Do you want to be able to choose a Midwife?
Since the election of the Rudd government in Australia in November 2007, the move to national registration of health professionals has picked up pace. It now looks certain that the new national registration scheme for health professionals, including midwives, will commence on 1 July 2010.
The move to national registration for all health professionals is a major reform process.
The national registration scheme will require health professionals to have professional indemnity insurance.
For midwives who are self employed it will not be possible to meet this requirement unless access to indemnity is restored before 1 July 2010.
I wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I recently signed:
"Save Private Midwifery and homebirth choices"
I really think this is an important cause, and I'd like to encourage you to add your signature too. It's free and takes less than a minute of your time.
If this isn't stopped, independent midwifery may possibly be illegal in Australia by July 2010.
This is about CHOICE.
You may not wish to use a midwife right now, but if they are not able to practice because they cannot get professional indemnity insurance, you will will not be able to make a choice.
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Decision Making for Home Birth
Decisions! Decisions! Decisions! There is so much to think about. With EVERY step along the way there are decisions to be made. Choices to be explored. Research to be examined.
Keep in mind there are pros and cons with EVERY choice along the way. The main thing for you to do is explore your options and then weigh up the risks and the benefits of your choices, with reference to your own family needs and values and that which you believe is best for you and your baby. A great acronym to remember is BRAN - Benefits, Risks, Alternatives and Nothing. In other words: what are the benefits of doing this, what are the risks of doing this, are there any alternatives to this choice and what happens if we do nothing at all.
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The physiological reference
During labour the fetus must suddenly adapt to dramatic alterations of its environment. It must protect itself, in particular via the release of hormones such as noradrenaline and endorphins. Long before the industrialisation of childbirth, all cultures have disturbed the birth process and therefore the in-labour intrauterine environment, even if only through beliefs and rituals. This is why we must first refer to the physiological perspective. Physiologists look at what is universal and cross-cultural. They offer a sort of reference point. Then the effects of the most common deviations from the physiological reference will be more easily interpreted.
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What would happen if women were taught to enjoy birth rather than endure it?
In answering that question, Orgasmic Birth poses the ultimate challenge to our cultural myths.
Filmmaker Debra Pascali-Bonaro reveals a revolutionary approach to birth that is statistically safer and healthier for both mother and child than the birthing and delivery methods that are standard in many parts of the world today.
Follow this link to see what it should be like. www.orgasmicbirth.com
"The International Medical Veritas Association is very alarmed at the attitudes, practices and trends regarding childbirth in our world today Increasingly we see that traditional MD’s practicing obstetrics and gynecology are promoting the delivery of children by cesarean section and for the sake of convenience rather than for true medical need."
Read more on www.imva.info/childbirth.shtml
Read this enlightening article on the state of modern birthing from Midwifery and Infant Care (MIDIRS) Midwifery Digest
Our Mission is to speak of birth... from the heart, to the heart… to inspire, to share, to support...birth-givers and birth-workers in the commitment to keeping birth simple whenever possible and honouring women and babies no matter what ....
To light the way to better birth.
Our Vision is of a better world... www.birthfire.com
All Dads to be are nervous or at least skeptical when their wife/partner first mentions the idea of having a home birth.
A collection of easy childbirth video clips.
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