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Comment on Election 2010: Macquarie Ind. Candidate to Highlight Maternity Reform by Amy Bell

Amy Bell — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:32:07 +0000

The support from my community has been overwhelming. Issues once thought ‘radical’ are normalising, however, this trend in common thought is being completely overlooked by the two majors who have extremely conservative views and a focus on fear-based democracy. (democracy HA!)

Comment on New information on professional indemnity insurance for midwives by Joy Johnston

Joy Johnston — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:39:24 +0000

Hello
I am the writer of this article, and it was originally posted at http://midwivesvictoria.blogspot.com/ pm Wed 4 August, 2010. The article, and the scanned flow chart, can be accessed by clicking the first paragraph at this blog.
Please include a link to the original article. (I’m not sure who is the blogger, or would contact you separately)
Joy Johnston

Comment on Home births a major risk by Bobby

Bobby — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 09:36:18 +0000

A shame that you have let your personal experience cloud your judgment. Look at the statistics, in particular the role of unnecessary intervention in today’s hospital system. Women who choose to birth at home often don’t do so because they want an ‘earth loving, feel good experience’, they do it because they want to avoid the cascade of interventions foisted upon them in a hospital system not prepared to advocate for normal physiological childbirth.

Comment on Overdue NSW woman gets police check up by Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:35:03 +0000

I guess if the hospital is too incompetent to take down a birthing woman’s details, on the off chance they need to contact them, then they can hardly be trusted to care for a birthing woman. But then perhaps I am making the rather big assumption that they actually have telephones in Australia!
Isn’t it a criminal offence to waste police time?

Comment on Home births a major risk by Claire

Claire — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:13:07 +0000

I’m sorry to hear about your traumatic birth of your son and sad that it has scarred you emotionally. I’m sorry to hear that you don’t support home birth and sad again to hear that you think women who birth at home are doing it only for themselves and deliberately putting their unborn child’s life at risk. To fully understand that they are birthing at home because they truly believe they are giving their child the very best start, and the very best help and environment they could possibly provide takes a quantum shift in mentality and you need to talk to women who have been through it as they have experienced or at least shared the experience of countless women who have been in your shoes too.
Before you go judging other people’s choices, there are a lot of books to read and internet sights that can help inform you, (and women to talk to) to find out why these women chose to birth at home. Unfortunately, deaths of babies hit the headlines for private midwives because they are not indemnified, whereas for the hundreds of babies that die in hospital - the insurers sweep under the carpet.
You a truly lucky to have a beautiful son despite his traumatic birth and no one wants to lose their baby when at the very beginning of their life on earth - to think that any mother, would dream of doing this in order to have a home birth is a misguided thought.
If you inform yourself firstly about the pros and cons of induction and the cascade of intervention that often results from taking a child prematurely in a ‘managed’ birth - your birth was a textbook example of how quickly one intervention can lead to another. This is exactly what homebirthers are attempting to avoid. Read comprehensively about induction, it will help you understand and perhaps quieten your emotional scars.
I’m 27, and birthed my now 7 month old son at home, after a quiet, intense and at times, painful, but earthshatteringly enormous and fulfilling. The labour lasted 7 hours and i went into labour naturally, trusting that when the baby’s lungs were fully developed, and he was ripe, that it would signal my body to initiate the cascade of hormones required to start labour. I went into labour at 40 weeks plus 10 days. Not a single internal exam, piece of equipment, or interruption. My husband held my hands, and the only time the midwife touched me was to rub my back and listen to the baby’s heartbeat at regular intervals. At all times the three of us trusted that this was exactly what my body was designed to do and we trusted that this was the process that it takes to bring new life into the world. We all also understood that birth is like nothing else and you cannot control it and that babies do, sometimes, sadly die before, during and after, whether you are in hospital or not. Our midwife had oxygen and syntocin available in the event of need and the hospital was 5 minutes down the road, but I never even thought of it during the entire birth. He was born 7lb2oz, 54cm long.
I now have the most beautiful and adorable son who is the light of my life and I did everything humanly possible to make his entry into the world the safest and gentlest way.
Homebirthers don’t birth because it’s a fad - they birth because they are so well informed they couldn’t do it any other way without knowing they would be jeopardising their child’s safety. Those that do follow fads are the ones who get into trouble.
I sincerely hope that I have not offended you in any way - I just hope that this helps you see things from a different perspective and helps you begin your search for understanding why women homebirth. I also respect that there are cases when women and babies truly need the help of doctors and drugs and hospitals and am supportive of medicine in it’s right place.
Kindest regards and best of luck with your research,
Sincerely, Claire

Comment on Nicola Roxon Media Release: Historic step forward for midwives and nurse practitioners by e papieros

e papieros — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:41:25 +0000

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Comment on mybirth.com.au - blog article by Stanley S.

Stanley S. — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:26:36 +0000

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Comment on Fixing the “collaborative arrangements” problem by Business Electricity

Business Electricity — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:43:03 +0000

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Comment on Access for pregnant women to Medicare funded midwifery care on the way by Dheen

Dheen — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:56:16 +0000

Your writing is very inspiring me. Thaks’ for sharing

Comment on Enough is Enough - Women’s Rights NOT Medical Interest by Val

Val — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:22:21 +0000

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