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Name: Denise Hynd on Mar 10, 2009Comments: Please let me be able to practice midwifery back home in OZ as can I in NZ!Flag
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Name: Lynne Staff on Mar 10, 2009Comments: It is the right of women to choose to birth their baby at home - support that right! It is the right of midwives to choose to support women to birth at home - support that right!Flag
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Name: Stephen John Flint on Mar 10, 2009Comments: Mid wifes should be the FIRST consideration in birthing of childrenFlag
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Name: Narelle Johnson on Mar 10, 2009Comments: This is a human rights issue! Taking away home birth as an option for birthing woman, is taking away choices, taking away our rights!Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 10, 2009Comments: Please allow mothers the choice of how and where they wish to birth. Homebirthing is safe and very empowering.Flag
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Name: Mikel Spargo on Mar 10, 2009Comments: We live in a country that values democracy and the freedom of choice. this is a disgrace to literally try to stop homebirths. My wife and I have four children, one in a private hopsital, the whole experience and care was an absolute disgrace. Our next two children were born in a public hospital and my wife went through the midwives clinic, much better experiences and our last child was the choice to have a homebirth. this was by far the best birthing experience even though the baby was a whopping 10lb 14oz. We had a midwife in attendance and a doula. The people who sit in positions of descision making need to really research the facts on homebirth and listen to the choices that women want. this descision is not motivated by interest in the mother, her wishes or the safety of the child. It is motivated by greed, money and the desire to standardise everything to make things easier to monitor. Homebirths are not going to go away because women have brains and realise how important it is to have as supportive and safe birth as possible. The mafority of women who choose a homebirth do so from a huge point of information. I suggest that the politicians who are trying to make midwifery illegal actually research how wonderful homebirths are and how benificial they are for both mother and baby. We liv e in an era of high intervention which is causing more problems than ever which result in dimished health of the new child. Homebirths are the only way women and children can be safe from this unnecessary intervention and make our future generation a stronger one.Flag
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Name: Skye Auer on Mar 10, 2009Comments: Please, please review this move that certainly contravenes the basic right of women to bodily autonomy and can only serve to endanger women by driving homebirth underground.Flag
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Name: Julie Clarke on Mar 10, 2009Comments: Australian woman deserve better than is currently available... in such a wealthy country a range of choices such as New Zealand women have should automatically be adapted here too.... not the continuation of an unbalanced, medically dominated, biased system which does not support midwives to practice their art for the full benefit of woman and babies.Flag
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Name: Debbie Mukhar on Mar 10, 2009Comments: I am a mother of 4. My first sons birth in hospital is best described as abuse. While pregnant with my second, midwives lost indemnity insurance and my midwife stopped attending homebirths. With my forth, I moved to for the birth so I could have a homebirth eventhough It was not at my home. It was such a positive experience. I wish all of the births of my children could have been like that.Flag
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Name: Jo Barker on Mar 10, 2009Comments: Nicola, you said tonight you wanted to ensure women-centred choice in maternity care. How can I choose to birth my children in the safety and privacy of my own home, if the govt fails to ensure independent midwives have access to professional indemnity insurance. Not ensuring this means my husband and I no longer have the choice of birthing we desire for our family. Failing to ensure this means you are failing me and my family and striping us of our choices.Flag
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Name: Lauren Carter on Mar 10, 2009Comments: As a mother of two daughters, one who was birthed at home attended by a midwife in private practice, I would be deeply saddened and angry if the option to birth at home was not available to them.Flag
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Name: Julie Bell on Mar 10, 2009Comments: We have rebates for water tanks and solar panels. In Ireland, the Govt gives an 800 pound rebate for homebirths. We need that here.Flag
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Name: Elizabeth Williamson on Mar 10, 2009Comments: If women are to be allowed genuine choice in birthing options, then midwives in private practice should receive exactly the same insurance benefits as other birthing professionals. To exempt midwives alone is discriminatory, and based on propaganda rather than reflecting evidence-based models of care.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 10, 2009Comments: as the mother of 2 children 1 who is birthed at home i am devastated angry and scared for a future where anyone tells us that one of the safest ways to birth is illegal, i fear for our daughters and our sonsFlag
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Name: Regan on Mar 10, 2009Comments: Pushing homebirth underground is only going to increase the numbers of freebirths.Flag
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