I have just been in touch with our Dept of Births Deaths and Marriages again for an update on babies registered as being born at home. The numbers change each year as there are some people who don't register their child until they need to go to school so I get updates for each year.
So far what we have in NSW is
actual number of home births registered number of PLANNED HOME BIRTHS reported to perinatal data collection (NSW Midwives Data Collection)
1999 493 139
2000 394 108
2001 388 144
2002 322 99
2003 383 109
2004 359 don't have the 2004 figures from NSWMD collection yet - hope to have them soon - the BD&M are much more organised with data collection but I guess that is because they have motivated providers of their data (the parents). Even though there has been a law since the 1990s that states all doctors and midwives who attend home births must submit their data - the NSWMD knows a lot of health professionals fail to report. There is no law that states unattended home births have to be reported to the NSWMDC.
2005 to date 197
You can see there is quiet a difference in the records
I'd love some budding Master's student to get busy on this one as I won't have time for it until I retire and that won't be until we get the home births publicly funded across the country.
I feel sure that if primary care midwives had the medicare provider number a lot of those unattended women would have a registered midwife with them for the birth.
Cheers
Jan
Jan Robinson Independent Midwife Practitioner
National Coordinator Australian Society of Independent Midwives
8 Robin Crescent South Hurstville NSW 2221 Phone/Fax: 02 9546 4350
e-mail address: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> website: www.midwiferyeducation.com.au
it doesnt say but they would be able to tell you. They are quite forethcoming with info or you may be able to get it from their website as a lot of the past documents are on there. I havent got time tonight to look
Andrea Q
On 14/09/2005, at 6:35 PM, Denise Hynd wrote:
Dear Andrea
Have these BBA births in Vic increased since the loss of MIPP insurance and some midwives withdrawing from practice??
Jan Robinson said there was an increased in these births there possibly some more un assisted hombirths in NSW over this period!!
She found this by comparing the midwife and birth notification figures because the latter would include women who birthed at home and did not go to hospital
Denise Hynd
"Let us support one another, not just in philosophy but in action, for the sake of freedom for all women to choose exactly how and by whom, if by anyone, our bodies will be handled."
- Linda Hes
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Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] perinatal stats
Unplanned out of hospital births (BBA) were 254
Andrea
On 14/09/2005, at 5:29 PM, Tania Smallwood wrote:
Just out of interest Andrea, what is the number of bba's in comparison?
Someone recently pointed out to me that if the women here in SA who had a
quick labour and then didn't make it to the hospital, had had access to a
midwife who could have come to their home, the number of 'homebirths' would
have been nearly doubled. Funny how those women are seen as 'lucky' and yet
the one's planning a birth at home attended by a midwife are 'stupid'!
Cheers
Tania
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I received my 2004 homebirths profile from VPDCU in the mail today and
was happy to see that the number of planned homebirths for 2004 was
181 up from 154 the year before and from 132 in 1999 so keep up the
good work everyone
Andrea Quanchi
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