| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1 | Jene Kelly | |
| 2 | Breda Kerans | I think this is a shocking abuse of Irish women. It basically prevents choice for Irish women. The vast majority of Irish women have no choice of homebirth services provided by their local hospital and depend totally on independent midwives to secure the birth choice they want. This is bullying in its worst form. Shame on the INO. I no longer support their industrial action. It is obvious from this action that patients do not matter to them. |
| 3 | jessica burke | |
| 4 | Majella Moynihan | |
| 5 | Claire Donovan | |
| 6 | Jean Peters | |
| 7 | Emer McGann | I think women should be facilitated in having an Independent Midwife if the choose and how can this happen if they are priced out of the market by high insurance, it is crazy. |
| 8 | Louise | This is a disgraceful decision by the INO, showing total disregard for independant midwives and the women they provide services to. |
| 9 | Colette Meade | |
| 10 | Belinda Donohoe | |
| 11 | Anonymous | women have a right to have an independent midwife and a right to choice |
| 12 | Tracy Donegan | |
| 13 | Margaret Carroll | |
| 14 | Larissa Inns | Choices for women!! |
| 15 | Ronnie Falcao | Homebirth is an important option for birthing women in Ireland. If no commercial insurance agency will provide malpractice insurance, then the federal government should ensure it's availability. |
| 16 | Susan Cudlipp | Independant midwives are vital to the preservation of birthing choices for women. To deny them insurance is unfair, unethical and extremely short-sighted. Midwives are the most appropriate care provider for the majority of healthy pregnant women. It is only when women lose midwifery care that they, and their governments realise what a priceless service midwives provide. Look at what has happened in Brazil since the loss of midwives - a 90% caesarian rate and health costs blown out of all proportion! Don't let this happen in Ireland |
| 17 | Anonymous | |
| 18 | Keira McCormack | |
| 19 | Una Thompson | |
| 20 | Britta Boyle | |
| 21 | Anonymous | |
| 22 | Belinda Jane Gleeson | Please keep birthing with the women in their own environment, increased medicalisation leads to increased intervention, complications, PND and increased morbidity and mortality. |
| 23 | Sharon Craig | |
| 24 | CLIFFORD | |
| 25 | elke heckel | It is a woman's right to give birth at home - government has a duty to provide competent care - who better than an indepependent midwife. I am shocked how little notice there has been given - pregnancy lasts 9 months!!!! |
| 26 | amira abuseif | |
| 27 | Anonymous | THE REMOVAL OF INSURANCE COVER AT THIS TIME IS SYMBOLIC. ONE HAS TO ASK WHAT ARE MIDWIVES GAINING FROM THE UNION, NO NAME, NO COVER?? |
| 28 | Samantha Holman | Independent Midwives offer an important choice for women and should not be prevented from working through lack of insurance. |
| 29 | Dr Joan Lalor | it is vital that choice is facilitated and not hindered for women accessing maternity services in Ireland. Removing insurance from midwives in this context is a retrograde step. |
| 30 | Carrie-Anne Gibb | |
| 31 | Deborah Purdue | THe INO should perhaps consider working with IMA (independent midwives association in UK, and the Royal college of Midwives in the UK. Other midwife organisations in Europe who have this cover and even the NZ midwives also, should perhaps be working together to try and find a solution for IMs. In Germany I believe that homebirth midwives pay LESS as the 'risk' to these mothers is considered less than in hospital! |
| 32 | Elizabeth Halliday | |
| 33 | Helen Marlow Robinson | It is a woman's right to deliver her baby where she feels safest and in the overall scheme of things this is a much safer place (provided that there are no obvious and special circumstances) for a birth to take place. A woman's body naturally knows how to receive her baby so stop medicalised birth and atrying to shift the 'power base' . This is the woman's domain. In terms of health economics it also makes much more sense and lets doctors concentrate their efforts where they are truly required. |
| 34 | Norma Gillett | |
| 35 | Andrea Bilcliff | |
| 36 | Helen Marlow Robinson | It is a woman's right to deliver her baby where she feels safest and in the overall scheme of things this is a much safer place (provided that there are no obvious and special circumstances) for a birth to take place. A woman's body naturally knows how to receive her baby so stop medicalised birth and atrying to shift the 'power base' . This is the woman's domain. In terms of health economics it also makes much more sense and lets doctors concentrate their efforts where they are truly required. |
| 37 | Caroline Curley | |
| 38 | Sandra Oliveira | |
| 39 | Joanna Reid | |
| 40 | Anonymous | |
| 41 | maria o sullivan | |
| 42 | Cassy McNamara | As a Scottish independent Midwife who has worked with no insurance for the past 4 years I understand your concerns. Here in the UK we are also now under threat as the Government plan to make having insurance compulsory-this means that the approx 200 independent midwives in the Uk and the average 4000 women a year who use our services will also be outlawed. There seems to be a global attempt to outlaw midwives as a way of controlling women-we must stick together and fight this. Best wishes and keep going we have to believe we can win!! |
| 43 | mia scotland | this is a dangerous move - there will be an increase in unassisted home births, because mums will have no choice (other than medical institutions). Don't take away a mum's choice. |
| 44 | Mary Tighe | Having had a homebirth last year with an Independent midwife I would recommend it to anyone wanting to give birth in a stress-free, enjoyable and powerful way. I want the choice to be able to do this again with my next child and am horrified that this may be at risk. |
| 45 | lea ising | |
| 46 | Ann Curley | |
| 47 | Lorraine Carroll | |
| 48 | Janet Fraser | The midwifery model of care is the only one suitable for healthy pregnant women and governments must do all they can to maintain it. The ripple effect of unnecessary dangerous obstetric care causes a great deal of hardship to the community and massive costs to health budgets. Women deserve the world standard of care - midwifery for all! |
| 49 | Dr Jo Murphy-Lawless | Dear David,
If this issue comes under your bailiwick, I think that it is critical that you and other INO nurses are aware that this decision flies in the face of the research evidence on home births and the role of the independent midwife. Far from protecting the INO from possible opprobrium, this move will bring your organisation into disrepute and will most certainly contribute to women’s decisions to give birth alone and unaided by any midwife at all. |
| 50 | Dr Jo Murphy-Lawless | Dear David,
If this issue comes under your bailiwick, I think that it is critical that you and other INO nurses are aware that this decision flies in the face of the research evidence on home births and the role of the independent midwife. Far from protecting the INO from possible opprobrium, this move will bring your organisation into disrepute and will most certainly contribute to women’s decisions to give birth alone and unaided by any midwife at all. |