Would you give birth in a midwifery led unit?

[Smoke Jaguar]

Kuraiza - if hospital births are for emergencies, we sure are in a hell of a pickle if most of our births are happening in that environment! No, the call for REAL choice by funding MW care and homebirths comes about because a lot of women go the 'free' option of the hospital to get a hospital birth, but to get a birth with no complications that costs even less than an medicalised birth, you have to pay through the nose. This is not 'choice'. It's a bitter pill to swallow to birth peacefully but expensively, when women who are happy to surrender themselves to medicos (or not happy to, whichever applies) pay nothing! Therefore, government-funded MW care births are a compromise in this situation. I took this compromise the first time with DS.
I loved my care at the Angliss and the continuity of care was excellent. I loved that I was able to have my waterbirth. I hated having to move from labouring at home, to transitioning upon arrival at the FBC. But at least I knew I was going to a 'safe' place, where they knew me and what I wanted for my birth experience
I reckon that dropping the Baby Bonus amount back to what it was last year and paying for normal births at home with MW's would be a forward step. I mean, you have a medicalised birth and you keep the whole BB afterwards, like a double-dip. You have a normal birth at home and lose all the BB in paying for MW's, none left for baby once it's here. Makes no sense.
Nelle: look up Midwives Naturally and you'll hopefully see who I mean. Not wanting to post her name here, just in case she wouldn't want it plastered over the net out of the midwife team context Obviously, she doesn't work alone!