Category Archives: careproviders
Links in the chain
What are you reading and writing? Here’s a few of the things I’ve found to be good reads lately.
Breastfeeding children and women a “low priority” – Western Australian parliament
Remember the protests in Perth last year about Premier Barnett’s party failing to bring WA into line with the rest of Australia with laws protecting breastfeeding families [...]
Breech is just another position
About 4% of babies are in breech positions at term. Of course nowadays the normal course of events is surgery. Is this safe? Realistic? Warranted? Not according to evidence, no.
“Attending births is like growing roses. You have to marvel at the ones that just open up and bloom at the first kiss of the sun, [...]
The Great VBAC Rort
VBAC is an endangered species.
This is not really surprising since vaginal births of all kinds are endangered and it only makes sense that having created a birthing monster of cuts and scars, Dr Frankenstein would be unwilling to let the monster go use it’s body in some way that silly old evolution intended.
But surely, I [...]
Why be an autonomous consumer of the healthcare system?
In recent years as midwife-assisted homebirth has become more topical in the mainstream press, so too freebirth* or family birth, has also become more widely known. Our culture of control over women means that the shock value of women birthing autonomously is on a par with those women who chained themselves to parliament houses [...]
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