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No immediate ideas - but all your thoughts sound good. There are moves to develop a strategic approach to re-discovering normality in midwifery practice - all very low key at present, but I hope it will lead to some big event in 2002 (the centenary of the midwives act) - Ill keep you informed! Soo >>> "familyhall" <[log in to unmask]> 11/23/00 04:04PM >>> Dear Soo Some thoughts...... 1. Good education, lots of experience of normal birth, apprenticing of students 2. Re-education of qualified staff in psychology and clinical experience away from the medical model ie if they haven't seen a home birth for years then they need to be out there being taught by those who have seen loads 3. Getting women to tell midwives postnatally how they felt about the care they were given and about the things that were said to them that made them feel postive or negative about themselves! 4. Recognising those midwives who have high "normal" birth rates and getting them to pass on their experiences to others- including docs 5. Improving pay, conditions, staffing levels, flexibility of working patterns etc etc OK- perhaps we should scrap the maternity services as they are and start again....anyone for commuinty based NHS funded midwifery practises? Have we heard this before somewhere? Any ideas from you? best wishes Jenny ----- Original Message ----- From: Soo Downe <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 20 November 2000 18:29 Subject: Re: Midwives' role in prevention of Caesarean section > thanks for your message - what do we do about it?! > > Best wishes > > Soo > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%