as pre eclampsia. You are at a slightly higher risk of getting pre eclampsia but really if you are having regular checks then you would know as you went along if a problem was brewing. Better to deal with it as it arises than worry about it in advance. The risk is between 2 and 11% which is still a high chance of not getting a problem and shouldn't stop you from planning the birth you want.
Quite often you get an initial lowering of bp in pregnancy with a raise at the end. Your midwife will just look at it regularly and can collaborate with specialists if it was any sort of issue.
I also wanted to add, looking at your diet and fitness health is really important during your pregnancy, being proactive about getting advice through natural sources such as a naturopath can help your overall health.
Hi Lisa,
Carly here from JB;)
Love this Blog!
Such important information for women.
Just wanted to ask how you added pdf files?
Thanks
Hi Carly, I got an account with scribd uploaded them there and then linked to them.
Bon voyage Lisa!! I hope you remembered to put your knitting away before you got on the plane!
Bon Voyage, Lisa. I hope you remembered to put your knitting away before you got on the plane!
I would love for you to put some info up on twin births!! anything you've got....
I'm so impressed with the attitude towards birth on this site.
I really think the hospital attitude needs to change for low risk pregnancies. I'm not ready for kids yet, but I will really consider home birth/minimal intervention.
I want to thank you and all the families that have shared their birth stories through your website.
I’ve been slowly working my way through your posts over the last couple of weeks and have been inspired to really thoroughly re-consider what I “know” about birth/pregnancy, and in the process have been learning so much about myself.
Thank you for sharing yourself and your craft so freely. You’ve given a couple, thinking about starting a family in the future, options that we didn’t know we had and we’re eternally grateful!
Hello Lisa!
I found your absolutely amazing blog when I googled on ”resuscitation”.
I am a Swedish grandmother who has spent the last 18 months, since I attended my granddaughter`s hospital birth in April 07, trying to convince all people in Sweden who are responsible for the routines in maternity hospitals to stop early cord clamping - and finally I have succeeded!!!
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsvt.se%2Fsvt%2Fjsp%2FCrosslink.jsp%3Fd%3D22620%26a%3D1282845%26lid%3Dpuff_1282858%26lpos%3Drubrik&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&sl=sv&tl=en
Unfortunatley the national guidelines for cord clamping , witch were presented last Friday, do not include resuscitation with intact cord. So my crusade against early cord clamping continues until even this will be included.
Today I put a link to the resuscitation contribution on your blog into my own Swedish blog http://blogg.aftonbladet.se/15613/perma/996953/
And even on a family community http://www.familjeliv.se/Forum-2-13/m36407096.html
, where I since last year have informed expectant parent on the risks on early cord clamping , I today put up 3 of your blog contributions – the breech births and the absolutely amazing twin birth.
I hope you don´t mind.
Blessings
Linda Morge
lindamorge@hotmail.com
Thank you for your mail Linda, I'm more than happy that you used some of my posts.
Lisa
Thank you for your answer Lisa. I´m glad you didn’t mind that I used some of your posts, and that you instead are happy ;)
I got a mail today from an obstetrician who had seen the pics of the baby who was resuscitated, and she wondered why the baby was still so pale when it had started breathing, and wanted me to ask you if you’ve got any pictures of this baby when it has turned pink.
Linda
The full set of pics were taken before 1min. At one min and 20 secs baby was totally pink.
http://www.homebirth.net.au/2008/03/breech-variation-of-normal.html this is the birth. Lovely baby picture at the end of the post
Thanks so much Lisa ;)
I forwarded your answer to the Obstetrician (Judy Mercer. I have frequent mail contact with her and the other people in http://www.birth-brain-injury.org/ since last summer), and now comes her next question:
“That is great. If she could add one picture of the baby fully recovered (she
should be pinker than her mom) that would add a great deal to her pictorial evidence of full recovery on an intact cord after distress.
Maybe she can do this.
