Yep - was definitely fairer than I thought it would be. Thanks to Anna for allowing us to witness your beautiful birth - and so wonderful for the rest of Australia to see it too.
Poo or no poo - it was awesome. My DH said "oh my god - how easy was that?" lol.
Hence why I want an intervention-free waterbirth!!

I think why so many people fear homebirth is because they translate all the complications they hear about in hospital births (high c-sect rates etc) and immediately assume that those complications would occur and the babies would die if the woman attempted to birth at home. What they always fail to mention is that the majority of the birth complications that occur in hospital occur because of intervention in the first place. Intervention (Induction/drugs = increased risk + complications = increased intervention).
The very fact that home birthing mothers reject artificial induction of labour and drugs is why the rate of true complications are so rare in homebirth - they simply cannot be compared to hospital births that use intervention in perfectly healthy women and babies.
It would be awesome if they compared the statistics for intervention-free hospital birth with artificially induced hospital births, for example.

Anyways..... the show was a step in the right direction. And yeah, the footage of the rally was great - I think it would have made alot of people stop and think.