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Shortly after birth, the midwife checks if everything is working as it should. I took this photograph of my new born son, but especially the look on the face of the midwife is priceless!for the 24/7 availability of these people is something tot be very thankfull and as you can see She loves her job!.
Kort na de geboorte krijgt het kindje de nodige controles, ik heb hier een foto van mijn pasgeboren zoon gemaakt, maar het gaat voornamelijk om de aandacht voor de verloskundige. Voor de 24uurs beschikbaarheid en inzet van deze mensen kan je niet meer dan dankbaar zijn! En ze heeft zo te zien veel plezier in haar werk 😊.
Midwifery student Nicky "opted in to work during the pandemic", which left her "worried for vulnerable people but glad the hospital is taking measures to protect patients and staff." She says "it's been hard with staff shortages and isolations, but there have been a lot of people coming forward to help." She hopes "NHS staff continue to get the recognition they deserve."
Nicky is one of 67 NHS staff I photographed across George Eliot Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic first wave.
"Humans of the Pandemic" features portraits and thoughts from many roles incl. doctors, domestics, maternity, mortuary, nurses, pathology, pharmacy, physio, and surgery – to name a few.
See the full project gallery at www.matthewthompson.co.uk/humans-of-the-pandemic
Which is your favourite photo? Please share to give these amazing people some recognition for their incredible work.
I have not posted much since the last flickr fiasco. I still check my photostream every day but the lack of activity has been very discouraging. I now get my photographic conversation fix on Facebook. Maybe I will try posting something evderyday to see if things ever improve here.
We bought this cabinet card at a local antique show last week. I must say there are several things about it that puzzle me. It is giving me vibes of an amateur or unskilled itinerant photographer. An older woman sits in what I think is a farm yard. She holds a white flower on a long stem in her left hand and a book in her right hand. A table and chair have moved outside. A large book rests on the table and a stuffed rag-dog sits on the ground. What does it all mean?
I posted a detail of the cover and a facebook poster discovered that it is "Know Thyself: The Science of Life; or Self-Preservation". It is described as a Medical Treatise on Nervous and Physical Debility, Spermatorrhea, Impotence, and Sterility with Practical Observations on the Treatment of Diseases of the Generative Organs" - 1881. I found this a mystery until I learned that this book was used by 19th century midwifes.
Does anyone else find this as strange as I do?
The former Lady Bowen Hospital, on Wickham Terrace, is a complex of three buildings, the earliest of which was constructed as the second purpose built home of the Brisbane Lying-In Hospital in 1889 - 1890. In 1938 the Lady Bowen Hospital was superseded by the Brisbane Women's Hospital and the site on Wickham Terrace was leased for a variety of purposes.
During the nineteenth century childbirth frequently resulted in the death of the mother and/or baby. Usually, babies were delivered in the family home with the assistance of midwives, of varying degrees of experience and training. During the time of the penal settlement, care for those women who could not afford the expense of a midwife, was available from the female prison, firstly located in Queen Street and later at Eagle Farm. Following the closure of this, destitute women were unable to find medical attention during childbirth until the formation of the Queensland Lying-In Hospital in 1864.
A committee was formed for the establishment of a lying-in hospital following a report in the Brisbane Courier of the 16th of August 1864 requesting those interested in the establishment of such an institution to attend a meeting at the Armoury on the 19th of August at 4.00pm. The committee formed as a result of this meeting lobbied the colonial government of the time for partial funding, under the provisions Hospitals Act 1862 which allowed funding to be used to assist the establishment of hospitals. Previously Queensland hospitals were established solely by public donation. The colonial government, under Governor Bowen allocated £500 toward the establishment of the first public lying-in hospital.
From the outset, the Ladies' Committee of the Lying-In Hospital sought to achieve three aims: firstly to improve midwifery standards in the state, secondly to change community attitudes toward accepting childbirth in hospitals and thirdly to promote moral reform in unwed mothers. To achieve the first aim, the training of midwives was conducted from the earliest days of the hospital in the 1860s.
