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Setting off again

Packing up today ahead of my next trip to the UK. On the way I will have two days in Bangkok where the Thai version of my booklet “Preparing for Birth: Mothers” is being launched, along with the new Birth Room at the Samitivej Hospital.

Then it will be London to begin one of my treks around the countryside: Leeds, Hexham (near Newcastle on Tyne) and Dumfries (Scotland, south of Glaasgow) in the first week. Then it will be over to Ireland, for a program in Drogheda (my fourth visit) and a workshop for the Irish Childbirth Trust in Dublin. After that comes Norfolk, a workshop in London and then the final round: Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol (Phew!). I will be back in Sydney on April 1st.

I will be facilitating a mix of Active Birth and Teaching Skills workshops, which are always in demand. There will also be a few days in our UK office to plan future events with our UK Manager, Fran Gallwey.

As I travel about, I’ll keep you updated with observations on the midwifery and birth scene in the UK. The MIDIRS Digest and The Practising Midwife journal are helpful in staying abreast of maternity issues but there is nothing like hearing what is going on from those directly involved, and these workshops are a great opportunity for sharing stories and reporting on developments.

But first, to the book launch tomorrow, in the very different birthing climate of South East Asia

Posted by andrea at February 26, 2004 10:08 AM

Comments

Hello from Limerick, Ireland. I attended one of your presentation skills workshops in ChCh New Zealand a few years ago as a CBE...I am on a "working holiday"with my family and have started midwifery training in Limerick!!!!!I had hoped to attend your workshop in droheda, but was not able to...anyway, if you intend to brace the Irish childbirth scene for another year, i would be keen to get you to Limerick. Might notbe possible, but perhaps you might indicate if you might consider it, and how i could facilitate this.I am finding it soul destroying working with my new zealand background here in ireland, but hope to go to england to a midwifery led centre (if one really exists)..to reskill,(unlearn) before heading back to nz.Good on you for keeping on plugging the natural birthing....I am struggling to make some difference here, but will keep trying. Hope to hear from you. Regards Teresa Walsh

Posted by: teresa walsh on March 14, 2004 01:08 AM

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