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Sent: Sunday, 25 June 2006 11:55 PM
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Subject: [2006hbaconf] Media article 22/6/06 Geelong Advertiser
Hi all,
Read below for the article that appeared in the Geelong Advertiser
on 22/6/06. Hopefully lots more to come....
Janine :-)
Focus On Regional Births
Advocates will use a Home Birth Australia conference in Geelong to
push for improvement of maternity servies in regional Australia.
Up to 360 people will attend forums on July 1 and 2 and hear
speakers including revered American midwife and author Ina May
Gaskin.
Organisers hope the Bringing Birth Back Home conference will help
generate momentum in a campaign against the loss of maternity
services for women living in rural and remote Australia.
They want acknowledgement of the roles midwives can play in helping
rural women give birth at home and formal recognition from state and
federal governments.
Midwives are unable to list as medical providers under Medicare or
use insurance schemes available to other health professionals.
"The main focus is on bringing birth back home to local
communities," midwife and conference spokeswoman Tina Pettigrew of
Geelong said.
"We've had 50 per cent closure of local maternity wards across the
country in the past 10 years, based on economics rather than on the
right decisions for women."
Frequency of roadside births had increased as women found themselves
forced to travel further to medical centres, she said.
Organisers expected 100 people to attend the conference but have
shifted venues to the Mercure Hotel after an avalanche of
registrations from across Australia.
:-)
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