Dan was jogging along about 300 metres behind everyone else. My heart sank! The crowd went really quiet as the round of applause for the winners died down but he never gave [...]
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I met Akemi only a week before she gave birth but her birth was one of the most transformative births I have attended as a doula. Here’s her story from my perspective as her [...] How are women supposed to think of birth as normal and achievable if all they hear are horror stories of forceps, vacuum extractors and undignified, unsupported labours with women forced to lie on their backs, legs spread for all the world to see? The beautiful birth I had with my last baby (after two previous caesarean sections—one emergency and one elective) is such a rare experience in the private sector, let alone the public sector. [...] Within a couple of days, the aftershocks struck. A friend came by and changed his nappy. I just let her take over but something inside of me wanted to say “he’s mine, I think. Maybe I should be doing that.” But I couldn’t say it because, at that point, I felt like I had to ask everyone’s permission to do anything for him. The day after L was born, the obstetrician walked in, patted me on the leg and said “not going to have a big family then are we!” I was devastated. Childhood memories of tearing about the house with my three siblings were something I wanted for my own brood and I definitely wanted a brood, at least four! I suddenly felt robbed of that. It was as if she was saying birth was no good for me and that I should quit while I was ahead. [...] On Thursday 6 November, 2008, I gave a presentation entitled ‘The VBAC Wars’ at the Australian Midwifery Expo in Brisbane and then again at the Birth After Caesarean Internventions (BACI) Consortium Seminar at University of Technology in Sydney, NSW in April, 2009. Since then, Queensland Health as instituted a new VBAC policy which not only promotes active management of labour but shows no respect for women’s autonomy over their own bodies. Despite a huge amount of feedback detailing the flaws and issues with the draft policy by consumer groups such as Caesarean Awareness Network Australia, the International Caesarean Awareness Network, and Maternity Coalition, the new policy went ahead, unchanged. [...]
The first time I went to Birthtalk, I was pregnant with my second baby, and I was feeling broken. Up until that point, I had thought that the trauma of my first birth was my fault and that I was defective. I felt alone and scared and didn’t think anyone else would understand [...]
Professional birth support (doula) in the Ipswich, West and South West Brisbane areas. What is a doula? Doula is Greek for “woman’s servant.” And, quite literally, the doula’s role is to serve you by providing emotional, informational and physical support to assist you in achieving your best birth. What does a doula [...] |
   
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