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Education: 2012 - 2013 Calendar |
| Date(s) |
Venue |
Workshops and Intensives |
| 2 May 2012 |
Paihia |
The Spirit of Birth - Nature, Nurture & the Evidence |
4 May 2012
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Whangarei
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Waterbirth - The Rising Tide Workshop |
| 29 May 2012 |
Birthspirit Cottage, Tamahere, NZ |
Waiting, Waiting, Waiting ! A Post-dates Workshop FULL |
| 31 May 2012 |
Birthspirit Cottage, Tamahere, NZ |
REARING TO GO! A Breech Birth Workshop FULL |
| 10 Sept 2012 |
Birthspirit Cottage, Tamahere, NZ |
Waiting, Waiting, Waiting ! A Post-dates Workshop |
| 12 Sept 2012 |
Birthspirit Cottage, Tamahere, NZ |
The Spirit of Birth - Nature, Nurture & the Evidence |
| 14 Sept 2012 |
Birthspirit Cottage, Tamahere, NZ |
Waterbirth - The Rising Tide Workshop |
| 17-19 Oct 2012 |
Birthspirit Cottage, Tamahere, NZ |
Midwifery Skills for Emergencies Intensive FULL |
| 7-9 Nov 2012 |
Birthspirit Cottage, Tamahere, NZ |
Midwifery Skills for Emergencies Intensive |
| 19 Nov 2012 |
Birthspirit Cottage, Tamahere, NZ |
REARING TO GO! A Breech Birth Workshop |
| 10-12 Dec 2012 |
Birthspirit Cottage, Tamahere, NZ |
Midwifery Skills for Emergencies Intensive |
| 13-19 Jan 2013 |
Birthspirit Cottage, Tamahere, NZ |
Mind, Body and Spirit Midwifery Workshop |
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Education |
Midwifery Skills for Emergencies Intensives
This is the 10th successive
year of Midwifery Skills for Emergencies Intensives. The practice
issues covered in the Intensive support the development and/or
maintenance of the midwifery skills necessary to deal with emergencies
at home or in other low tech settings. Issues include cord prolapse,
undiagnosed breech presentation, shoulder dystocia, postpartum haemorrhage,
intravenous cannulation, perineal repair (including suturing) and neonatal
resuscitation.
These Intensives are centered on scenario discussions and support evidence-informed practice,
with demonstration of relevant midwifery skills with ample time allowed
for ‘hands on’ practice. The Intensives are live-in workshops
giving opportunities to meet and network with other midwives working
in a variety of midwifery environments throughout (mainly) New Zealand
and Australia.
The Intensives are endorsed by Midwifery Council of New Zealand and the Australian College of Midwives.
See Intensives
dates and registration and further
info
WAITING, WAITING, WAITING! - A Post-dates Workshop
In
1985, in order to stem the tide of increasing medical intervention
during childbirth, the World Health Organisation (WHO) determined
(amongst other things) that no geographical region should have an
induction of labour rate of more than ten percent. To exceed this
rate would reflect the inappropriate use of technology ...The aims of
this workshop are firstly, to enable midwives to develop or enhance
an evidence-informed position on post-dates issues and, secondly,
to explore strategies to providing safe and effective midwifery
care for the woman (and her unborn baby) during a ‘longer’
pregnancy ... further info on the workshop
Waterbirth - The Rising Tide Workshop
Oral history
suggests that the use of water during labour, and birth under water,
were probably known among people as diverse as the ancient Egyptians,
the Indians in Panama, some Pacific Islanders and, perhaps, the
Maoris of New Zealand. ... In ancient Greece Aphrodite, the goddess
of love, was born from the foam of water, while in Cyprus the goddess
of love was born on the beach at Paphos. Jessica Johnson &
Michel Odent, We are all waterbabies, 1995
Wherever you
practice, this Workshop offers you a safe forum to explore and share
the ‘hows, whens, whys and what ifs’ of waterbirthing
... further info on the workshop
REARING TO GO! A Breech Birth Workshop
Women throughout New Zealand regularly report diminished or no support in obstetric hospitals to give birth, without surgical intervention, to their breech-presenting babies. An inability to find willing and skilled practitioners to support informed decision-making is frequently cited as the reason for ‘choosing’ Caesarean section.
The art of facilitating breech birth is a basic midwifery skill taught in undergraduate midwifery programmes. Increasingly, midwives are being called on to support women who plan vaginal breech birth when their breech-presenting babies are diagnosed in pregnancy. ... further info on the workshop
The Spirit of Birth: Nature, Nurture & the Evidence
The World Health Organisation framed the ‘Birth is not an illness’ statement over two decades ago identifying that at least 85 percent of women should be able to give birth without medical intervention. In the last two decades, women in New Zealand have experienced escalating levels of intervention during childbirth and a declining ‘normal’ birth rate – the latter being recorded as 64.8 percent of all births in the NZHIS Maternity Snapshot 2010. As many interventions, including induction of labour, ARM, analgesia and anaesthesia, are included in that rate, it is unknown how many women and babies actually experienced physiological labours and births. .... further info on the workshop |
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Article |
Facilitating
Breech Birth - Midwifery (and Women's) Business! by
Maggie Banks. For
full article go to Birthspirit's 'Articles' page or click
here.
