Bat Phone - Help!

[callistra]

I have a friend whose husband has left her with two children and she is due to have her third baby in about three weeks. Her mum lives in Denmark, and has taken the two girls to give her some rest, but she has no one to help her with the birth. Her fucker of a husband won't be there, and she is depressed at the moment (understandably) and lives in Mandurah.

Does any one know of any sort of service that can help her, either by providing support or something? I can't get to Mandurah in any sort of decent time, plus I don't have the back up systems in place like I did for Splanky.

She is due in three weeks!

God I hate men sometimes.
This is the second time a man has left an 8 months pregnant woman with two previous of his children. If it's so fucking rare and we don't need feminism any more, then why the fuck does this keep happening? Why the fuck does a man think that a single night a fortnight is "parenting" or "fathering" a child? It's more disruptive than helpful, and really, I bet he will whine about child support and all that shit too. Fucker.

Comments

[chaosmanor.livejournal.com]

Futher to the doula suggestions, when a partner of mine walked out on me when my first child was tiny, ABA (http://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/), which was then called Nursing Mothers, helped me out with emotional and practical support. I know the local ABA group I was in also had a collection once, for one of the mums whose partner had threatened her and her children with a weapon. We raised the airfares for her and her kids to fly east that same day.

[callistra.livejournal.com]

Now that's awesome.

[chaosmanor.livejournal.com]

I learnt feminism through ABA. You wouldn't believe the organising power of 20 or 30 exhausted women with sore nipples.

[callistra.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of joining the ABA. I'm a bit scared. :-)

I was also thinking of joining the CWA.

[kaths.livejournal.com]

Dunno what they're like now, but many hours in my formative years were spent at Nursing Mothers meetings - my mum was the state president at one point I think :)

Some of my earliest memories include of watching mum help someone with breastfeeding, and also going to a talk (refused to stay at home with the babysitter) and seeing pictures of breasts projected onto a screen. That's all I remember from the talk!

Anyway, if they're in any way the same, they can be a fantastic support group and have lots of resources.