BaBs Archives - Birth Connection

Continuity of Care

by Pernille
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| preparing for birth
21/06/2012

When I was recently at the ‘Nambour Markets’ promoting our Face of Birth screening night on Friday, where we will also be raising awareness of continuity models of midwifery care, I was again reminded that so many women don’t know their options, before choosing a care provider, and even more seem to just choose what is culturally trendy and safe i.e. what their friends did – private hospital and obstetric care. This is despite all research and evidence pointing to midwifery led continuity of care, being the one where women report greatest satisfaction, has least intervention and the best outcomes....
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Movie screening and continuity of care info night

by Pernille
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| BaBs
07/06/2012

Midwife Australia is proud to invite you to the movie screening of the popular movie “FACE OF BIRTH“and “continuity of midwifery care information night” This event is all about raising awareness of choices in childbirth and the benefits of continuity of care. The event also celebrates 5 years for our local Sunshine Coast BaBs group, (a program of the Maternity Coalition), which is a peer support mothers group for both pregnant women, and new Mums of all kinds, and will be raising money to keep BaBs going for another 5. As such we are holding a MEGA Raffle with 50-60 great...
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Ourselves as Women

by Pernille
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| BaBs
05/06/2012

I came home on Monday after a beautiful BaBs session, feeling so inspired to get better at looking after myself. Our topic this Month was: “Ourselves as women, how do we keep the woman part of ourselves alive, while being busy mothering”? It was a great session, which touched us all and I am sure you can relate as well. How do you look after yourself and what do you do, to keep that part of your being alive that doesn’t have to do with mothering? We once had a woman coming to BaBs who was pregnant with number 11....
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Do not ‘bring up’ children

by Pernille
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| parenting
21/04/2012

This article was written by Jesper Juul and translated by Hayes van der Meer – FamilyLab Australia/New Zealand –www.familylab.com.au It was probably easier raising children centuries ago. Ideas and methods only changed slightly from one generation to the next. Parents simply raised their children the way they had been raised themselves. They knew what to do and how to do it. …Until recently! Since 1990s a new major trend has been introduced every four years or so. In a highly chaotic fashion the media, mothers’ groups, friends and experts have developed and introduced new techniques with rapid speed. These fads, which many of them become,...
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Fear of Birth

by Pernille
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| preparing for birth
20/04/2012

Women have birthed babies successfully for millenniums. We don’t know if they were scared. Some of them probably were. It would be pretty unnatural not to have worries and even fear of something so epic and unknown in many ways. The difference, I suppose is that women in the past, partly was part of birth from a very early age, as birth just happened in amongst life in general, but they also had women around them, who they knew, had relationships with and whom they had seen help other women to birth. This, I imagine, must have provided some sort...
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Writing your birth preferences

by Pernille
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| BaBs, birth, Birth Preferences, choosing your care giver, interventions, preparing for birth
02/12/2010

‘You can’t plan your birth’. It might seem like a funny statement to make at the start of a post about writing your birth preferences. Birth has it’s own mysterious ways and we can never predict how in might go. That said, I want to make some comments and let you know about the discussion and the great ideas that came out in our Monday BaBs session about ‘writing your birth preferences’. When you sit down to write what you would like and wont like during labour and birth, think about this exercise as a ‘motivator’ to learn about birth...
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Induction

by Pernille
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| birth
24/08/2010

This Monday we had Midwife and Lecturer Rachel Reed at BaBs to talk about Induction. Induction is one of the most common birth interventions in our modern world. App.1/4 of births in Queensland are medically induced and app. 20% of the remaining women, who go into labour spontaneously, have medication to speed up their labour. This is an awful lot of women having one medication or another to make labour come quicker or happen faster. This is a very busy world 🙂 Our talks at BaBs are never about whether it is right or wrong to choose a particular intervention...
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Facing the fear

by Pernille
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| preparing for birth
07/09/2009

I wanted to write something about fear. Today at BaBs (Birthing and babies Community group) our topic was ‘Ceasarean, what is it, and how to have a good one’. And no pregnant women turned up! So we were sitting there with three women, two who had their babies at home and one who came especially because she had two ‘good’ ceasareans. We had the most interesting and very passionate discussion about ceasareans though, and how women who have had one get treated by other women. And we talked a whole lot about preparing for birth and facing the fact that...
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