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December 2003 Update

Welcome to the third quarterly update of the TABS website!

Replacing our Newsletter, this page briefly describes and provides links to the updates located elsewhere in this site.

Included are two things that we would particularly like to bring to your attention:

• Cheryl Beck has briefly updated us about her upcoming article.
• We are always pleased to expand our list of counsellors within New Zealand. We would especially like to hear from people outside Auckland who can offer appropriate help.

We are delighted to notify you of the updates to our website listed below. We make contact with a wide range of groups to promote our message about PTSD being a valid and viable explanation for some maternal mental and emotional health issues. We are very grateful when they mention us on their websites, and we pay them the same courtesy. Many of our links arise from contacts such as these, as well as from other groups who discover and approach us independently.

TABS Study Day: Auckland, New Zealand: 15 March 2004. Click on this link for more details.

Thank you for your continued interest in our website. As at 6.20 am NZDT on November 30 2003, our site had received 8247 visits since it was launched, an additional 3644 in the last three months.

Thank you for your continued support and your responses. We are aware that many people who receive our information do not contact us. That is fine, though of course we do like to hear from people - our main concern is for PTSD sufferers to receive help of whatever kind is appropriate through the information that we are providing.

Thank you again for visiting this site - we hope you will one or more of our updates helpful.

Sue, on behalf of the TABS Committee

The study on birth trauma has been accepted for publication. The article will appear in Nursing Research, a journal, early next year. In the article, Cheryl acknowleges the part that TABS has played in the study.

New Zealand Counsellors wanted

To meet the demand in New Zealand for counsellors who are skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of PTSD, TABS wishes to maintain a list of appropriately skilled and qualified practitioners.

TABS is prepared to list such people in return for a fee - that will go towards the maintenance and updating of this website.

If you would like such a listing, please log your request by completing and forwarding the attached form.

Articles - added items

• JOAN DONLEY'S COMPENDIUM FOR A HEALTHY PREGNANCY AND A NORMAL BIRTH, Joan Donley: Auckland, 2003, vi & 402 pp: this book covers a very wide range of birth-related topics, based on her research, experience and practice. Joan is an internationally acclaimed advocate for normal birth.
  This book may be purchased from the Women's Bookshop at a cost $39.95 excluding postage and packaging.
• When Birth Becomes a Nightmare, an article that appeared on the home page of www.xtra.co.nz on 13 October 2003.
• Little Treasures Magazine was instrumental in bringing together the founding members of TABS, and their support for the work of TABS since then has been very helpful to many mothers. In the November 2003 edition, the 100th edition, the magazine included TABS in a feature about how the Magazine has helped mothers and families.

More links

• New Zealand
• Ruth DeSouza, an Auckland educator, is committed to empowering people and organisations through consultancy, training, advocacy and facilitation. This site covers a number of relevant topics.
• See the listing below for NAROF, an international group - the Australasian Administrator contacted us.

• Canada:
• Mother Care: this group offers childbirth education, postpartum doula support and much more. Their goals are to better support our clients, as well as providing quality education and support to birth professionals.

• United Kingdom:
• tokophobia.org.uk: in this site, a mother invites others to contact her with a view to raising the profile of tokophobia.

• United States
• NAROF (Neonatology and rights of families): NAROF is an international rights, advocacy and support group. Our group was established to give voice to families raising impaired NICU survivors, and to parents and professionals critical of current practices in neonatology.
• We have been advised of an update to David Baldwin's Trauma Information Pages.

• Postpartum Dads: this website is intended to help other dads by providing firsthand information and guidance through the experience of PPD. Their message is one of hope, that "your wife can overcome PPD and you can have a happy, love filled family."

• New Zealand - coming events

• New Zealand Lactation Consultants Conference 2004 - for lactation consultants, midwives, Plunket nurses and others interested in the health, immunological, developmental, psychological, social, economic and environmental benefits of breast feeding.

Select here a previous update (updates to main body of website now omitted):

• 1 June 2003
• 1 September 2003