South Coast Midwifery Australia

25/10/2024

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21/07/2024

01/07/2024

South Coast Midwifery followers...
We are thrilled to announce 🥁
The new 'Embrace Midwifery Services' has finally arrived!

Cassie along with Nikita and Jo have launched a new venture, combining 40 years of midwifery experience. We can't wait to tell you all about it 📣

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29/06/2024

A wonderful Australian College of Midwives (ACM) Conference in Adelaide.

The focus this year was on continuity of midwifery care 💜

28/06/2024

What did you ‘almost’ name your little one?

28/06/2024

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28/06/2024

What did you 'almost' name your little one?

27/06/2024

Some great advice around promoting and protecting birth physiology…

REPOST:
The recipe for protecting birth physiology is not complex in my opinion…

I was speaking with yesterday about the ‘ingredients’ needed to protect optimal birth physiology and she said:
1. Private
2. Safe
3. Unobserved
… and I’ve added my 3 ‘rules’ for conducting myself (or yourself) within a woman’s birth space (and only if you’ve been invited in… if you haven’t been invited, then you have violated the first 3 rules so, back out of the birth space in a low slow and quiet manner)

4. Low: when in a woman’s birth space, make every attempt to not hover over the top or above her. Get down to her eye level or below. It helps to remind you and hopefully her that she has the power in the space and allows for eye contact and respectful engagement.

5. Slow: avoid rushing around the birth space. Keep the movement of your body slow and purposeful. Unnecessary shuffling and racing about the birth space is distracting to the woman.

6. Quiet: keep your voice to low tones, quiet and unobtrusive so as not to break the birth space with noise. Avoid adding any noise to the space that is not absolutely needed. Before speaking, ask yourself, ‘would my words right now benefit the woman’ if not, you don’t need to say them.

The hormones of labour are shy and need privacy to work well. So if you want to give your body the best chance of a physiological birth, protect your privacy, only invite people and things into your space that makes you feel safer and ensure that your chosen care providers know how to respect the birth space by being unobtrusive, low, slow and quiet
This should continue through to placental birth and the early HOURS after the baby is born.

27/06/2024

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚?

Marginal cord insertion or battledore placenta is an atypical type of umbilical cord attachment during pregnancy. Instead of inserting in the centre of the placenta, the umbilical cord attaches at the margins. The fetus may develop more slowly with this kind of insertion. However, this baby was within a healthy weight range.

A physiological birth of the placenta is beneficial as there is no tension placed on the cord during the delivery.

26/06/2024

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