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?

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) [...]

Tags: Australia, first time homebirther, freebirth
Filed under: who homebirths?

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 [...]

Tags: Australia, freebirth, subsequent babies homebirthed
Filed under: who homebirths?

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 for [...]

Tags: freebirth
Filed under: careproviders, consumers, consumers' rights, feminism, homebirth campaign, midwives, midwifery