Not exact matches
The IMF staff report on Canada raises an issue that I wrote
about during the election campaign: the unacceptably large gap — 10 percentage points — between the
labour - force participation rates of men and
women.
If you were planning to have a natural birth but change your mind during
labour, you shouldn't feel disappointed or guilty; although most
women are told
about the pain caused by
labour, nothing can prepare you for the actual feeling and if you can't handle the pain without a little help this is completely normal.
At John and Lizzie's the care is based on Active Birth principles: the idea that
women have faster, safer, easier deliveries (and their babies a better birth experience) when they move
about in
labour and give birth standing or squatting, rather than lying on their backs.
In Scotland, where wide variations in surgical deliveries have been found between units, four evidence based recommendations have been prioritised: clinicians and
women should regard trial of
labour as the norm after a previous caesarean; offering external cephalic version to
women at term if their baby is breech; monitoring and regularly reviewing caesarean data with support for staff; and one to one midwifery care for all
women in
labour.20 The National Childbirth Trust — a UK parents organisation — is concerned
about medicalisation and erosion of midwifery skills and confidence.
Future research should assess the effects of provider training on informed choice for
women, and whether
women who are informed
about the benefits of mobility and encouraged to be mobile remain in bed or choose to move around when in the
labour ward.»
Comments
about the hostile response to any request for home birth confirm the anecdotal reports of consumer groups such as the Association for the Improvement in Maternity Services and the National Childbirth Trust and evidence to the Expert Maternity Group.1 In addition, many
women who had booked a home birth were later transferred to hospital for delivery, both before and after the onset of
labour.
Two thirds of the
women thought they had not been offered any option
about place of birth, 74 (29 %) were referred to hospital for delivery before the onset of
labour, and 35 (14 %) were referred to hospital during
labour.
The
labour and birth unfold slowly and it's such an honour to support not just the
woman in the birth of her first baby but also in actually becoming a mother for the first time... I like to see first time couples from very early on in pregnancy and I work closely with them all through their pregnancy helping to dismiss all the nonsense that most people think
labour and birth is
about and support them in preparing for what will actually happen.
A small percentage of
women (5 - 10 %) would reach this stage, but many maternity units policy says they will induce
labour before 42 weeks, so in the UK, only
about 3 % of babies are born after 42 weeks of pregnancy.
Most
women will see their practitioner every fortnight from this point, and discussions
about labour plans get underway.
Women who have been traumatised are finding their voice, as in this recent article, in which several women, including Toni Harman from One World Birth, speak about the terrible treatment they suffered during labour and birth, including being shouted at, having their wishes ignored or belittled, and feeling as if they were being r
Women who have been traumatised are finding their voice, as in this recent article, in which several
women, including Toni Harman from One World Birth, speak about the terrible treatment they suffered during labour and birth, including being shouted at, having their wishes ignored or belittled, and feeling as if they were being r
women, including Toni Harman from One World Birth, speak
about the terrible treatment they suffered during
labour and birth, including being shouted at, having their wishes ignored or belittled, and feeling as if they were being raped.
Women who are knowledgable
about the process and stages of
labour and birth know what to expect and are empowered when their bodies are doing what they have read
about.
When a
woman comes to the hospital in
labour is not the time to learn
about the process of
labour and birth.
And if the reason is to stimulate bowl movement... some
women are already worried
about passing a bowl movement during
labour... Raspberry leaf tea is not intended to induce
labour, it's for the conditioning of the uterus before and after birth, it simply helps it retract and gain it's health.
Whilst much is known
about the clinical management of
labour and childbirth less attention is paid to what, beyond clinical interventions, needs to be done to make
women feel safe, comfortable and positive
about the experience.
They also talked
about visiting
women at home in early
labour to assess them and to provide reassurance.
[If you don't] You will have a higher section rate, so part of that is you need to be in attendance to keep the birth normal and some of it is just to have an opinion
about the strip, some if it is literally where you feel like you're standing guard, not against bad people but against keeping the space for the
woman private and without a lot of stuff going on around her that's going to distract her just being in her
labour.
Five midwives talked
about the value of visiting
women at home in early
labour to assess, reassure and support them.
I feel that
women and their partners do much better with privacy and intimacy during the birth process and that, my role is to sometimes protect that privacy and intimacy first of all by educating them that that might be really important and to talk
about you know the effect both positive and negative
about um, support during that time can be or even just letting people know hey, we're in
labour, the Facebook kind of thing but you know keep it quiet, keep it down, don't fritter the energy away by drawing other people to it or drawing the expectation that something's happening rather than just letting something evolve... I think guarding the space by keeping the space as calm and quiet and private as possible is key and giving people tools to do that during the prenatal time to deal with over eager family members or friends.
Midwives in this study talked
about the importance of preparing
women for what to expect in early
labour.