Thank so much Linda”
Linda
I was more than happy to show the pictures of the baby recovered nicely. Tell the Ob that although I thank her for her contribution I am perfectly happy with my post just as it is. As I said the baby was pink by 1min. An apgar of 4 or 5 is fairly common with a breech, this was not really distress. Apgar at 1min and 20 secs was fine. As you can see the woman didn't even need to leave the water.
Thankyou so much for this blog - It has made me REALLY want a home birth next time! (Now just to convince hubby! Any tips?) Not pregnant at moment, but I love all the stories and info on here!
Just get a midwife to come and speak with you both when you are pregnant. There is a great dad a homebirth post on here. He must read it!!
I can see you are in South Australia, we have our coffee morning tomorrow why don't you come along. Children are welcome and you don't have to be pregnant, many are not, lots of people just come because we are all so nice.
it's from 9.30 at Serves you right on Unley Road.
Hi Lisa,
Sorry in advance for the length of this letter.
I've been one of your very loyal readers since the beginning of this year, and like you, I'm passionate about homebirth.
I'm now 2-month pregnant (1st baby), and I would love a homebirth (I'm very healthy). Problem is that my partner is scared and would love a birth centre instead ("in case anything goes wrong we would already be at the hospital, and would save time"). The closest hospital is only a 10-15 minute drive from home. He read some stories of babies dying during homebirths and thinks that he would never forgive himself if anything went wrong at home.
We met an independent midwife specialised in homebirth and had a very good contact with her. And to show him I was open minded, I accepted to visit the local birth centre. We explained our differences of view to the birth centre midwife. She answered "well, have a homebirth then, it's as safe as a birth centre, and trust your wife's body". Of course I was very happy to hear that and my partner wasn't...
It wasn't enough to convince my partner.
I'm so sad, and don't want to compromise. We are going through a big crisis because of this. And of course my partner's family doesn't encourage the idea of a homebirth :-( and their opinion is important to him.
Lisa, do you have any experience of partners changing their mind during pregnancy (birth centre to homebirth)? Do you have any ideas of what we could do to help him work on his fears?
Thanks for your time Lisa. And keep going with this fantastic blog!
Milie from Sydney
Quite Honestly Millie, the men are the most skeptical to start with and the best advocates afterwards. There is a great book by Dave Vernon called Men at birth, maybe you could get him to read it. I also think the post seven secrets of a homebirth dad which is on this blog is a must read. Did you tell your husband that babies die at the hospital, you would never forgive yourself then either. You don't leave risk at the door when you enter the hospital you take it with you and add so much more.
Maybe you could get him to talk to some partners who have been at homebirths and get them to talk with him. Ask the midwife I'm sure she could find some.
Men always have the same concerns and questions, what equipment do you bring?what is something goes wrong? what if she's bleeding to death? It is better if you could find a man to talk this through with him.
Dear Lisa,
Thanks a lot for your reply and your support.
I'll definitely buy Men at birth, and my partner is happy to talk to contacts (provided by my midwife) who had homebirths...and were transfered to the hospital.
I'm sure it will be great for him to share his feelings with some men.
We have now chosen a midwife and I am about to start prenatal care. Hopefully my partner will finally relax about homebirth and trust me...
Good luck Lisa for all these births happening at the same time!
Milie
Dear Lisa,
Thank you for all your helpful information and support published in your blog and given to me when talking to you.
I am very thankful that I got to meet you. You are a very important source of information for me being pregnant for the first time and therefore my constant reassurance that my gut feelings about myself and my abilities as a mum are right. And it is a great pleasure for me to read not only your posts but especially your comments referring to OB and other practices.
I have read your recent post about the article published in the Australian referring to the government pushing for more acceptance of midwifery services with huge interest. I really hope that some more people, doctors, government and insurances start using their gut feeling and brain soon to return to better practices for giving birth to healthy babies and to make life so much easier for expecting mums.
I really hope that more pregnant women will remember their women's wisdom and will be lucky enough to be supported by you or one of your colleagues.
Hello and thank you for all your wonderful work. A friend of mine passed your blog onto me and I love it. I wanted to pass on a blog about homebirth from a father to be's perspective:
www.unorthodoxdad.com
Enjoy!
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