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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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Public or Private

by Pernille
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| birth, choosing your care giver
27/10/2010

In Australia today there are a few different options of birth place for women. You can birth in a private hospital, a public hospital, a birth centre, or at home. Not all options are available to women everywhere in Australia and home birth is not funded by the government in Australia at the moment. (But that is another blog post all together.) Yet most couples find that their main decision is whether to go public or private. This post is about the differences between choosing public or private hospitals. In our society today it seems that anything private is perceived...
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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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DVD for Dads

by Pernille
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| preparing for birth
23/10/2009

I recently had the opportunity to borrow those movies called: “Being Dad”. I was very positively surprised by the first one, but it also raised a whole lot of questions in me. The movie shows three or four groups of men talking about their experiences and it is really relaxed and, I think, quite honest talk. It also shows the producer’s own journey as his wife is pregnant as they are filming and we actually see the birth of their daughter. The question it raised in me though is this: what is shown in this movie is very mainstream and...
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