was that ur son who said "babies come out of mums vaginas" i thought that was so cute :)
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was that ur son who said "babies come out of mums vaginas" i thought that was so cute :)
Um yes. I really would have laid money that that wouldn't make the cut.:redface:
haha, it was very cute. Good on you for putting your experience on national tv :clap:
Well done on being part of what sounds like a mostly favourable towards homebirth segment Anna!
thanks for putting the link up! It wasn't there ealier when I looked :D
Bloody awesome! I really hope it came across to the general public that Pesce was talking out of his arse and actually lying about the 'planned homebirth' mortality rates.
Loved the footage of the rally, too - I saw the top of my beanie in one cutaway!
You were treated so well, Anna :)
That'll be me in a few weeks, in my birth pool, blissing out!
I definatley noticed how different the babies were after birth, even DH commented on it.
The show has really made me want a home birth just that tiny bit more now!
Well done Anna as well :)
Just a question, the hospital baby was clearly a Csect, a vaginal hospital baby would be more alert like a homebirth vaginal birth right? It probably wasn't the best comparison to make.
Oh, and the bit where the OB was talking to the woman before her csect, and was asking her if she was going to breastfeed this one, I thought PFFT, how many OBs actually do spend time chatting before the op and care about breastfeeding? I know there would be some, but this guy just doesn't come accross as one of those to me.
When the Ob was talking about stats and was talking about a "planned hospital birth", i wondered whether he was talking about all hospitals births or just c-sections, in that there is more planning (and less left to nature/baby to contribute).
it was a really nice piece.
I am really wondering about the stats he quoted? How on earth could that be right, when there are so many more higher-risk births taking place in hospital? And so many more inductions? I don't get it, and I wish they'd be more specific about where they get their information. So frustrating.
Dunno... I guess the outcome would be similar if the vag birth in hospital took place in a pool with no drugs. I thought Anna's baby looked so very peaceful rather than alert. My vag births in hospital haven't taken place in water and my babies were both screaming their heads off, LOL! Phoebe quietened down fairly quickly cause she had a feed straight off the bat. Natty wasn't interested in feeding straight away though... and she cried that whole first night pretty much.:
Just a question, the hospital baby was clearly a Csect, a vaginal hospital baby would be more alert like a homebirth vaginal birth right? It probably wasn't the best comparison to make
That was awesome Anna (I do remember thinking at the time if this Mumma is a member of BB!!) :dance:.
I liked your son saying that too, my DD who is 5 was giggling away behind her hand!!
It was great for her to watch actually, I was able to tell her that this was what Mummy was doing when she was in hospital having DS (in the bath etc) and she was fascinated. I would really love a Home birth if we have a third, after realising just how amazing my body is when having DS in March, which was drug free and he was 11pd, it made me realise that if I just listen to my body and follow your natural instincts it is amazing what your body and mind can do.
I think the example of the Home Birth that went wrong in the US is a prime example of what happens when you take peoples freedom of choice away....suddenly everything is pushed underground and then there are no regulations in place...this couple had to pick a unregistered MW and had no way of checking on her credibility....couple that with her being afraid of being prosecuted and it was a disaster before it even began.
I think the Obs statistics come from studies that compare all hospital births to all births outside hospital. This would include freebirths (no midwife), unplanned homebirths, babies born on the way to hospital (car,ambulance, side of road) as well as homebirths with qualified midwifes.:
Why the red face? It shows you informed your son about anatomy.:
Congratulations on the safe arrival of your beautiful baby!
Well done on a very successful view on home birth.
Oh and i saw it was baby gunk, not poo!
Congratulations Anna on your HB and thank you for sharing this with us all... I attended the rally in Canberra and this is the first footage I have seen of it anywhere.. To anyone who watched this on Channel 7's site, I just wanted to see if you noticed that there is a poll for whether you believe women should have the choice to HB and I just voted and the numbers were 96% say yes and 4% say no... great outcome in a poll.. Thanks again Anna.. a beautiful birth...
Anna - such a beautiful birth to watch, thank you for sharing it.
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. :clap:
It was a bald-faced lie or plain ignorance on Pesce's part to cite that study - neither trait of which I like to see in a health professional. He kept saying 'planned homebirth' and the stats included more than just planned HB's! They also included high-risk women, high-risk women who just didn't make it to a planned hospy birth, etc. It was a skewed study. He only ever uses the one study and says others arent' relevant because they were conducted in other countries. What he's trying to say is that Australian women are somehow biologically so different from Dutch, NZ, and UK birthing women that the stats cannot possibly be be used to support HB in Oz. We are only systematically different - by using HIS preferred system, Oz women are at a distinct disadvantage! At the Senate Inquiry he tried to say he was for choice, just not HB choice...ummm...listen to yourself!
Anyway, I think the HB gone wrong was also a perfect illustration of an underground HB. THe couple would have been better off freebirthing and going with their feeling that it wasn't going right :( That would still have been the product of an unregulated system and not fair on the family. Yes, the baby may well have lived had they been at hospy...and had a MW who wasn't scared, who was more skilled than fearful and who had some professional cred to front up to the hospy with.
My DS was a FBC waterbirth with HypnoBirthing and he was born quite like Anna's. The effect of moving from home was on me, and I never want to get into a car during labour ever again if I don't need to :)
I am really pleasantly surprised at how well Ch 7 produced this piece, and it now is clear to me why we saw the Ch7 people there at the rally and next to no reporting on that night's news...they were making THIS!
Good heavens, did anyone take him seriously?!? (I know people must do, but come on. How ridiculous a statement is that?):
At the Senate Inquiry he tried to say he was for choice, just not HB choice