Homebirth General Discussion #1

[Tegam]

And they're waging a war against freebirthers too with not issuing birth certs so they will effectively stamp that out leaving a hospital only "choice" for all women

What? I havent heard this? My MW didnt make the birth. 10mins from 1st feeling to baby out. If/when we have another baby, it will be a whereever i am birth, so how will they deny me a birth cert. They wont know i planned the birth at home? Not if we book into hospitals, like most homebirther do anyway as back up!

[easterbub09]

yah happy birthing vibes bimboo hope to hear the fab news very very soon!!

very sad re the travesty that has occured for australian women, all we can do now is try and spread the word and educate those around us so that we can all work against this new legislation!

i believe feb 18th is going to be national day of action with rallies in every state so lets try and have the biggest turn out possible and see if we cant have some input!

Hear us loud and hear us proud we want our birth choice back!!!!

[lucyinthesky]

yah happy birthing vibes bimboo hope to hear the fab news very very soon!!

very sad re the travesty that has occured for australian women, all we can do now is try and spread the word and educate those around us so that we can all work against this new legislation!

i believe feb 18th is going to be national day of action with rallies in every state so lets try and have the biggest turn out possible and see if we cant have some input!

Hear us loud and hear us proud we want our birth choice back!!!!

spread the word, I had heard that 18 Feb was only in VIC or something would love to protest (again) I am one very angry woman at the moment - how dare they tell me how I'm "allowed" to use MY BODY.

I had a dream they made cosleeping illegal too - woke up very distressed!

[Alan]

I have had paperwork “go missing” on 2 occasions in the past 6 months.

[Tegam]

Sorry alan dont mean to be S.....L......O....W (i blame it on sleep) but what do you mean by 'paper work go missing'?

[fourthontheway]

Birth registration papers "going missing" or not being processed

Yk the more I think about this the more I see that it's really NOTHING to do with safety for women and babies. If it were about safety then they would be facilitating homebirth / free birth transfers, birth registration etc, however they're doing the exact opposite of that .... this is about money, and coltrol, not safety.

The AMA and RANZCOG must have been DELIGHTED by the maternity services review because the entire thing focussed on banning homebirth instead of focusing on their dangerous over medicalised practices and the impact they're having on women and babies, and the amount of money that the govt is spending to pay them for doing unnecessary surgery, inductions, etc etc.

[lucyinthesky]

Precisely- a review done for the government said this

"All facilities should offer women choice of carer and place of birth, more education and should promote midwife-led care across the continuum. An enormous obstacle is private obstetric charges, as obstetricians may be hesitant to forgo lucrative incomes of up to $9,000 per pregnancy, with some Sydney doctors reported to be charging up to $12,000 and earning collectively up to $1.4 billion per year." (from here http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/maternityservicesreview-741/$FILE/741_Toohill%20&%20Soong_scanned.pdf) please remove if i am not allowed to link

lets not forget the AMA is A UNION! Of course they are going to protect their members income. Perhaps they are scared because HB numbers have progressively been rising and every study conducted appropriately has shown it to be safe.

Regardless, This shouldn't be an slanging match of safety, it is the birthing woman's right to evaluate risk for herself and decided for HERSELF where she will birth. We are not children, we do not need to be told where we can use our vagina's.

[lucyinthesky]

What? I havent heard this? My MW didnt make the birth. 10mins from 1st feeling to baby out. If/when we have another baby, it will be a whereever i am birth, so how will they deny me a birth cert. They wont know i planned the birth at home? Not if we book into hospitals, like most homebirther do anyway as back up!

I have heard NSW BDM are being VERY difficult with freebirthers - to the point that they are refusing to issue even with stat decs from parents and a letter from a GP stating that they saw the woman during pregnancy, to the point where the parents were advised to get a solicitor. I have heard that they are now starting to do the same with MW homebirths and "losing" paperwork both in QLD and NSW (even paperwork that was sent registered mail)