tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594356981285481270.post5123877092570373293..comments2023-08-12T05:40:31.182-04:00Comments on On the road with Barbara Harper<br> Teaching, Mentoring & Musing about birth & babies: Tacit or Terse: Gaining Hospital Approval of Birth PoolsBarbara Harperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12474190501413058265noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594356981285481270.post-65441792983334222982008-08-10T04:28:00.000-04:002008-08-10T04:28:00.000-04:00Hello all, talk about deja vu. I am a midwife in t...Hello all, talk about deja vu. I am a midwife in the Riverland South Australia and have a very determined primip 32 yo who wants desperately to have a water birth at home and an enjoyable life experience. She has come to me at 30weeks and has begged me to help her. I have not delivered a baby since 1995,and had my last baby in 2004,but I am sure ,as in nursing, the basic human physiology has not changed ( not since I looked! LOL )I was lucky to have trained both nursing and midwifery hopital based in a very pro midwife environment , we also had a NICU. <BR/>I am confident of my skills as I have worked in the outback where you are it most of the time until a doctor can be found or flown in. I desperately want to help this woman and am afraid she is so determined that she may go thru with it at home with her partner unassisted. I have said that I will provide her antenatal sessions and info privately ,she is being lectured by both midwives and doctors re her wishes,pressure she does not need. Then she informed them she was going to be having antenatal sessions with me and I have received phonecalls from a particular doctor (who was a sit in med-student for my first pregnancy!)at home basically warding me off. He also contacted the South Australian Nurses board and gave my friend the name and number of someone there to contact regarding waterbirth and I can only assume me. I am due to renew my prac certificate this month and anticipate having some problems!?I also had my CV into the Regional hospital for a casual midwife position and have been informed off the record by a very sympathetic midw manager that my services although needed would not be considered if I continued to support this delivery choice. I discussed the whole circus with the woman and her partner in question so they could vent their<BR/>concerns. I was so internally enraged that I told her I would be happy to assist her delivery at home in birthing pool and suggested they might return to the doctor concerned and tell him that they had a change of heart and would be now delivering in hospital. I added if she felt uncomfortable with going about getting people off her back by having to lie then that was ok by me also. I, like this woman petitioning in question, am at my ropes end. I would really like to know how all her petitioning served the cause.<BR/>Nat Petri RN RMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com