COVID-19 updates

Charlotte Kells

Give midwives masks for their antenatal appointments!!! A baby in america has recently died from corona virus and there are stories of pediatrician's testing positive for the virus after interacting with many pregnant women and their babys!! My midwife still goes to the hospital for deliveries and I do not want to see her unless she wears a mask! :(

Well, it has been said and stated. Now let's hope there is a pack couriers to our homes in the next 48-72hrs of all that we need. Not too much to ask for being on call 24/7 and doing the job plus plus, that we do.

Thank you NZCOM. I appreciate everything you do for us. Stay safe everyone

This is the best thing I’ve seen since the start of this Thank you 💜

Perfectly said - thank you Alison and the team

Yay!!! Finally! NZCOM has finally stood with us and up for us and is trying to keep us and mothers /babies safe!

Fantastic work NZCOM!

Amen and thank you.. thank you for all your hard work NZCOM We finally feel heard

Thank you! Finally feel heard!

Thank you Alison!

Thank you!!!!!

Thank you!! 💕

Thank you 💜

About time...thank you 🙌

Many thanks 😊

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Awesome NZCOM - thank you for having our back and listening to your members

If we are “acting” as if we have Covid-19, why aren’t we protecting ourselves with every contact as if they too have it?? The PPE that is provided in a hospital setting is certainly not protective enough to wear if working with a confirmed case. The one pack of PPE gear that North Shore LMC’s have been provided with (if they were lucky enough to get one!) is definitely not enough protection when dealing with potentially 20-30 if not more women over an entire 4 week period. Seriously concerning and vulnerable times, some clarification and support before it’s too late is essential. Thank you for your behind the scenes work. Action now is imperative.

We should have PPE or at least mask from the beginning of COVID 19. Because we are currently self isolated as level 4 that means we are treated like COVID 19 positive. So we should treated women like COVID 19 positive although asymptomatic as we do not know who has got it.

Thank you, this is the same concern among us LMCs as per our prime minister's words we should act that we all are covid 19 positive, however the recommendations are quite different for us midwives, it's quite confusing and stressful, I have a young family don't want to risk anything

I really hope the recommendations are changed ASAP, we don’t feel safe and are potentially transmitting his virus to our women and babies 😢

Thanks for supporting our concerns

Save the midwives, save the mothers and babies.

Hallelujah . Thank you

Thank you!!

Yes yes yes!!!!

Thank you Jacqui. Appreciate the hard work you are all putting in on our behalf .

Great Jacqui - I’m so impressed with the fantastic job NZCOM are doing with providing sensible and evidence based advice to midwives. We are sharing it out to other midwives associations around the world who are not able to do this themselves fir so many reasons you will know. Thank you NZCOM xx

Evidence based? This "novel" virus has only been around a few months. The small amount of evidence suggests that midwives NEED PPE. Midwives are dying. Midwives are putting their families and other clients at risk every.single.time they attend someone in labour without basic protection. NYC has had several pregnant women who were ASYMPTOMATIC on presentation in the labour ward, went on to develop symptoms, tested positive and the whole team of 15+ medical/obstetric personnel were put at risk. We cant get hand sanitiser. We cant get wipes. We cant get masks. Shit right now we cant even get scrubs!!!! There is very very very little evidence about this virus so please dont try to placate those of us going out every day and putting not only our lives on the line, but the lives of our kids and loved ones if we bring this home for want of protective gear.

Thank you 🙏🏻 Very appreciative of the personal communication and all the hard work you guys are doing.

Thank you all for all your hard work, I don’t envy any of you. Thank you for providing guidelines that respects and reflects the autonomy and diversity of midwifery care in New Zealand. Feeling supported and represented, thanks team xx

thank you Jacqui and team, from the heart and shows us how you are working hard for us out here in the community,much appreciated ❤🙏

Very reassuring to hear this message and know info from the front line is getting to HO. Kia kaha NZCOM. Thank you for your hard work.

Great to hear from the College. Very personal and great to have some things clarified

Thank you Jacqui and the whole team for all your hard work!

This is awesome. Jacqui and team - thank you.

Thanks Jacqui. It is certainly a time for us to all work together.

Thanks. Nice to hear from NZCOM. Agree, nice to have video rather than more emails at the moment

It was great to have video, thank you all

Thanks Jacqui, it’s actually so nice to see a video of you as we have had so much written information in the last few days.

Thanks Jacqui and the team at NZCOM

I'll thank NZCOM when they GET US SAFETY gear!

Great video thanks Jacqui

Appreciate this video thank you

Well done Jacqui, thank you

Well done Jacqui and thanks x

Good job Jacqui!

Thank you Jacqui xx

Thanks Jacqui and NZCOM.

Thank you

Thanks so much Jacqui!!