| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1051 | Barbara Gillick | |
| 1052 | Abigail Reagan LM | |
| 1053 | Anonymous | |
| 1054 | Ina Doyle | |
| 1055 | Susan Lynch | |
| 1056 | Catherine Vaughan Burke | I had my (first) baby, Grace, at home in Tuam Jan 2007. It was a wonderful straightforward empowering experience. I was treated very badly by the consultant at my (only) ante-natal appointment with him as a direct result of my choice to pursue a home birth, as if it some how ggave him permission to be-little me. I transferred to the midwives clinic after that, and they were much more supportive. My independant midwife was excellent, and I received a far higher standard of pre, peri and post natal care from her, up to 6 weeks after the birth, than any woman would ever receive from a hospital based birth. I has no birth injuries despite pushing for nearly 2 hrs, grace had perfect apgar scores and latched on immediately, and I am still breastfeeding her now, over a year later. I believe this is the model of midwifery we should be seeking to emulate, certainly it falls in line with WHO guidelines! I dread to think how the outcome would have differed had I submitted to the bullying I received at the hands of the consultant. I wonder has he ever seen a truly physiological birth, nrmal is as normal does. CV |
| 1057 | Michael Kinsella | |
| 1058 | Anonymous | |
| 1059 | Caz Jeffreys | Local childbirth facilities and midwifes are essential to the wellbeing of communities. So too is the right for a woman to have her baby at home with professional care. |
| 1060 | Geraldine Cahill | WE do not want a reduction in choice for women, please leave the insurance in place. |
| 1061 | Geraldine Baldwin Cahill | |
| 1062 | Anonymous | |
| 1063 | Una Parker | |
| 1064 | Emily Campbell Jones | It is a disgrace we are not permitting women to have a choice in how they birth their babies. These midwives are not only autonomous practitioners with as much right to practise as your average dentist but they are providing a sevice which is very much needed and wanted by a huge spectrum of women. Also our maternity hospitals are working at full capacity as is causing much more of a likelyhood that women will not get the attention they need resulting in further accidents or things being overlooked, which in turn will raise the number of claims for malpractise in the hospital setting. As a student midwife in the rotunda hospital I have seen the stresses and strains of hospitalised birthing where a normal birth is turned into a medical event to be fiddled with and i assure you i will have an independant midwife for my own next deliveries. |
| 1065 | Anonymous | Independant midwives are the true unsung heroes |
| 1066 | danielle mitchell | |
| 1067 | M Fleming | |
| 1068 | Susanne Odberger Kelly | |
| 1069 | montserrat hernandez | |
| 1070 | ainhoa campo | |
| 1071 | Emily Durtnall | |
| 1072 | maria o sullivan | |
| 1073 | Helen Swierszcz | |
| 1074 | Anonymous | I as a Midwife feel that midwives need to be protected with insurance whilst practicing independently. It is important for us to have support of the INO on this and important for our patients. |
| 1075 | Izaskun Azueta | I think it's not acceptable at all that home-midwives are either left out of the equation or forced to be practicing under very risky conditions for them.
This is obviuosly gonna be reflected in the capacity of so many women to freely decide to have their babies at home if they wish so.
This is just bizarre to say the least, and definitely, a decision that doesn't belong to this century but maybe to the dark middle ages... |
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| 1077 | Helen Swierszcz | |
| 1078 | Eileen Quaid | Refusing to reinstate malpractise insurance for independant midwives translates into infringment on a mothers right to choose how her child is born. Reinistate it please, this is a democratic country...or at least its supposed to be. |
| 1079 | Terri Fitzpatrick | The right to have hombirths must not be taken away from the women of Ireland. It is a womans right to have her baby delivered at home by an independent midwive, and this must not come to an end. |
| 1080 | Terri Fitzpatrick | The right to have hombirths must not be taken away from the women of Ireland. It is a womans right to have her baby delivered at home by an independent midwive, and this must not come to an end. |
| 1081 | mindi cotton | It is vital that independent midwives continue to be able to practice and offer the excellent care and choices they offer to women. Low staffing levels and not taking full responsibility leads to spiraling litigation costs in hospitals. Independent midwives offer an alternative to this system . I have had 2 babies with independent midwives, and I would not want to go to hospital, or acept the poor quality homebirth service in my area. Insurance provision must be found. I find it very disappointing that the INO can find the wisdom in supporting Independent Midwifery. |
| 1082 | jenny Patterson |
| 1083 | Nina Girling | THERE SHOULD BE MORE INDEPENDANT midwifery.Bring back the insurance. |
| 1084 | nuala ni ghabhann | |
| 1085 | Carol McGowan | Women have a fundamental right to give birth in a family homely environment. The more comfortable the mother to be is the more likely the labour will be faciliated as nature intended. Birth is not a pathology but a natural course of life. The proliferation of professionals in the medical model does not serve the majority of women who are healthy. With a social model of birth delivery the woman can be given every chance to birth her new baby into a world without drugs or trauma.
Best wishes |