On the 1st of September 1864, a joint committee of ladies and gentlemen or the proposed Lying-In Hospital was held to consider the objectives of the new hospital. At this meeting, a Ladies' Committee was appointed in which the management of the institution was vested and comprising the wives of many early prominent Brisbane citizens. The Ladies Committee was supported by a men's committee who provided advice and reference as required. The hospital, officially called, the Queensland Lying-In Hospital, was opened on the 2nd of November 1864 in a house, Fairview, in Leichhardt Street, Spring Hill. This was described in an advertisement in the Brisbane Courier as having six large rooms, detached kitchen, and servant's room, with tank and yard. The Ladies' Committee rented Fairview for £120 per annum.
The hospital remained in this rented accommodation in Leichhardt Street until 1866 when the Lying-In Hospital was moved to a new purpose designed building in Ann Street, between Edward and Albert Street and adjacent to the Servants' Home (now known as the School of Arts). This was an eight roomed building with beds for twelve patients and ancillary rooms. In late 1867, this building was renamed the Lady Bowen Lying-In Hospital in recognition of the wife of Governor George Bowen, Lady Diamantina Roma Bowen. During her life in Queensland, Lady Bowen was an avid participant and organiser of charitable and social activities.
The Lady Bowen Lying-In Hospital remained in Ann Street for about twenty-five years until 1889 when a larger hospital was built, on the outskirts of the central business area of Brisbane and overlooking Albert Park. A bill was passed in parliament to allow for the sale of the hospital in Ann Street to allow the Ladies' Committee to procure land elsewhere for reasons that:
The situation is not by any means healthy, as the aspect is wrong for both breeze and sun; the situation is noisy; the present institution cannot be thoroughly cleaned without closing; and it is quite impossible to separate married women from single women, which separation is of course most desirable.
The Ann Street property was sold for £6000 and patients were transferred to a property in Wharf Street, awaiting the opening of the Wickham Terrace Hospital. In October 1888 the Ladies Committee acquired the Wickham Terrace property, where formerly the house of Reginald H Roe, Head Master of Brisbane Grammar School, was stied. Roe moved from his Wickham Terrace residence, known as Winholm, to a boarding house on the Brisbane Grammar site. Winholm is thought to have been demolished to make way for the lying-in hospital, certainly neither documentary nor physical evidence suggests that the house has been retained within the hospital complex.
Following the acquisition of the land, the Ladies' Committee commissioned Brisbane architect, John Hingestone Buckeridge to design the new two storeyed hospital. Buckeridge arrived in Brisbane in February 1887 to take up his appointment as the Diocesan architect for the Bishop of Brisbane, Dr Webber. Previously, Buckeridge worked in London as an architect following his training with prominent British ecclesiastical architect, John Loughborough Pearson and studied at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Architectural Association. His appointment to the Diocese of Brisbane was to assist Webber on an ambitious church building program. Following the death of his wife, Buckeridge accepted the position in Queensland where one of his principal jobs was the supervision of the Church of England Cathedral, Saint John's, designed by his former principal, JL Pearson. Buckeridge worked in the position of Diocesan Architect officially until 1902 although for many of the later years he lived in Sydney. He designed about 60 timber churches throughout south east Queensland, including Christ Church, Milton (1891); along with a number of public and commercial buildings including the Gresham Hotel.
The design Buckeridge provided for the Lady Bowen Hospital was for a two storeyed brick building with a substantial basement level and with capacity for fifty patients. The building was constructed by local contractor John Quinn who won the tender for construction of the building for £6200. The ground floor of the building housed an entrance hall, a sewing room for nurses and wards with bathrooms and linen rooms, Above on the first floor were a number of wards, and below in the basement were the nurses' dining room and kitchens. A separate building to the rear of the hospital was used for septic cases.
The foundation stone of the new hospital was laid by Lady Alice Norman on the 29th of May 1889 and the first patients were admitted to the hospital on the 1st of January 1890. No major additions or alterations were made to the complex until 1923 when the government approved the expenditure of £15 000 for the construction of a Nurses' Quarters to the west of the original building.
The introduction of the Hospitals Act 1923 established an alternate structure with regional hospital boards for the management of Queensland hospitals. The management of the Lady Bowen Lying-In Hospital was vested in the Brisbane and South Coast Hospital Board from 1924. This brought about standardised practice throughout Queensland hospitals and official government contributions to the funding of hospitals. The State government took over full responsibility for the running of hospitals in 1945. The Ladies' Committee officially disbanded in 1924, although they retained an advisory role on the new board of management.
