If U would like to add links to this page, please send URL address and Summary information to jlh for consideration! http://melbourne.citysearch.com.au/E/V/MELBO/0027/84/49/ My name is Joy Johnston. I am a midwife. I provide personal professional care for women through pregnancy and birth and the early parenting period. My goal is to work with each woman within her home, family and situation. http://www.melbmidwifery.com.au/ A major event in the continuum of family life is the experience of pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding. The following information has been compiled to assist you with planning for this special occasion. http://www.aitex.com.au/joy.htm GENERAL INFORMATION for midwives, lactation consultants, and women seeking our services in Melbourne and around Victoria http://www.acegraphics.com.au/resource/links/index.html General Sites These sites cover a wide range of topics within Childbirth, Midwifery and Breastfeeding. They offer good resources in all of these fields, but don't specialise in the information they contain. http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/nursing/degree/gd_mw.htm Course overview This course provides specialty education for registered nurses in midwifery. Graduates of the course will be eligible to obtain an Authorisation to Practise Midwifery issued by the Nurses Registration Board of New South Wales The main focus of the course is the theory and practice of midwifery, while supporting and elective units of study develop knowledge in counselling, ethics, research, cultural diversity, community nursing and primary health care. http://www.health.usyd.edu.au/ The University of Sydney NEW: Courses in International Public Health, Doctor of Public Health, Master of Public Health with honours http://edsitewa.iinet.net.au/birthrites/ Birthrites: Healing After Caesarean Inc. (Please feel welcome to hotlink to this site, spreading information is what it is all about) http://www.aitex.com.au/aitexnew/continui.htm CONTINUITY OF CARER Every woman needs midwifery care at the time of giving birth. Midwife means, literally "with woman". Whether the woman is supported by a friend or a professional midwife, the one who is with her through the strong labour and birth is being "mid-wife". Unfortunately, in many births the professional midwife is more involved with the management of medical equipment and paperwork, fulfilling the role of obstetric nurse rather than midwife, and neglecting the woman. http://www.efn.org/~djz/birth/add695/mipp.html Midwives in private practice For centuries midwives have worked among their communities providing care to women. Historically midwives have held a philosophy of care based on the belief that pregnancy is, basically, a healthy process and a normal part of life, growth and development. It is this belief that guides the way in which midwives in private practice work. http://home.pacific.net.au/~rscolley The Birthing Womb and the cyber circle of motherhood. http://www.homestead.com/birthinghands/BIRTHINGHANDS1.html BIRTHINGHANDS - HOMEBIRTH MIDWIVES Antenatal care and support, Education, HOMEBIRTH and hospital support and Postnatal care. http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/clac_ctte/index.htm Senate Community Affairs Committee Welcome to the on-line pages of the Senate Standing Committee of the 39th Parliament of Australia on Community Affairs.