Dear All I understand that Carmen Lawrence is attending the Homebirth Week Awareness picnic in Geelong and that as she is the MP for Fremantle and supporter of the Community Midwifery Program WA that she and other Labour (women) MPs support the replication of CMWA acroos the country if Labour wins the election!!
Now is the time for all of us to visit our federal MP's and all candidates to secure their committment to universal access to midwifery models of care for all Australains!!! This list can be help in generating ideas, strategies and keeping all energised and infromed as previously!! My local MP recommends that you have a specific strategy to ask polies to implement (rather than a concept)so I am opting for; 1) Replication of the Community Midwifery WA across the country. 2) Access for Community Midwives/MIPP's to every maternity unit across the country (as recommended by NHMRC and every review of maternity services in the past 2 decades). 3) Establishment of birth centres and team midwifery projects in every maternity unit across the country. 4) Introduction of no fault health insurance as in NZ in light of the insurance industry collapses which will probably be escalated after the WTC. What else is happening? What have been repsonses other have had?? Denise ---- Original Message ----- From: "Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ozmidwifery list (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 9:36 AM Subject: national homebirth awareness week 25-31 October > G'day > Several people have asked me if the midwifery campaign has posters that > express the goal of a known midwife and choice of place of birth. > > We don't, but that shouldn't stop anyone from making up their own. > > My suggestion is that anyone who has the computer capacity and know-how (or > children/friends/partner) should make up posters (A4 pages can be > enlarged). The posters should have a simple message such as a quote from a > woman as to why she chose to plan homebirth. > "I chose homebirth because ..." > Here are a couple of examples: > > "I chose homebirth because I want safety for myself and my baby." > "I chose homebirth because giving birth is one of the most intimate and > important acts I will ever engage in." > national homebirth awareness week > 25-31 October > [insert your local homebirth/maternity group's contact number] > > If you like this idea, and are able to make up some posters, please > consider sharing your ideas via this list. Some people who can't do it for > themselves may want to have copies made and posted to them, so you would > need to set a fee to cover your costs. Also some might be prepared to > share photos. Some of the photos on my website would be suitable, and the > women would agree - I'll have to go through them. > > Not much time to get this organised, but it is do-able. > Happy poster-making > Joy Johnston > 25 Eley Rd Blackburn South Vic 3130 > Tel: 03 9808 9614 > Fax: 03 9808 3611 > M: 04111 90448 > www.aitex.com.au/joy.htm > > > -- > This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. > Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe. -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
