April 25, 2003

Lynne Staff, Selangor Private Hospital and Essential Midwifery

For the last two days I have been presenting an Active Birth workshop at Selangor Private Hospital in Nambour, Queensland. This private hospital is an outstanding example of what can be achieved when a dedicated midwife (in this case, Lynne Staff) sets out to create a new maternity unit where women will be central focus of the care, rather than the system and the clinicians.

I have written about it before, and frequently mention it in my workshops. From time to time I have great pleasure in co-presenting workshop programs with Lynne, for example the Essential Midwifery series of events http://www.birthinternational.com/event/essential/index.html scheduled for early June in the UK. Her experience and sensitivity in enabling labouring women to have the best experience possible regardless of the kind of birth that eventuates, is remarkable, and as an educator of note, she has a gift for getting this message across to others. For this event she will be utilising participation, problem solving, story telling and research evidence to facilitate an interactive program on dealing with complexity during labour and birth - the women who have had previous poor obstetric outcomes, caesarean births, medical complications or just variations on the theme such as posterior positioned babies that cause so much angst for a woman during labour.

At Selangor they have a water birth rate of 30%, a VBAC rate around 90%, and regularly manage twins and breech birth vaginally. Lynne has successfully "re-educated" the private obstetricians to be respectful of women's needs and wishes and they are reaping the benefits of this approach, with women travelling many miles to obtain this kind of care. It is one of the best success stories in Australia and as soon as their "virtual reality" tour is up on their website, I will post the URL for you to check out.

Meanwhile, those of you in the UK should consider coming to the Essential Midwifery program - it will be an excellent next step from my Active Birth workshop and an informative and practical study day. Look forward to seeing you there!

Posted by andrea at April 25, 2003 08:42 AM

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Can you provide me your hospital address as we cannot find it on the net. Is it in Selangor, Malaysia. Also give me the contact number and person to contact. Pretty urgent.

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