Posts by Emma Hart
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"property torture porn" - wonder what the Yanks will do with that one..
Soon it won't even get through in Australia.
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(Also: the price of 'feminine hygiene products' [pads and tampons, for those of us less euphemistically inclined] is a feminist/working-class activist issue as far as I'm concerned. $11 for cotton wool and stickytape? Are they kidding me?)
To tagent in a slightly 'look away' direction, you might like to consider the Diva Cup. Reusable, cheaper, greener, and not full of bleach.
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I haven't had time to look around ChCh since I've got here, so what are the good cafes in town?
For coffee, C4 in High Street. I don't think I've ever actually consumed food there though.
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Domino midwives should get collectively on the NZ order of merit, I reckon.
I still carry Kate's card in my wallet, just in case I run into anyone in desperate need of a midwife.
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Islander, my daughter is named after my midwife, who was one of the Domino group. She and the other midwives I dealt with were brilliant. Given I was out at Lincoln after the birth of my second, the fuel allowance was a real problem. I think you've misidentified the side of the argument I'm on.
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'Shoving mothers out the door early' is NOT a midwife decision
Oh, believe me, I've heard midwives bitch about it. And their vanishing petrol allowance.
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Chch Women's has gotten snazzy new premises since I birthed there
And yet added not one more bed than they had in the old facility, so they're still shoving mothers out the door early. Crazy.
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The whole coffee clique is immature NZ cosmopolitanism gone wrong
Not wishing to disappoint Jim, there was a kilo of Eden beans in my letterbox when I got up this morning. Nyah nyah nyah.
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Thanks Janet, that's very useful.
Probably what hasn't been touched on here is the lengths to which children will go to conceal a visual impairment too. I can blame 'the system' for missing me until I was eight, but I did my best to game them.
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From my point of view I found it quite terrifying to be left alone with this little baby overnight (although of course there was heaps of medical support).
Oh yeah. Though Chch Women's allowed quite a bit of leeway, my partner stayed until about ten, I think. I was in a room with seven other women, so I do appreciate the reasons for making people go home.
But, Women's was horrible. It's always nice to hear a nurse, just before dinner comes in, use the phrase 'you can't feed them that'. Second time around we planned for Lincoln Maternity, which I'd recommend to anyone in Chch looking at a normal birth. I had a room to myself, the food was wonderful, the staff were great, and the atmosphere was actually relaxing. I didn't want to go home.