Dear Andrew Brunskill and mailbase subscribers,
Re: Water births
Srah Beake, research midwife at the Centre for Midwifery Practice, TVU,
London, UK, has recently undertaken a structured review of the evidence
on waterbirths, which she hopes to submit for publication in order that
other midwives do not need to repeat this work. Try contacting her at:
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On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:30:20 +0000 [log in to unmask] wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:35:42 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Water babies, throwing out babies with bathwater, water baths, water
> births
> From: Andrew Brunskill <[log in to unmask]>
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> Reply-to: Andrew Brunskill <[log in to unmask]>
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> The Washington State Medicaid Program has recently become aware it is
> paying for a number (? a lot?) of water births. I guess that these can
> vary from underwater births to warm water baths while giving birth. There
> are various opinions as to whether this is good, bad or we needn't bother
> our little bureaucratic heads about it. One opinion is that we should not
> reimburse for underwater births, another is that we should at least try to
> find out something before taking any step. The old adage "The state acts
> but does not think, the university thinks but does not act" sometimes
> seems painfully true. Does anyone have a nice document, reference,
> resource on water births generally? I Have looked at last years Cochrane
> and couldn't find anything, a few studies only on Medline (including as
> always a plea for more research!) etc. Some low powered small studies on
> infection rates (crying out for a meta-analysis). I haven't looked at all
> the other evidence based sites.
> sites yet. Present situation is a bit wishy washy. Andrew Brunskill.
>
> Andrew J Brunskill,
> University of Washington [log in to unmask]
> Washington State Medicaid Program [log in to unmask]
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> Dr Jane Sandall
> Reader in Midwifery
> Department of Midwifery
> City University
> Philpot Street
> London
> E1 2EA
> Tel: 0171 505 5871
> Fax: 0171 505 5866
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