Giving birth! What could be more natural. Women have been doing it for ten’s of thousands of years – without doctors. The only help they had was from other women who had been through it all before – the original midwives.
The Australian government has for some reason taken a dislike to home births and midwives. For a midwife to participate in a home birth, the need to be registered. The governments proposal is that midwives can only be registered if they have indemnity insurance.
Problem – no insurance company is prepared to offer indemnity insurance to midwives participating in home deliveries. No insurance, no registration, no more home births.
What a ridiculous situation. Home births have proven to be very successful in Britain. Rather than making life difficult for midwives, we should be supporting them and encouraging the practice. Furthermore, with only 200 midwives participating in home births, we should be working to increase that number five or six times.
Just think of how much money can be saved by not having to take up hospital beds. Wake up Kevin – think forward not backward – but then, he is a male, perhaps he just doesn’t understand childbirth. But then, I am a male too, but I certainly support home births for those who want it.
I have written a fuller post on home birthing on my parenting site – feel free to visit and comment.
You made some good points there. I agree for the most part.
Same here. I second the motion.
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Home birth is a normal practice but behind that there is also a big risk. I don’t agree with home birth. As a woman giving birth you should think that giving birth is a crucial situation. You’re giving lives to a new one, it should be handle with all care and with expertise.