20th June 2010 | 10 Comments
I support a lot of women to find their way through personal and political gunk and reach a point where they can birth their babies in nice simple births.As the end of pregnancy draws near I encourage women to start thinking about how they’re going to manage the early stages of the new breastfeeding relationship [...]
Tags: babywearing, breastfeeding, cosleeping
Filed under: consumers, feminism, homebirth, parenting, surgical monopoly
17th May 2010 | 3 Comments
The “Quality and Safety Framework” has been released. For something supposedly produced after hours of consultation and furrowed brows crouched over our hot submissions, it looks remarkably like all the other dross produced by the government and fellow travellers around this issue. Screw women, screw midwives, tell everyone a lot of bullshit, ahhh job well [...]
Filed under: consumers, consumers' rights, feminism, homebirth, homebirth campaign, midwives, midwifery, reproductive justice
27th April 2010 | 0 Comments
While under no illusions whatsoever that submitting anything for consumers has anything to do with the process to dismantle homebirth, I still have to do it. We are still here, and we’re not going anywhere. This week’s treat is the new “framework” for “eligible” midwives even though as yet there’s no information on what exactly [...]
Filed under: Uncategorised, careproviders, consumers, consumers' rights, feminism, homebirth, homebirth campaign, midwives, midwifery, reproductive justice
19th April 2010 | 0 Comments
In a nicely Orwellian turn of phrase where we’re assured that our choices are being expanded, the government deigned to share some of their maternity “care” plans with us. Finally. The AMA’s choices are sure being expanded but those of birthing women have been reduced to “When? How high?”. Luckily for me, Lisa Barrett has [...]
Tags: birth in Australia, human rights, reproductive freedom
Filed under: bullshit, consumers' rights, feminism, homebirth, homebirth campaign, reproductive justice, surgical monopoly
15th March 2010 | 0 Comments
15th March 2010 | 0 Comments
Meet Emily Burns, PhD student at the University of Western Sydney’s Centre for Cultural Research. Looks like a great thesis in the making and sorely needed! Good luck, Emily! This post is to ask if anyone here would be willing to participate in my PhD project on home birth and free birth experiences in Australia. [...]
Tags: birth attendants, freebirth, homebirth, research
Filed under: homebirth, just for fun, who homebirths?
15th March 2010 | 2 Comments
The Risks of Cesarean Section A Coalition for Improving Maternity Services Fact Sheet © 2010 Coalition for Improving Maternity Services. Permission granted to freely reproduce with attribution. 1500 Sunday Dr Ste 102, Raleigh, NC 27607 | Tel: 919-863-9482 | www.motherfriendly.org Cesarean section is the most common major surgical procedure performed in the United States. The [...]
Tags: caesarean, commentary that bites, homebirth after previous caesarean, human rights, lies we tell to women, misinformation campaign
Filed under: careproviders, consumers, consumers' rights, homebirth, midwives, midwifery, reproductive justice
16th January 2010 | 0 Comments
Not content with wheeling out the already discredited Pang and Bastian “studies”, the AMA has now wheeled out a synopsis for a study of homebirth that rather misses the points of the information they actually found in the study. Check out Lisa Barrett’s blog and Hoyden About Town for a full breakdown. I also look [...]
Tags: lies we tell to women, misinformation campaign
Filed under: bullshit, consumers' rights, homebirth, surgical discourse, surgical monopoly
24th November 2009 | 0 Comments
I’ve been away in Adelaide attending the JB annual festival gathering. What a hoot! From henna and placenta talk to circus acts with participation, great food, wonderful women, lovely families, a chance to reconnect with other homebirthers working through what it’s like to be facing potential criminalisation, well it was just beautiful! I look forward [...]
Filed under: homebirth, homebirth campaign, just for fun
2nd November 2009 | 2 Comments
Who homebirths? Welcome to a new series of entries. A series of activism, humour, love and community. This is a series for those who have birthed at home, those who would like to, those who support homebirthing women and anyone with a love of family and community. It is a safe place for women who [...]
Filed under: consumers, consumers' rights, homebirth, midwives, midwifery, who homebirths?
