Dannii Minogue transfers to hospital...

[Footsteps]

she has given birth to a little boy Ethan!!!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...-baby-boy.html

[HotI]

I must have been living in a bubble because i didn't know that Dannii was planning a homebirth. That article just sucks.

The first thing i said when i saw the news report last night that Dannii had had a baby, and it showed the hospital was 'I wonder if they assaulted her too?'

urgh, angry again

[Artechim]

Why on earth are Australians so anti homebirth? Here in NZ it is just an accepted, every day (govt funded) option. I just don't get it.

[Cherished]

Artechim, I don't really know either but I imagine it's just another way for he government to control everyone. It doesn't make sense when hospitals are over crowed and medical professionals are over worked. Sure if there were babies and mothers dying all over the country from homebirthing than the public would be screaming out for regulation, that isn't happening so I don't know?

[Mad Scientist]

I think that article is disgusting.

[Schmickers]

It's mainly pushed by the Australian Medical Association and the RANZCOG. I'm not sure why NZ has diverged so much, but I can only assume that there must have been some strong midwives back in the day who managed to make it (or keep it) mainstream so that the comparable NZ bodies couldn't marginalise it with fear uncertainty and doubt like they do here.

[HotI]

Based on that article, the media must also take some responsibility ... maybe they have been influenced by the AMA and cronies?
Many in the community also hold the same view...and that if a woman is transferred its like 'yes, she should have been there in the first place', where is the support

[Freya]

She has no way of knowing if the complications werent something that would have happened hospital OR homebirth. Most of the time the complications that warrant a transfer are NOT related to it being a homebirth, but just birth complications in general. Complication is an all encompassing word, it might have been something as simple as finding out bub was breech or something, not a worse case scenario *sigh*

Way to go you silly woman, bub isnt even 2 days old yet and already youve belittle poor Dannii and her birth experience. Shame shame shame.

Good on you for trying Dannii!

[~Kim~]

actually up here in the Territory it's a govt funded thing too.....homebirths I mean - they prefer you to have your bub at home....the new legislation thing has thrown a realy spanner in the works....not that up here will really pay that much attention anyway lol.

[~Kaz~]

actually up here in the Territory it's a govt funded thing too.....homebirths I mean - they prefer you to have your bub at home....the new legislation thing has thrown a realy spanner in the works....not that up here will really pay that much attention anyway lol.

OT but Kim, I'm coming to stay with you for my next bub!!