By the 1920s, the Lady Bowen Hospital was seen to require upgrading and repairs. With growing concern over the high incidence of infant mortality, legislation was passed in the form of the Maternity Act 1922 to provide support and care for children and mothers. The Hospitals Board commissioned a report from the Professor of Obstetrics at the University of Sydney who recommended the construction of a new obstetrics hospital in the grounds of the Brisbane Hospital at Herston. The Hospitals Board were given government approval and funding in line with government platform, increasing support for women's and children's healthcare. The construction of a new obstetrics hospital, known as the Brisbane Women's Hospital was approved in 1929 and was opened in 1938. During this period Lady Bowen continued to operate and an operating theatre was constructed and sewerage system installed.
The Lady Bowen Hospital was closed and staff and patients were transferred to the new women's hospital which opened on the 26th of March 1938. This heralded an era of short term leasees and alterations to the buildings of the former Lady Bowen Hospital which continues to the present day. The many tenants who have occupied the buildings since 1938 include the Bridge Board, the Social Service League, Essential and Emergency Services of the Civil Defence Organisation, the Australian Army Canteen Services, the Stanley River Works Board, the Returned Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia, the Queensland State Archives, Agricultural Project (later the Agricultural and Environmental Education Branch and later, the Brisbane Urban Environmental Education Centre), the Australian Music Examination Board, Apprenticeship Board of Queensland, Department of Health (Chest Clinic for the Division of Health and Medical Physics), and the Queensland Writers Centre.
Of the tenants who have occupied the buildings since the relocation of the hospital, the various Army related tenants during World War II were most significant. The obvious impact of this tenancy was the construction of the two storeyed timber framed and fibrous-sheeting clad building on the corner of Wickham Terrace and Robert Street. In the early stages of the War the site was occupied by the Air Raid Warden's Organisation which became later the Civil Defence Organisation. In 1943 the site was acquired for use as a serviceman's club, known as Anzac House. During this occupation, the Royal Australian Engineers Unit were responsible for the conversion of the hospital into a hostel with dining and other recreational facilities. Across Wickham Terrace, in Albert Park, a related dance pavilion was constructed. This has since been demolished.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
midwife stripped my membranes yesterday and said I was dialated to almost a 3!!!! I was all excited to have a baby last night but alas, no contractions. Just as well, we had a load of people over for breakfast this morning and then had soccer practice.
click here to see avas 39 week photo
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Wakering Photography Group were lucky to have two professional performers sit for us last night, courtesy of our member Dave Denby.
Matt Sproit is known for his work on Stan Lee’s Lucky Man (2016), EastEnders (1985) and Guerrilla (2017), he also appears in the BBC Drama series Luther and Call The Midwife.
Shortly after birth, the midwife checks if everything is working as it should. I took this photograph of my new born son, but especially the look on the face of the midwife is priceless!for the 24/7 availability of these people is something tot be very thShortly after birth, the midwife checks if everything is working as it should. I took this photograph of my new born son, but especially the look on the face of the midwife is priceless!for the 24/7 availability of these people is something tot be very thankfull and as you can see She loves her job!.
Kort na de geboorte krijgt het kindje de nodige controles, ik heb hier een foto van mijn pasgeboren zoon gemaakt, maar het gaat voornamelijk om de aandacht voor de verloskundige. Voor de 24uurs beschikbaarheid en inzet van deze mensen kan je niet meer dan dankbaar zijn! En ze heeft zo te zien veel plezier in haar werk 😊.
Guna District, Madhya Pradesh , INDIA. 19 January 2011: Auxillary Nursing Midwife (ANM) Niranjana Parihar (25 years old) helps Lalita Bhilala (26) and her newborn baby to breastfeed at the Fategarh Village Sub Centre. Lalita, a tribal villager, gave birth at the center in a safe institutional environment first set up with equipment and expertise provided by UNICEF. An urgent need to provide safe baby delivery services for women in remote areas led to the establishment of Sub Centers for women staffed by ANM's first piloted at Fategarh village in Guna district, Madhya Pradesh. Until 2006 there was only a 10 percent institutional delivery rate resulting in high levels of infant mortality. Since its establishment the sub center has birthed nearly 3000 babies , mostly benefitting surrounding tribal communities in the area, and led to the operation of 8 more such centers in the area. .