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Birthspirit
Midwifery Journal |
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Birthspirit
Midwifery Journal focuses on the regeneration and furthering
of knowledge that promotes, supports and protects the healthy (on
all levels) continuum of pregnancy, labour and birth, breastfeeding
and early mothering.
While we are continuing with our activities of providing midwifery education, publishing and selling midwifery books, and supporting Wise Woman Archives Trust, we have decided that we will not continue with Birthspirit Midwifery Journal. Issue 6 (October 2010) was, therefore, the last Issue to be published.
Past Issues of Birthspirit
Midwifery Journal will remain available for purchase. |
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Mind, Body & Spirit Workshop - January 2013 |
We have a fifth Workshop planned which will run
from Sunday 13th January through until Saturday 19th January 2013. Throughout
this time you are provided with onsite accommodation, nutritious meals
and refreshments and a beautiful space to immerse yourself in the tradition
of the wise-woman midwife ... read
more
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Wise
Woman Archives Trust (WWAT) |
Joan
Donley (1916 - 2005)
Joan Donley was born and raised in Canada and immigrated to New Zealand
in 1964 with her husband and five children. Joan, already a nurse from
1938, undertook midwifery training at St Helen’s Hospital in Auckland
in 1972 at the age of 56. In 1974 Joan commenced domiciliary midwifery
practice providing home birth services in Auckland.
Joan played a major leadership role throughout all aspects of midwifery
in New Zealand by motivating midwives to take control of midwifery and
supporting consumers to fight for the home birth option. She initiated
founding of the Home Birth Association in Auckland in 1978, the Domiciliary
Midwives Society (Inc.) and the New Zealand College of Midwives.
In her pivotal paper titled Midwives
or moas? presented at the 1988 National Midwives and Obstetric Nurses
Special Interest Section of New Zealand Nurses’ Association Conference
in Auckland, Joan proposed that midwives form the Aotearoa College of
Midwives “to promote midwifery in order to survive as a profession”.
While it underwent a name change, this prompt would result in the founding
of the New Zealand College of Midwives at that Conference. This paper
along with The
domiciliary midwife: her role and professional status in the community
and The
midwife as an independent practitioner begin the series of Joan’s
papers written in the 1980s, many of them unpublished, which will be reproduced
electronically by the Wise Woman Archives Trust, thanks to the kind permission
of her daughter, Dee Pigneguy.
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Midwifery wisdom |
Joan
Donley's Compendium
"There
is no other book quite like this one and we have waited a long time
for it. It challenges conventional ways of thinking yet has
been thoroughly researched, is based on evidence and makes good sense.
Written with her usual
wit and humour, Joan provides a complete compendium of information to
answer any question about having babies and keeping healthy. It will be
a valuable resource for midwifes and is a must for all women wanting a
healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby ... " (Go to Joan
Donley's Compendium)
There is limited
stock of this book left, and it is not planned to be reprinted |
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News |
Midwifery Council's competency requirements for practising midwives
All of the on-going competency requirements for practising midwives
are set out in Midwifery Council's - Recertification Programme:
Competence-based practising certificates for midwives. This and
other informative documents are on their website at www.midwiferycouncil.org.nz
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Wise
Woman Archives Trust (WWAT) |
Birthspirit
is delighted to support the Wise Woman Archives Trust (WWAT), which
is incorporated under the provisions of the Charitable Trusts Act 1957.
WWAT is a new initiative with the purpose of collecting, preserving
and making available for research and learning purposes historical materials
relating to maternity services in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The Trust’s
first major acquisition is the secretarial archive of the Domiciliary
Midwives Society (Incorporated) – the contents of which can be
viewed on the webpage Domiciliary
Midwives Society of New Zealand (Incorporated). The DMS, as the
Society was known, was established in 1981 to enable practising domiciliary
midwife members to communicate efficiently, speak out effectively as
one body, and manage their own affairs; to oppose and correct misrepresentation
and misunderstanding of the philosophy of home birth and the policies
of domiciliary midwives; and, to protect the reputation and interests
of all domiciliary midwives by seeking to obtain membership from all
midwives providing home birth services. The DMS was very active from
the 1980s with the Home Birth Associations and Home Birth Support Groups
throughout New Zealand in securing the viability of the home birth option
prior to 1990.
Wise Woman Archives
Trust is interested in receiving donations of material from individual
or groups – maternity consumer or professional - in particular,
but not exclusively, of minutes of meetings, correspondence, submissions,
newsletters and birth statistics. Archives are housed in Birthspirit
Cottage and can be accessed by appointment by contacting WWAT (email: wwat@ihug.co.nz).
Website updated 3 April 2012
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