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Sarah’s first baby was homebirthed with doulas and her partner attending
I live in Melbourne, Australia. I have a bachelor of arts, with honours in political science. I’m a white, married, heterosexual. I am the mother of one homeborn daughter. She was born shortly after my 25th birthday, in the presence of her father and two doulas. Her siblings (of which we hope to have four) [...]
Samantha has birthed at home twice
I live in Sydney, Australia.
I am Anglo.
I have a partner.
I am the first person in my family that I know of who has homebirthed.
I work from home so I can be a SAHM.
I have had three normal (textbook) births when I was:
- 27yo (hospital birth),
- 36yo (midwife attended homebirth)
- 40yo (unattended homebirth.)
We didn’t have a [...]
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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