Category Archives: midwives, midwifery
Breech is just another position
About 4% of babies are in breech positions at term. Of course nowadays the normal course of events is surgery. Is this safe? Realistic? Warranted? Not according to evidence, no.
“Attending births is like growing roses. You have to marvel at the ones that just open up and bloom at the first kiss of the sun, [...]
Joyous Birth’s senate submission Part the Fiftieth
Not content with sharing the lurve of the previous enquiries into who really owns women’s bodies human rights Homebirth in Australia, here is the submission sent today to the next enquiry which I predict will find that women want midwives and to be in charge of their own birth and will result in the AMA’s [...]
Doctors to be in charge of midwives, homebirthing and of course, women
Today there were yet more rallies across Australia to draw attention to the immoral legislation currently before Parliament which seeks to remove women’s human rights and criminalise independent midwifery.
Maternity Coalition have put together a document which explains clearly the changes to the legislation and what they mean. My rage is hard to put into words [...]
Who homebirths? A new series on homebirth.
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 birth [...]
Links in the chain. What’s being written and read in your world?
Please share what you’re reading and writing, I love to have new material for eager readers and learn from all the many groovy blogs out there on the interwebz.
Ilithyia Inspired brings us news of the latest piece of obstetric bullshit to hit the airwaves.
iBirth? iPhone As The Latest Obstetric Intervention
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System (Houston, Texas) [...]
The Great VBAC Rort
VBAC is an endangered species.
This is not really surprising since vaginal births of all kinds are endangered and it only makes sense that having created a birthing monster of cuts and scars, Dr Frankenstein would be unwilling to let the monster go use it’s body in some way that silly old evolution intended.
But surely, I [...]
Consumers are not stakeholders, it would seem, when birth is discussed.
What should I do?
Nothing dear, you’re not qualified.
Welcome to how homebirth will look at your place – if you’re allowed to have one.
Some homebirth advocates (Wingnuts, Bernard, in case you don’t know what an Advocate is) met with the minister and learnt some interesting things. I quote from the report done up by Homebirth Access [...]
Some beautiful birth images and lovely homebirth families!
~ we love homebirth ~
How will you birth after July 2010?
Homebirth Awareness Year 2008
Why be an autonomous consumer of the healthcare system?
In recent years as midwife-assisted homebirth has become more topical in the mainstream press, so too freebirth* or family birth, has also become more widely known. Our culture of control over women means that the shock value of women birthing autonomously is on a par with those women who chained themselves to parliament houses [...]
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