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USA has a maternal health crisis that sees between two and three women die every day during pregnancy and childbirth. A total of 1.7 million women a year, one-third of all pregnant women in the country, suffer from pregnancy-related complications. Of those a disproportionate amount are among women of minority backgrounds. Some research has said that educating care providers that COME from the minority communities. This picture shows an amazing/gifted/talented midwife catching a baby.
The former Lady Bowen Hospital, on Wickham Terrace, is a complex of three buildings, the earliest of which was constructed as the second purpose built home of the Brisbane Lying-In Hospital in 1889 - 1890. In 1938 the Lady Bowen Hospital was superseded by the Brisbane Women's Hospital and the site on Wickham Terrace was leased for a variety of purposes.
During the nineteenth century childbirth frequently resulted in the death of the mother and/or baby. Usually, babies were delivered in the family home with the assistance of midwives, of varying degrees of experience and training. During the time of the penal settlement, care for those women who could not afford the expense of a midwife, was available from the female prison, firstly located in Queen Street and later at Eagle Farm. Following the closure of this, destitute women were unable to find medical attention during childbirth until the formation of the Queensland Lying-In Hospital in 1864.
A committee was formed for the establishment of a lying-in hospital following a report in the Brisbane Courier of the 16th of August 1864 requesting those interested in the establishment of such an institution to attend a meeting at the Armoury on the 19th of August at 4.00pm. The committee formed as a result of this meeting lobbied the colonial government of the time for partial funding, under the provisions Hospitals Act 1862 which allowed funding to be used to assist the establishment of hospitals. Previously Queensland hospitals were established solely by public donation. The colonial government, under Governor Bowen allocated £500 toward the establishment of the first public lying-in hospital.
From the outset, the Ladies' Committee of the Lying-In Hospital sought to achieve three aims: firstly to improve midwifery standards in the state, secondly to change community attitudes toward accepting childbirth in hospitals and thirdly to promote moral reform in unwed mothers. To achieve the first aim, the training of midwives was conducted from the earliest days of the hospital in the 1860s.
On the 1st of September 1864, a joint committee of ladies and gentlemen or the proposed Lying-In Hospital was held to consider the objectives of the new hospital. At this meeting, a Ladies' Committee was appointed in which the management of the institution was vested and comprising the wives of many early prominent Brisbane citizens. The Ladies Committee was supported by a men's committee who provided advice and reference as required. The hospital, officially called, the Queensland Lying-In Hospital, was opened on the 2nd of November 1864 in a house, Fairview, in Leichhardt Street, Spring Hill. This was described in an advertisement in the Brisbane Courier as having six large rooms, detached kitchen, and servant's room, with tank and yard. The Ladies' Committee rented Fairview for £120 per annum.
The hospital remained in this rented accommodation in Leichhardt Street until 1866 when the Lying-In Hospital was moved to a new purpose designed building in Ann Street, between Edward and Albert Street and adjacent to the Servants' Home (now known as the School of Arts). This was an eight roomed building with beds for twelve patients and ancillary rooms. In late 1867, this building was renamed the Lady Bowen Lying-In Hospital in recognition of the wife of Governor George Bowen, Lady Diamantina Roma Bowen. During her life in Queensland, Lady Bowen was an avid participant and organiser of charitable and social activities.
The Lady Bowen Lying-In Hospital remained in Ann Street for about twenty-five years until 1889 when a larger hospital was built, on the outskirts of the central business area of Brisbane and overlooking Albert Park. A bill was passed in parliament to allow for the sale of the hospital in Ann Street to allow the Ladies' Committee to procure land elsewhere for reasons that:
The situation is not by any means healthy, as the aspect is wrong for both breeze and sun; the situation is noisy; the present institution cannot be thoroughly cleaned without closing; and it is quite impossible to separate married women from single women, which separation is of course most desirable.
The Ann Street property was sold for £6000 and patients were transferred to a property in Wharf Street, awaiting the opening of the Wickham Terrace Hospital. In October 1888 the Ladies Committee acquired the Wickham Terrace property, where formerly the house of Reginald H Roe, Head Master of Brisbane Grammar School, was stied. Roe moved from his Wickham Terrace residence, known as Winholm, to a boarding house on the Brisbane Grammar site. Winholm is thought to have been demolished to make way for the lying-in hospital, certainly neither documentary nor physical evidence suggests that the house has been retained within the hospital complex.
