September 24, 2002

NMAP takes off

Well, NMAP is off the launching pad! Here in Sydney we had a good day - first there was the Press Conference which was reasonably well attended by the major TV channels and some other print media. Nicole Christianson ("Keep Birthing in the Mountains", Fiona Tito (of the famous Tito Report on Professional Indemnity), Lee Rhiannon (NSW Greens) and Arthur Chesterfield-Evans (Democrats) all spoke in support. The hazard of choosing Parliament House was that the press conference would be hijacked by media intent on grabbing a politician for a quote on anything that was breaking news and that did happen in the question time. Chesterfield-Evans was aksed about some corrupt politician's antics that had hit the headlines earlier that morning, so we were left feeling a little silly while he had his say. However, he thought we went well - and we are hopeful that it will make the local news bulletins this evening.

The Launch event followed and lasted an hour. The speakers were Jo Westley (spearheading the campaign to save Camden Hospital Birth Centre), Hannah Dahlen (NSW Midwives Association), Fiona Tito and Mark Tracy (Father, husband of Sally and Neonatologist). All covered aspects of NMAP and provided great background information. Copies of the report were on hand, other material relating to the NSW Government's Greater Metropolitan Transition Taskforce's idiotic plans about rationalising materntiy services in Sydney were given out and various health policy makers and politicians ( a few - most had Caucus meetings to attend) heard more about NMAP.

We heard that Craig Knowles' (NSW Minister for Health) advisor was to issue the considered response at 3.30 p.m. and Denise Hynd was to wait and see what it contained.

We did manage to doorstop Bob Carr (Premier) and to give him a quick message about NMAP and a copy of the report. He wanted to know about how much it would cost, and when told it would save him money, said he "would look into it". We were most impressed by his wonderful tan and impeccable suit and decided that he either must have been wearing make-up or else spent a lot of time in a solarium!

An interesting day. It will be great to hear how the launches went in other capitals and how the meetings in Canberra with Meg Lees (Independent) and Helen Coonan (Deputy Treasurer) went.

This is the start - we still have a long way to go. As Fiona Tito said to me over lunch - "why does this stuff have to be so hard? We keep giving them the data and the cost savings and telling them what we want and they just find ways to ignore it". If she is having difficulty, then we have our work cut out. We won't let them stop us - our time as mothers and midwives has come.

Posted by andrea at September 24, 2002 04:47 PM

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Andrea I totally support everything you have said re third stage. I am wondering where to find the evidence on the effect of oxytocics on breastfeeding? Theoretically it makes sense (to me anyway)that there would be a negative effect, but when looking at the Cochrane data base, on the reasearch that has been done they (the Cochrane researchers) couldn't/wouldn't make a statement one way or the other, has something changed?

Posted by: Marilyn Kleidon on September 25, 2002 11:01 AM

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Marilyn,

There has been much research done on the effects of oxytocics but it has been done as experiments to investigate biological phenomena. The Cochrane Library, good as it is, only looks at the Randomised Controlled Trials, which will mean that much research is excluded from its database. The best source of information about all aspects of breastfeeding and lactation is the Lactations Resource Centre in Melbourne, which is an offshoot of the Australian Breastfeeding Association. You can find it at: http://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/lrc/

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