A message was left at my office by someone wanting a midwife to fly to Sth
Korea for the birth of a 2nd baby. I beleive that the woman is 36 weeks
pregnant. I have not returned the phone call yet and probably wont as I am
unable to help.
The phone No is 82 2796 0572.
The name was ? Julie
I am pleased to announce that our Health Insurance, Army Health Benefits,
paid up on the costs of our birth at home supported by a Midwife in private
practice, her insurance status not questioned (of course there isn't any).
We are not in the Defence, they opened the cover up to Telstra
Megan,
That is so fantastic. I have been currently doing my own search for health
insurance which covers private midwifes and supports homebirths.
The only one so far I have found that definitely provides for midwifes is
Australian United. They cover private midwifes under their comprehensive
Hiya. The OB left to go overseas. This town
(pop 4,500aprox) has a problem with getting GPs to stay heresomething else
we are addressing, along with the problem of having no bulk billing GPs.
So, the OB left, and now there is a new doc taking her place, but he is still
unsure if he
Dear Macha: I liked Wendy's response. It seems that we should be writing
grant/funding proposals for midwifery led care for rural communities
throughout Australia. I was recently up in North Queensland and discovered
that maternity care at the local hospital where I grew up (Tully) was
I'm signing off for a while...attending the Homebirth Conference at
Katoomba this weekend which is looking wonderful...hope to catch up with
many of you there...Cheers...Vicki
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Dear Joy,
Sending a message of support for your comment in
regard to birthing at home after a previous caesarean. Lets not lose the art of
trusting women to trust their own bodies and supporting women to make a decision
based on their own knowledge,values and beliefs.
Kind regards, Deb Minge
I think it is up to us in rural communities to
ensure these services remain available. Yes, Marilyn we do have air
ambulance and RFDS available plus retreival teams from major centres.
Having said that RFDS in SA will not accept a multi labouring women for transfer
via the air - this is
sorry hit wrong button and sent it directly to
Jo
- Original Message -
From:
Steve
Bronni McGrath
To: Joanna Davis
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 4:48
PM
Subject: Re: Reasons for choosing
homebirth
I would add that i believe most
women do