Following the acquisition of the land, the Ladies' Committee commissioned Brisbane architect, John Hingestone Buckeridge to design the new two storeyed hospital. Buckeridge arrived in Brisbane in February 1887 to take up his appointment as the Diocesan architect for the Bishop of Brisbane, Dr Webber. Previously, Buckeridge worked in London as an architect following his training with prominent British ecclesiastical architect, John Loughborough Pearson and studied at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Architectural Association. His appointment to the Diocese of Brisbane was to assist Webber on an ambitious church building program. Following the death of his wife, Buckeridge accepted the position in Queensland where one of his principal jobs was the supervision of the Church of England Cathedral, Saint John's, designed by his former principal, JL Pearson. Buckeridge worked in the position of Diocesan Architect officially until 1902 although for many of the later years he lived in Sydney. He designed about 60 timber churches throughout south east Queensland, including Christ Church, Milton (1891); along with a number of public and commercial buildings including the Gresham Hotel.
The design Buckeridge provided for the Lady Bowen Hospital was for a two storeyed brick building with a substantial basement level and with capacity for fifty patients. The building was constructed by local contractor John Quinn who won the tender for construction of the building for £6200. The ground floor of the building housed an entrance hall, a sewing room for nurses and wards with bathrooms and linen rooms, Above on the first floor were a number of wards, and below in the basement were the nurses' dining room and kitchens. A separate building to the rear of the hospital was used for septic cases.
The foundation stone of the new hospital was laid by Lady Alice Norman on the 29th of May 1889 and the first patients were admitted to the hospital on the 1st of January 1890. No major additions or alterations were made to the complex until 1923 when the government approved the expenditure of £15 000 for the construction of a Nurses' Quarters to the west of the original building.
The introduction of the Hospitals Act 1923 established an alternate structure with regional hospital boards for the management of Queensland hospitals. The management of the Lady Bowen Lying-In Hospital was vested in the Brisbane and South Coast Hospital Board from 1924. This brought about standardised practice throughout Queensland hospitals and official government contributions to the funding of hospitals. The State government took over full responsibility for the running of hospitals in 1945. The Ladies' Committee officially disbanded in 1924, although they retained an advisory role on the new board of management.
By the 1920s, the Lady Bowen Hospital was seen to require upgrading and repairs. With growing concern over the high incidence of infant mortality, legislation was passed in the form of the Maternity Act 1922 to provide support and care for children and mothers. The Hospitals Board commissioned a report from the Professor of Obstetrics at the University of Sydney who recommended the construction of a new obstetrics hospital in the grounds of the Brisbane Hospital at Herston. The Hospitals Board were given government approval and funding in line with government platform, increasing support for women's and children's healthcare. The construction of a new obstetrics hospital, known as the Brisbane Women's Hospital was approved in 1929 and was opened in 1938. During this period Lady Bowen continued to operate and an operating theatre was constructed and sewerage system installed.
The Lady Bowen Hospital was closed and staff and patients were transferred to the new women's hospital which opened on the 26th of March 1938. This heralded an era of short term leasees and alterations to the buildings of the former Lady Bowen Hospital which continues to the present day. The many tenants who have occupied the buildings since 1938 include the Bridge Board, the Social Service League, Essential and Emergency Services of the Civil Defence Organisation, the Australian Army Canteen Services, the Stanley River Works Board, the Returned Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia, the Queensland State Archives, Agricultural Project (later the Agricultural and Environmental Education Branch and later, the Brisbane Urban Environmental Education Centre), the Australian Music Examination Board, Apprenticeship Board of Queensland, Department of Health (Chest Clinic for the Division of Health and Medical Physics), and the Queensland Writers Centre.
Of the tenants who have occupied the buildings since the relocation of the hospital, the various Army related tenants during World War II were most significant. The obvious impact of this tenancy was the construction of the two storeyed timber framed and fibrous-sheeting clad building on the corner of Wickham Terrace and Robert Street. In the early stages of the War the site was occupied by the Air Raid Warden's Organisation which became later the Civil Defence Organisation. In 1943 the site was acquired for use as a serviceman's club, known as Anzac House. During this occupation, the Royal Australian Engineers Unit were responsible for the conversion of the hospital into a hostel with dining and other recreational facilities. Across Wickham Terrace, in Albert Park, a related dance pavilion was constructed. This has since been demolished.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.