Collaborative Maternity Care Agreement - give your feedback

RANZCOG has developed a template for Collaborative Maternity Care Agreement between Eligible Midwife and Specialist Obstetrician or General Practice Obstetrician for use by Specialist Obstetricians or GP Obstetricians and Eligible Midwives.

It is very important to give your Feedback.

It is acknowledged that the template agreement will not be suitable for all settings and that not all Obstetricians will wish to enter into a collaborative arrangement, but all comments will be considered.RANZCOG

Please send feedback to Rupert Sherwood by email to ganderson@ranzcog.edu.au or by fax to +61 3 9419 0672.

Sending your response is important, this is how your voice and numbers count, please be proactive, read the document in its entirety... and give your feedback.

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Do we ever learn from history?

I found this pearl:

In 1960 they asked 'Why are most mothers in this country delivered while lying flat on their backs? Traditionally it would seem thatwomen were delivered in a sitting position. Recently it has been re-discovered that this position can reduce pain fromsevere back-ache during labour. The sitting position also reduces by 23% the strain on the heart compared with therecument (sic) position. Many women find that lying on their backs during the second stage of labour is uncomfortable(especially so as they are so often required to do this on a high, hard, narrow "bed") - "like a stranded whale". Surely aproperly designed delivery chair would not be beyond the bounds of 20th Century ingenuity?’Sonia Willington, AIMS Newsletter 2

Why are we asking the same question 50yrs later?