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	<title>Private Midwifery in Sydney &#187; Epidural</title>
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		<title>The Unkindest Cut: Countdown to a C-Section</title>
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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>First-time mums learn the hard way: informed mums choose private midwives</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article has suggested that first-time mums have overly unrealistic ideas about their birth &#8211; that it will be a natural, uncomplicated birth, when in reality it is not, for the majority. We know that women choosing care through the general hospital system will experience high rates of interventions, leading ultimately to a caesarean. But few women know that if they engage a private midwife for a hospital or homebirth, they will experience much lower rates of intervention, but with the same level of safety. Care with an eligible private midwife will attract medicare benefits, and obstetric care is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank this doc for the episiotomy you won’t have</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:27:14 +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 When you picture a birth activist, you probably imagine a 20-something woman marching in the streets with an enormous belly. You are less likely to envision a 70-something academic and grandfather. And yet physician Michael C. Klein has had – and continues to have – a remarkable impact on the lives of mothers and babies around the world. Klein is the first to admit that he owes a good measure of the birthing wisdom that first sparked his career to a group of midwives he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labouring over options for pain relief</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 18:16:12 +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 Ma.Fe Jackson didn’t want to miss any part of the birthing experience, so she refused to have an epidural &#8230; “Childbirth is very, very painful, but that’s normal and it’s only for a short time,” says the new mom who gave birth in February to first baby, Angelique. Jackson is Filipino and most Filipinos don’t have epidurals, she explains. Besides, she’s scared of needles, which is how an epidural is administered. Pain may be a normal part of childbirth, but most North American women today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Childbirth: More Labor Interventions, Same Outcomes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 18:05:53 +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 Hospitals vary considerably in the frequency with which they induce labor and perform Caesarean sections. But a new study finds that these differences do not seem to affect how newborns fare in these facilities. Dr. J. Christopher Glantz, a professor of obstetrics at the University of Rochester, reviewed records of almost 30,000 births &#8230; Some hospitals relied heavily on induced labor and Caesarean sections, while others performed the procedures much less often. Dr. Glantz measured neonatal outcomes in three ways: whether a child was moved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for ban follows horrific epidural error</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:06:32 +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 SKIN antiseptics should be banned completely from the sterile equipment table used during epidural procedures to prevent them being injected by accident, recommends an internal Health Department investigation &#8230; Antiseptics should be distinctively coloured so they could not be mistaken for the saline solution injected into the spinal column &#8230;. And anaesthetic procedures should be standardised across all NSW hospitals &#8230; The report into the accident &#8230; also contains harrowing new details of how the two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Given Control, Women Use Less Epidural Anesthesia During Delivery</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:06:54 +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 If women are given control of the amount of epidural anesthesia they get during labor and delivery, they use about 30 percent less medication than when given a standard dose from a doctor &#8230; &#8220;We looked at patient-controlled epidural anesthesia, and found the women were basically as comfortable as women on a continuous dose, and there was a 30 percent reduction in the amount of anesthesia used,&#8221; &#8230; &#8230; The study found no differences in the time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Childbirth deaths from spinal anesthesia rising</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:39:37 +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 number of U.S. women who die from anesthesia complications during childbirth has fallen sharply in recent decades. But deaths specifically related to so-called regional anesthesia, which includes epidurals and spinal blocks, have crept upward since the mid-1990s &#8230; &#8230; such deaths remain rare. But &#8230; the results point to an area where anesthesia can be made safer for women. &#8230; Regional anesthesia is considered quite safe. But in rare cases, patients can have a severe allergic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obstetrical anesthesia: new data on the risks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 18:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link Virtually all Los Angeles hospitals offer epidural anesthesia to patients in labor. It allows a remarkable degree of comfort from labor pains &#8230;; unfortunately, it is not without risk. In many cases, anesthesia is optional; however, it is a necessity for a cesarean delivery. A new study &#8230; reviewed 12 years of obstetrical anesthesia-related deaths &#8230; The authors reported 86 deaths that were associated with complications of anesthesia; these deaths represented 1.6% of total pregnancy-related deaths. Pregnancy-related mortality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;We know the reality of childbirth&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link A new report on NHS maternity care has revealed divisions between midwives and obstetricians. One of the disputes &#8230; is over the best way to give birth. While midwives, and the government, advocate natural birth, many female obstetricians opt for a caesarean when they have their own children. Do they know something we don&#8217;t? &#8230; Sher, 38, chose an elective caesarean &#8230; because she decided it was the safest method &#8230; Sher makes decisions on delivery and surgery [...]]]></description>
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