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	<title>Private Midwifery in Sydney &#187; VBAC</title>
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	<description>The blog of Melissa Maimann: a Medicare-eligible midwife in Sydney.</description>
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		<title>The Unkindest Cut: Countdown to a C-Section</title>
		<link>http://www.sydneymidwife.com.au/2012/01/the-unkindest-cut-countdown-to-a-c-section/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-unkindest-cut-countdown-to-a-c-section</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link &#8230; “Usually I start off by telling people my C-section started even before I got to the hospital &#8230; &#8230; Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns had the highest rate of cesarean section deliveries in San Diego County in 2009. The California average was 29.8 per 100 births; at Sharp Mary Birch, the rate was 37.7. &#8230; At 40 weeks &#8230; Cooper-Schultz’s water broke, though she was not in labor. In a birthing class &#8230; they told her, we have to get the baby out within 24 hours. So she and her husband went to the hospital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inducing labor doesn’t raise risk of uterine rupture in VBAC</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link Inducing labor doesn’t increase the risk of uterine rupture, once length of labor is taken into account, in women attempting vaginal delivery after a cesarean delivery &#8230; &#8230; After accounting for length of labor using a time-to-event analysis, researchers found that the risk of uterine rupture with induced labor was similar to that of spontaneous labor &#8230; Women with an initial unfavorable cervical exam (]]></description>
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		<title>Unneeded cesareans are risky and expensive</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link Cesarean deliveries are over-used &#8230; and reducing the number of surgical births would save health-care dollars and protect women’s health. Those are the conclusions of a new white paper issued today by the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative. &#8230; in the last 15 years, the rate of surgical birth has increased from 22 to 32 percent of California deliveries with no measurable benefits for new mothers or their babies. This is a concern because cesareans aren’t risk-free. After surgical delivery, women experience more pain, infection and hemorrhage than women who give birth vaginally. Women who have had a prior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caesarean section?  Vaginal birth?  Your choice!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit my website to explore homebirth and hospital birth. Much has been said and written about an article in The Age this weekend. The article is about a randomised study that will compare the outcomes of 500 women who choose a caesarean and 500 women who choose a vaginal birth. The study will explore psychological and physical outcomes for the women and their babies, including depression and breastfeeding rates. It will only compare vaginal births with caesareans for healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies. The study has created much debate, including issues of ethics (beneficence, autonomy, non-maleficence) and professional duty of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Factors affecting vaginal birth after previous cesarean</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit my website to explore home birth, hospital birth and Medicare-funded private midwifery care. A recent article about factors affecting vaginal birth after previous cesarean has identified some key recommendations for clinical practice as a result of the reviews: Given the potential adverse health risks posed by caesarean sections for both mothers and babies, further work is necessary to lower the rate of repeat caesareans. Hospitals should implement evidence-based local guidelines to increase the uptake and success of VBACs. They should also implement VBAC decisional aids and develop specific clinics in existing antenatal clinics to provide women with clear and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expectant mothers need facts, not fear</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit my website to explore home birth, hospital birth and Medicare-funded private midwifery care. Link Here we go again. A debate about home vs hospital birth. There is only one thing &#8230; that&#8217;s more emotive than where you give birth to a baby, and that is how you feed it. This week, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists &#8230; proposed that more women give birth away from doctors and hospitals. I really want to see how this works, because if there&#8217;s anyone more scared of home births than the parents, it&#8217;s doctors and midwives. (Note: not all, I know.) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>QLD: Mums-to-be pushed into caesareans with private hospitals leading the way</title>
		<link>http://www.sydneymidwife.com.au/2011/06/qld-mums-to-be-pushed-into-caesareans-with-private-hospitals-leading-the-way/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=qld-mums-to-be-pushed-into-caesareans-with-private-hospitals-leading-the-way</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 18:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit my website to explore home birth, hospital birth and Medicare-funded private midwifery care. Link SOME of the state&#8217;s biggest private hospitals are performing caesareans on more than half the women giving birth &#8230; The caesarean rates among the highest in the country were uncovered in hospital birth statistics from 2007-2010 obtained by The Sunday Mail under Right to Information laws. Queensland&#8217;s &#8220;caesars palace&#8221; was the North West Brisbane Private Hospital, which performed the surgery on 56.8 per cent of women giving birth. Toowoomba&#8217;s St Vincent&#8217;s Hospital and The Wesley Hospital in Brisbane rounded out the Top 3, with rates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pioneering Collaborative Private Maternity Care: Continuity, woman-centered, personalised, safe.</title>
		<link>http://www.sydneymidwife.com.au/2011/04/2601/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=2601</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our brand new model of care – launched for the first time in Australia – has recently welcomed its third baby. So far, three families have benefited from a collaborative model of private maternity care that enables women to have care with a private midwife (with Medicare funding) and also develop a trusting and nurturing relationship with a Specialist Obstetrician who is available for the pregnancy, labour and birth. Our service has so far supported an empowered birth after caesarean, a waterbirth and a natural birth. All within a hospital setting, with all the support available that is occasionally needed. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New guidelines give C-section moms a choice of vaginal delivery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MEDICARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR MIDWIFERY CARE THROUGH THIS SERVICE! Visit my website to explore home birth, hospital birth and Medicare-funded private midwifery care. Link Recent changes in national guidelines are prompting more women with C-section scars to choose to try to birth subsequent children vaginally, and more providers willing to offer the choice &#8230; &#8220;I think we&#8217;ve seen the bottom of the pendulum with the VBAC rate, and it will swing the other way,&#8221; said Dr. George Macones, an expert in the safety of a vaginal birth after Caesarean. &#8230; Despite research that estimates 60 percent to 80 percent of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mom Has Home Birth After 3 C-Sections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or Medicare-funded private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link The CNN headline has now been changed, but it originally asked if mother Aneka of Maryland was a &#8220;hero or a danger?&#8221; for defying doctor&#8217;s orders and refusing to go in for a scheduled c-section after what she now realizes were three unnecessary previous c-sections, and choosing instead to birth with a midwife in her home. &#8230; She saw Ricki Lake&#8217;s The Business of Being Born documentary that really questions birth in the United States, and it [...]]]></description>
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