a midwife to avoid.!
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Topic: a midwife to avoid.!
Posted By: Bizzy
Subject: a midwife to avoid.!
Date Posted: 30 September 2007 at 7:33pm
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Saw this article from earlier this month but felt compelled to post it to warn any mums to be who were thinking of using sharon robertson as their mw.
Here is the http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10464321 - article |
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 30 September 2007 at 7:41pm
That would have made me sooooo angry!  I wonder how the mother (family) is doing now?  -------------  |
Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 30 September 2007 at 8:21pm
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That is terrible, she should never be allowed to be anybodies LMC again ------------- 
 
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 30 September 2007 at 8:21pm
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------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 30 September 2007 at 9:01pm
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Far out that is so wrong in so many ways. She does not deserve to be a MW anymore. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 30 September 2007 at 9:26pm
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theres a Sharon Robinson around here but pretty sure its not the same one as the one in the article. ------------- Ann 
Also Mum to Josh (15) and Brooke (10) |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 30 September 2007 at 9:36pm
| the story says her middle name is louise... but it doesnt say where she is practising now. |
Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 30 September 2007 at 10:08pm
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omg thats so horrible!! If she had have been more thourgh(sp?) then they could have delivered that baby earlier and it probably would have survived!! grrrr thats so sad and makes me so angry!! ------------- |
Posted By: Freesia
Date Posted: 01 October 2007 at 7:13am
I just did a search for her through the Midwifery Council website and it says that she still has a Current Practising Certificate with no conditions attached  That article was dated 18 Sept too! That should've been plenty of time for them to update it.-------------  
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Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 01 October 2007 at 9:19am
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Its awful - I guess if you are being monitored then you have to tell people when they engage your services and surely that would ring alarm bells!? ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: buzimumto3boys
Date Posted: 01 October 2007 at 12:42pm
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She totally should have had that woman on a CTG machine or something... Grrrr. I was on CTG's all the time with my last pregnancy because they wanted to check he was ok (I had GD)
That woman certainly shouldnt be allowed to get off scot free! You would be surprised how often these things are done under surpression orders as well! Totally wrong if you ask me!!
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Posted By: NikkiB
Date Posted: 01 October 2007 at 1:28pm
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That is so sad ------------- A very lucky mummy to two gorgeous boys: RB 3/10/2008 JB 29/12/2009 |
Posted By: Freesia
Date Posted: 01 October 2007 at 2:44pm
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It also makes me wonder about Huntly Birthcare. I'm not sure how the Birthcare units work, but wouldn't there have been other midwives there or available? And why did no one else step in? How horrible for the family knowing that the whole thing was probably avoidable. -------------
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Posted By: DJ
Date Posted: 02 October 2007 at 1:07pm
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Thanks for posting that. At least they published her name so people can avoid her. There is a midwife in Wgtn that was found to have caused the death of a baby at a home birth because she didn't get help fast enough - but she got name suppression and no-one knows who she is! Apparently she is only allowed to work in a hospital now - but we don't even know which hospital!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: porcelina
Date Posted: 04 October 2007 at 4:27pm
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I think it's fair enough she has supervision for 2 years. It usually takes a lot for your registration to be cancelled and everyone is human and makes mistakes. The Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal is usually pretty good at deciding just punishment (no matter how angry the general public may be).
I've seen a baby have seizures, be purply-blue from the torso down and have to have life support switched off after a home birth went wrong (midwife apparently freaked out and didn't commence CPR, the baby didn't get any until the ambulance arrived and therefore had extensive brain and circulation damage). And yet I haven't heard anything about that midwife being punished And people wonder why I don't like the idea of homebirths!
There are always going to be the odd people that discredit midwifery  -------------   
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Posted By: minik8e
Date Posted: 04 October 2007 at 4:35pm
| Amber - Huntly Birthcare is a small unit, and the majority of midwives that practice there seem to have to come from Hamilton? That in itself can be between 20 - 40 mins drive, if not longer, depending on which part of Hams they're coming from. They also usually only do straightforward births, or transfer straight away to Waikato, from what I know. |