| # | Name | Comments |
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| 51 | Jacqui Tomkins | The withdrawl of choice for women and midwives to the place and type of birth that they can experience is an impingement on their human rights. Shame on you INO! |
| 52 | Heidi Jones | Women need midwives, please don't do this!!! |
| 53 | Anonymous | This threat to independent midwives shows a complete lack of solidarity. |
| 54 | Kathryn Jones | |
| 55 | Louise Wilby | As an IM in England facing inabltity to practice without PII, I join with you to prevent this worldwide problem inpacting on safety and choice for women |
| 56 | Ruth McManus | |
| 57 | Anne Phelan | |
| 58 | Olivia Boyle | ALL Midwives deserve recognition and support in the valuable work that they do. Under U.S. independent midwife Ina May Gaskin & her team 2028 homebirths took place between 1970-2000.
95.1% of clients gave birth at home, with a neonatal mortality rate of 8/2028, a maternal mortality rate of 0 and a caesarian section rate of 1.4%. If I were in the insurance game I'd rather hedge my bets on independent midwives than large hospital obstetric units. |
| 59 | Melissah Marr | |
| 60 | Gail Bovenizer | |
| 61 | Maria Robertson | The women of Ireland deserve the right the choose where they should give birth. This right is not something that can just be taken away from them. The future of homebirthing should be something that is secued not put in jeopardy. Every woman deserves the right to choose. |
| 62 | Melissa Fox | |
| 63 | Luan mc cormack | |
| 64 | Denise Hynd | I am so disappointed in the lack of support for women's safe choice of homebirth and the midwives who faclitiate this practice safely, by the Irish Nurses Organisation in withdrawing insurance cover for them! |
| 65 | Bron Warner | homebirth is the safest way to deliver! some common sense please!! |
| 66 | virginia howes RN RM | for goodness sake!! are we really wanting to make things even worse for women than they already are. Stop this stupid stupid persecution of midwives and women. Home birth should be supported on every front including insurrance issues. Governments should be moving hell and high to promote it not allow it to be shoved to the bottom of the pile. |
| 67 | diane carnell | |
| 68 | Laura Abbott | This is another blow for women`s choice.. Good luck with your campaign |
| 69 | Jenny Gamble | Insure midwives - save homebirth option |
| 70 | Brenda van der Kooy | |
| 71 | Meg Miskin-Garside | Women must have the right to choose |
| 72 | mim hanan | we need choice in childbirth in ireland and i am concerned that if indepenant midwives are gone the women who are afraid of the hospital's over management of labour, lack of individualism, lack of continuity of care and interference with nature will take extreme measures and plan their own undisturbed unassisted births. |
| 73 | Rosemary McBride | |
| 74 | Paul McBride | |
| 75 | Karen Hill | By this action the INO are not supporting midwives and are becoming like the HSE. |
| 76 | Marie Moore | Taking a very valuable & much wanted service from irish families |
| 77 | J Sheridan | |
| 78 | Lynn G Walcott | |
| 79 | Anonymous | A natural birth in her own home should be every woman's right. This move takes us right back to the Dark Ages. |
| 80 | Sinéad Corcoran | |
| 81 | Anonymous | |
| 82 | Terri Bate | I'm a midwife in Devon, UK - we have one of the highest homebirth rates in the country - and it is one of the most satisfying parts of my practice. Good luck to my Irish colleagues. |
| 83 | Judy Chapman | What a devastating blow for the women of Ireland. To have their choice on a chance of a normal physiological birth taken away at the stroke of a pen and for why? There is no evidence to show that independant midwives have worse results than Drs. In face the opposite is the truth, more women will birth heathier babies at home than in hospital. |
| 84 | Declan Devane | |
| 85 | Louisa Crowley | women should have a choice in childbirth |
| 86 | Amber Thatcher | |
| 87 | Nicky Grace | |
| 88 | Anonymous | Midwifery is a very important and economically practical service for birthing and reproductive support. The savings in insurance costs ought to be enough to make midwifery a better option for insurance than medical obstetrics.
Thank you. |
| 89 | Emma Walls | This effectively removes my choice to deliver at home. The health board will not provide a midwife, or a grant. Like the majority of women in this country, I don't live within the catchment area for any hospital's domino or home birth scheme. |
| 90 | Elaine Batchelor | Women need the chance to have a skilled and experienced midwife who can practice autonomously. It is essential that all midwives independent or state employed must have insurance both for the women they care for and themselves. Dont lose this valuable and importnat group of professionals. |
| 91 | Frances Hodgson | |
| 92 | Melissa Quinn Coyne | Home birth is proven to be as safe or safer than hospital birth for healthy women and their babies. The INO should be promoting it in every way they can, and this includes supporting midwives offering homebirth care. |
| 93 | Marsden Wagner M.D. | Home birth must always be there for women who choose it. |
| 94 | Maurning Mayzes | |
| 95 | Karen Oscroft | It is simple, Women deserve the right to birth how, where and with whom they request! If a midwife at home is there request, then they should be supported. |
| 96 | Gaye Demanuele | keep birth a healthy normal life event |
| 97 | Kara O'Loughlin | I think the withdrawal of insurance cover for independant midwives is apalling in a time when women and midwives are working together to support birth choices in ireland, it is indicative of the INO'S complete lack of regard for their midwives and maternity choices in Ireland. |
| 98 | Cliona Mc Loughlin | |
| 99 | sam cromie | |
| 100 | Gillian Daley | As a midwife in the states I am saddened to hear that our colleagues in Ireland are having similar issues with protecting homebirth. |