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Press cuttings
Updated list-in-progress here. Shamed but not named: bad medics use law to hide their identities Paying for negligence: Birth bungles cost $115m in NSW alone Hypervirulent strain of Clostridium difficile in Epworth Hospital in Richmond Melbourne Scared nurses’ secret evidence … Continue reading
What does your uterus really do?
Thanks, Gloria, for sharing this on your blog. How many of us know all the stuff in this video? I sure didn’t! The increase of emergency hysterectomy after caesarean is quite marked in Australia in recent years. Tweet
Collaboration? Oh now I get it. They mean “collaboration”.
One of the big things the government keeps banging on about in its anti-homebirth drive is “collaboration”. You might think that the existing situation – woman hires midwife, woman and midwife seek obstetric surgeon or hospital in the unlikely event … Continue reading
Fate of earth – fate of birth
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Posted in breastfeeding, consumers' rights, parenting, surgical monopoly
Tagged michel odent, robbie davis-floyd
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Gratuitous exhortations of cheeriness
I hope that you remember to sew on a sequin over this weekend of mixed feelings. Tweet
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Australia’s Disease Burden Traced To Low Rates Of Breastfeeding
Australia’s Disease Burden Traced To Low Rates Of Breastfeeding by Gopalan T on 18 August 2010 Australia’s chronic disease burden has been traced to historical barriers to breastfeeding. The research, by Dr Julie Smith and Dr Peta Harvey of the … Continue reading
Posted in breastfeeding, consumers' rights, parenting
Tagged artificial feeding, breastfeeding
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Ways we silence women
This is a beautiful and important post by Heather Armstrong, presented on The Unncessarean. I know many women will relate to it. Unfortunately. Read the rest at the link. Thank you, Heather. Every time this is articulated, another woman comes … Continue reading
Posted in consumers' rights, surgical discourse, surgical monopoly
Tagged caesarean, vbac
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First time birthing women? What do you wish you’d known?
What do you wish you’d known before you’d birthed? What stopped you hearing the nurturing advice you received? One more comment I received when I asked women these questions was: why go to hospital for 15 mins of pushing and … Continue reading
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