I have told everyone that I speak to
about my baby's birth that it is a
labouring woman's dream.
If learning that certain drugs used in
labour (and they are not talking only
about pain relief drugs in this study) means that these drugs will be used less, then tens of thousands of
women could potentially be SPARED the difficulty of low milk supply.
I don't know why I respond to the irrational, but I delivery
about 200 babies a year, with a primary Cesarean section rate of 12 % (including
women who choose an elective cesarean delivery, which is their right as AUTONOMOUS HUMAN BEINGS), and deliver
about 1 baby per week,
about 40 - 50 per year, to
women who have NO interventions in
labour.
Corbyn spoke in a way that was absolutely unprecedented
about the rights of
women, which he placed at the heart of both this speech and future
Labour policy.
«
Labour's doctrine of equivalence has led to jury scepticism
about many rape claims, in situations where it is the man's word against the
woman's and where they had agreed to spend the evening or night together.
While that is certainly possible (I have a small bet on her)
Labour has yet to ever pick a
woman over a man in a leadership contest and there is little evidence that is
about to change.
It's an accessible read
about one of the first
women to break through to the top ranks of the
Labour Party.
We on the left do not mind if a man and
women decided they want to live together, freedom is what we believe in, you do have of course in the
labour party people like Blair and brown brought up in a religious home these people have problems, for the rest of us just get on and live you life, because boy it's to short to worry
about
Not going to lie, it was tough for us
Labour feminists to see two blokes wanging on
about women's issues from scripts which leave most us cold.
Ayesha will be performing her one
woman show
about her time in the
Labour Party «tales from the pink bus» on the 6 & 19th July in London and at the Edinburgh festival on 15,16 & 17th August.
Therefore New
Labour needs to talk less
about clever theoretical things such as policy (because
women have very small brains) and appeal rather more to their hearts (because
women, though dumb as toast, do have very large hearts).
No doubt the blokey, even bullying atmosphere under New
Labour played a part in freezing out talented
women in particular; but if this process is not
about closing the chapter on Brown and Blair, it is nothing.
When asked
about whether the Conservatives should match
Labour's «big strides» on increasing
women's representation through all -
women shortlists, Morgan - in her first comments on the issue since taking on her new job - did not rule the option out.
Mr Duncan Smith was also asked
about this specific group of
women several times, by Members on all sides, including Conservatives Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest) and James Gray (North Wiltshire), as well as
Labour's socially conservative welfare reformer, Frank Field.
Bit in the Mirror to day
about Ed and David and the upset and then you have Harmon coming out with having a
women as second in command for ever, two sexes in
labour man
women one must lead one must be second, of course if a
women leads the party do they still take second in command.
Driving
Labour's comeback appears to be
women voters, who have grown increasingly positive
about Mr...
The comments, which were clumsy at best and callous at worst, are being linked to previous occasions when the
Labour challenger has made controversial statements
about women.
But the
Labour leader quickly retreated as he was grilled by a
woman who was very cross
about the Liam Byrne note.
Instead, his clumsy comments
about May have ensured that all discussion
about his launch will be dominated by debate
about Labour's
women problem and whether Smith is an embodiment of that problem.
But he will have to work to persuade those concerned
about the representation of
women at the top of the
Labour party that the old hierarchies of government will not persist.
The fact that the public, and political commentators, have highlighted the lack of
women at the very top of Corbyn's
Labour party has demonstrated a shift in the electorate's expectations
about the gender balance of the top posts in political parties.
«We have a clear need to re-engage with
women voters, and I have become aware in the last few weeks that even though
women are very aware that their families have benefited from
Labour's
women - friendly policies, they are very unhappy
about this particular story.
Deputy
Labour leader Harriet Harman says she is concerned
about the cull of senior authoritative
women.
About 16 % of the party's MPs are
women, compared with 33 % of
Labour's MPs.
The revelations — in a book by respected political historians Anthony Seldon and Guy Lodge raise major questions
about the loyalty of the
woman who is now deputy to
Labour leader Ed Miliband.
Rudd was making a statement
about the centenary of
women's suffrage and, in response to a comment from
Labour's Paula Sheriff, who said Rudd should not be making this a party political issue, Rudd said:
Labour MP Stella Creasy earlier withdrew her Queen's Speech amendment after it brought
about a change in abortions for Northern Irish
women.
Women's Institute members excepted, at the start of the
Labour years nearly every charity, businessman or other social leader was fearful of saying anything negative
about Labour.
Among the
women who won seats was Naz Shah, a mental health campaigner who took Bradford West for
Labour from Respect's George Galloway after a bitter campaign battle, which included claims and counter-claims
about her teenage marriage in Pakistan.
Asked by one of the
women, whose voice is disguised,
about former
Labour prime minister Tony Blair's decision to go to war in Iraq, Lord Sewel says the ex-party leader did so «because he fell in love with George Bush».