My husband and computer genius is changing my blog. When finished it will be the most spectacular site on natural birth EVER. I have partly been put off blogging just due to the fact that he has to move all my words to his new baby. The children and now not only childbirth orphans but blog orphans too. For 2 weeks he has been reconstructing and had to change the link to every picture on my blog. he has almost finished but it’s been a full time occupation for him. Thank goodness that all our children can cook.
I have birthed at home this week with a woman who had a fantastic birth of a double footling breech. We knew that the baby was breech so we were all prepared. How will women like this birth in the new model of supermidwives with masters degrees and collaborative agreements (and obviously no dreads).
You can find out more from my slides of a footling breech in the water
Here’s a breech birth video
New Canadian guidelines on breech
How will we be able to keep the information networks alive, keeping women informed of their options and confident in their ability to birth? I will hopefully be able to expand my traditional midwifery workshops in the near future to ensure that things I know will be passed on.
Last week we attended a workshop and information session the NHMRC project This was to find out what we all think about collaboration. That isn’t exactly what I saw.
Really, they wanted to find out how much we would be willing to give up in order to keep our registration(better known as a multi disciplinary team). The two women running the forum were lovely, helpful and positive but only see collaboration as a one way street. Us getting a doctors permission to BE. I pointed out that if both us and Obs signed a collaborative agreement surely they would be duty bound to refer any woman who wanted a drug free natural birth/waterbirth/twins/breech/vbac to the independent midwife they were collaborating with. Collaboration is a two way street. What they are talking about is control. I really hope that they bring this up at the forum in Canberra, they said it was a concept they hadn’t thought about. WHAT? you only have to look collaboration up in the dictionary – Collaboration is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together in an intersection of common goals-
We need a few less buzz words and a better understanding of the english language.
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Lisa, you are such an inspiration and I only know you via reputation and your blog and fb. I am just finishing 2nd year Mid at Flinders and am buddies with Luci and Co… I had such a dream of becoming a Naturopathic Midwife (I also finished a degree in Comp Med this year)and have been so shattered by what is happening politically for Midwives this year, to the point of giving up! But you give me hope and I am really looking forward to your workshop in January and ready to soak up all your knowledge and wisdom which I will eventually probably have to take overseas… and that’s not what the Maternity Services Review was about was it?… I thought they wanted to train and KEEP Midwives in Australia??
Looking forward to meeting you in January
oh YAY you. Profesionals ,like me , can get soo caught up in our own academic dialogue and paradigm and process we assume we know what were talking about…
Can’t wait to see the new blog look.
Congrats on another breech baby born vaginally. Without midwives attending home breech birth, no one would ever have questioned the poorly done breech studies that have led to so many unnecesareans.
If midwives give even an inch of their autonomy away in negotiations, they never get it back. Midwifery autonomy is not negotiable. Homebirth is not negotiable. The laws must to reflect that things are done at “the midwife’s discretion”.
Geez I’m glad you are my midwife again!! Oh how different my experience could have been with a breech for my first baby and looks like another breech second time round?!
Maybe another video for your wiz bang blog?
Dear food, I can’t really tell whether your comment is sarcasm. Either way, thank you for entering the conversation. Maybe you could reword so we know what you really mean.