i never wrote a message about the seminar????

>From: "Macfarlane, Alison" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Keeping birth normal: the midwifery skill of being with women in pain-open seminar London 30/6/05 and 1/7/05
>Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:04:31 +0100
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>For those of you who can get to London, can I clarify that Nicky Leap is
>giving her seminar twice, once on June 30 at Kings as shown below and again
>at City University on Monday 4th July 2005 at 12:30 - 2pm in Room 3F, St
>Bartholomew School of Nursing and Midwifery, 20 Bartholomew Close, West
>Smithfield, London EC1A 7QN.
>http://www.city.ac.uk/maps/pdfstage1/westsmit.pdf
><http://www.city.ac.uk/maps/pdfstage1/westsmit.pdf>
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>Some people replied to Jane's message about the King's seminar and some to
>Shamoly Ahmed's message about the City seminar.
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>Alison Macfarlane
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>Open invitation to public seminar
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>Keeping birth normal: the midwifery skill of being with women in pain
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>Thursday 30th June 4pm-5.30pm
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>Room 1.60 Franklin Wilkins Building
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>Stamford Street
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>SE1 9NN
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>Nicky Leap
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>Director of Midwifery Practice, South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area
>Health Service
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>Associate Professor of Midwifery, University of Technology, Sydney and
>visiting Senior Research Fellow, Nightingale School of Nursing and
>Midwifery, King's College, London.
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>Throughout the centuries, women have asked midwives to be alongside them in
>labour to keep birth safe and to offer comfort and support as they face pain
>and uncertainty. In recent years, the western approach has been to offer
>what I shall call a 'menu' of options for 'pain relief' in the interest of
>promoting 'informed choice'. This paper explores how the offering of 'the
>pain-relief menu' can be counterproductive to the midwifery skill of
>'keeping birth normal' and how such an approach can inadvertently undermine
>women's confidence in their ability to give birth without intervention.
>Respecting physiology and the important role of pain in labour enables
>midwives to be alongside women, encouraging them to find their inner
>strength without resorting to pharmacological pain relief. This skill is
>fundamental to midwifery and is in direct opposition to the nursing and
>medical skills of 'pain relief'.
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>This paper draws on work carried out as part of the author's Masters and
>Professional Doctoral studies in articulating a midwifery perspective on the
>rationale for being with women in pain in labour and not attempting to take
>away their pain. In interviews and workshops, midwives from Australia, the
>UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, New Zealand and Canada have articulated a
>midwifery perspective that is counter to the dominant approach in Western
>hospital practice. They have described working with women to promote
>understanding that, in normal labour, pain is something that a woman can
>cope with, aided by her body's endogenous opiates. Midwives have identified
>that pain has many purposes; that women report a great sense of achievement
>and satisfaction in coping with labour pain; and that this may have profound
>consequences for their lives.
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>This presentation explores some of the practical, emotional, cultural,
>ethical and philosophical issues related to the midwifery skill of engaging
>with women around pain in labour.
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>Dr Jane Sandall
>Professor of Midwifery and Women's Health
>Women & Family Health Research Group,
>Health and Social Care Research Division
>King's College, Waterloo Bridge Wing,
>150 Stamford Street,
>London, SE1 9NH
>Tel: 020 7848 3605
>Fax: 020 7848 3764
>e-mail:[log in to unmask]
>http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nursing/research/women.html
><http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nursing/research/women.html>
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