It's been all quiet on the northern front hence my lack of posting. Actually it's not entirely quiet as this post is primarily to advertise the work that has been going on. Up here in the Northern Rivers, an action group has been formed which is lobbying and promoting the need for birth choices. There are obvious items on the agenda such as medicare funded home-birth, water birth options, one on one continuous midwife care through pregnancy and the list goes on. The hospitals in the area (and I doubt they are alone) are over worked in the maternity department with some mothers being asked to leave hospital less than half a day after giving birth to make way for the next. If homebirth became accessible to all the mothers who wanted them it would ease the pressure of the hospitals a little. Anyway, we are staging a community forum where anyone interested can air their opinion to a selected panel of people from the community or from outside who have models of care that we hope we can emmulate. Here are the details for anyone who is local and interested! You don't have to be a health care practitioner to attend - this is for the consumers so the more the better. Big bellys and babies especially!
BIRTH CHOICES community forum
MAY 11th 2007 at 10am
SOUTHERN CROSS UNI - Lecture HALL H101 (LISMORE)
Free admission
Babies and toddlers welcome
OH! I also saw a video of a triplet home waterbirth which was utterly amazing. I have never heard of that being 'allowed' before and all went beautifully.
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Great work.
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