Dear All
I encourage all to have their say particuarly
consumers with previous homebirth expereince.
I concur with Sally and would add that I also am
sad we are following a model from overseas when we have a unique Australian
Model - a community based program established by midwives and consumers with the
backing of doctors also but ones who understand that most women can manage fine
on their own but more safely with a midwife they know and they have
accepted.
The English environment of birth is not that of
Australia those who have worked there know that most of the doctors there also
know and accept that women can birth fine with a midwife and they do not want to
interfere or come till the midwife says!!
Many of those UK obs who do not like the UK
system and want to deliver normal women come here!!
In my expereince it is they and their colleagues who run our hospitals and our medical services. I understand Justine's fears having been in the
offices of politicians across the country and having seen so many services
withdrawn/restricted thru the pressures of 'others' when the outcomes are
fine and the midwives and women are happy!!
If we settle for less than NMAP or replication of
CMP will Australian women be expected to ask for nothing else!!
Some of the things I think consumers and
midwives contemplating support of this service need to ask is how many of
the women in this system will be 'allowed" to opt out of so many tests that I
found were routine in NSW that few of the homebirth couples I have known refuse;
eg;
12 or 20 week ultra sounds
GTT
GpB strep testing
genetic testing if an "eldery" primip or
multip
How long will they be allowed to stay home with
ruptured membranes?
How long past 40 weeks will they be allowed
??
Births with no VE with labours of 8 or more
hours??
Vitamin K
What of the Hep B & other immunisations??
When they refuse the giudelines will their midwives
be withdrawn ?
This is not the UK no health service is obliged to provide a midwife for a woman who refuses to come to hospital? And what of the midwife who wants to support a woman who does not want to follow giudelines?? CMP is the subject & desire of NMAP.
CMP has better outcomes than
Albany,
CMP is run by women and
midwives,
in our culture of birth interventions &
domination with no other options I feel we can ill afford to settle for
less as a first option?
Denise Hynd
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Title: RE: [ozmidwifery] New models of midwifery care
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- Re: [ozmidwifery] New models of mid... Lesley Kuliukas
- Re: [ozmidwifery] New models of mid... Jo Bourne
- RE: [ozmidwifery] New models of mid... Sally Westbury
- RE: [ozmidwifery] New models of mid... Jo Bourne
- Re: [ozmidwifery] New models of mid... Denise Hynd
- Re: [ozmidwifery] New models of mid... Marilyn Kleidon
- Re: [ozmidwifery] New models of mid... Dierdre Bowman
- Re: [ozmidwifery] New models of mid... Marilyn Kleidon
- Re: [ozmidwifery] New models of mid... Denise Hynd
- Re: [ozmidwifery] New models of mid... Marilyn Kleidon
- Re: [ozmidwifery] New models of mid... Dierdre Bowman
- Re: [ozmidwifery] New models of mid... Dierdre Bowman
- Re: [ozmidwifery] New models of mid... jo hunter
- [ozmidwifery] Blur between obstetri... Sue Cookson
- [ozmidwifery] CMP homebirth Mary Murphy