| # | Name | Comments |
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| 101 | Kris | |
| 102 | Anonymous | |
| 103 | helen geraghty | |
| 104 | Marie Tyndall | The right to give birth in the place where the birthing woman chooses accompanied by the companions of her choice is a basic human right. You can´t make it prohibited! |
| 105 | Clare Keenan | Please reinstate malpractice insurance for the hardworking Irish Independent Midwives.
Clare Keenan |
| 106 | Eithne Murray | The availability of homebirth shows a recognition that birth is a normal part of life rather than a medical emergency. To dent homebirth is to deny women the opportunity of experiencing birth in its most positive experience - birth belongs tothe family not to the health professionals. I find it difficult to understand the reasoning of the INO behind this decision. Is it the cost of the insurance or is it a stand on the politics of birthing women, who are currently pawns in this situation.
Ireland has a log and ignominious history of playing down the role of the birthing mother; we give birth in the hands of our "Masters" - of the Coombe, Holles St, etc. Is this decision part of the "Master" philosophy? |
| 107 | Eithne Murray | The availability of homebirth shows a recognition that birth is a normal part of life rather than a medical emergency. To dent homebirth is to deny women the opportunity of experiencing birth in its most positive experience - birth belongs tothe family not to the health professionals. I find it difficult to understand the reasoning of the INO behind this decision. Is it the cost of the insurance or is it a stand on the politics of birthing women, who are currently pawns in this situation.
Ireland has a log and ignominious history of playing down the role of the birthing mother; we give birth in the hands of our "Masters" - of the Coombe, Holles St, etc. Is this decision part of the "Master" philosophy? |
| 108 | Zwart | Unbelieveble!!! This realy calls for European Action!!
Every where outsite the Netherlansds it is so hard to get a malpractice insurance for midwives.
It is a human right to give birth outsite a hospital setting and a midwifery right to practice as a liberal midwife outsite hospital setting.
How to have these rights for mothers and midwives
inplemented??? |
| 109 | Anonymous | Independent midwives are an invaluable asset to the women of Ireland. |
| 110 | Denise Garde | |
| 111 | Meg Stadnik | |
| 112 | Jennifer Williams+ | |
| 113 | grainne fallon | disgrace its hard enough as it is . |
| 114 | Kathleen Fallon Pasakarnis | |
| 115 | Anonymous | I think by doing this women are being told where they can and can't have there babies it is there choice. |
| 116 | Anonymous | |
| 117 | Marguerite Hannan | The National Domiciliary Birth Group made a report about Home Birth.
This report found that H.B. is SAFE for low risk women in Ireland (-85% of women says the World Health Organisation) this report recommended that... WOMEN SHOULD HAVE CHOICE OF HOME BIRTH and other Maternity Services.
It also recommended the setting up of MLU's in ALL Maternity Hospitals, and that ALL Women should have continuity of care amongst other things.
This report was accepted in Spring '05' by the HSE as a "Dynamic Working Documment"
Midwife Led Care SAVES money, reduces C-sections,promotes Breast feeding and increases Job satisfaction for OUR Midwives of this Country.
MIDWIVES ARE THE EXPERTS IN HEALTHY PREGNANCY AND BIRTH, NOT OBSTETRICIANS.
GIVE THEM AUTONOMY
GIVE THEM A UNION THAT SUPPORTS THEM
GIVE THEM BACK INSURANCE NOW
SHAME ON YOU LIAM DORAN.
M. Hannan, The Home Birth Assoc of Ire. |
| 118 | Sally Randle | |
| 119 | Odette Abououf | |
| 120 | Debra Pascali-Bonaro | Having choice for women of where, how and with whom they give birth is a fundamental human right.
Please protect this option for women in Ireland, leading the way to optimal MotherBaby Care. |
| 121 | Jennifer Houston | I have always admired Irelands maternity care as it's tried to mainatain humain birth and not give into overuse of technology and institutional birth. Please continue to make home birth viable for midwives and families that desire that. |
| 122 | fiona grey | |
| 123 | kerry taylor | It is essential that homebirth with a qualified midiwfe remains an option for women. |
| 124 | Louise Crouch | |
| 125 | Rachel Holley | |
| 126 | Anonymous | |
| 127 | `margaret Dunlea | the INO needs to support midwives who support women in their choice of childbirth. It is imperative for the future of homebirth in Ireland that the INO reinstate malpractice insurance cover for independent midwives in Ireland. |
| 128 | Eleanor May-Johnson | As a fellow independent midwife in the UK, I am dismayed that the INO has decided to stop insurance cover for Independent Midwives. Women will lose a valuable choice as to who cares for them in labour. |
| 129 | Janet Haynes | |
| 130 | Kathy Deol | This is a travesty for all women. |
| 131 | charmaine campbell | As a Registered Nurse in Canada I am horrified that this insurance is to be terminated. As nurses we all have to support women in giving birth naturally as nature intended. Midwives are the best way to do this- birth is not a medical incident. Women's bodies know how to grow and birth babies. |
| 132 | colm OBoyle | Letter submitted to editor of Irish Times - may or may not be published
The INO Executive has, without consultation with its midwifery membership, announced its intention to withdraw indemnity insurance cover for independent community midwives. This will have serious consequences for Irish women’s choices about how and where to birth. A few hospitals and HSE areas with vision, do provide home birth as a choice, but the DoH&C and HSE have consistently failed to provide or support homebirth nationally.
Independent midwives provide home birth services to most of the 250 – 300 women annually who chose to have their babies in the security and comfort of their own home. There are however fewer than 20 independent midwives in Ireland so it is next to impossible for women in most counties to access their services. The Home Birth Association has consistently said that demand for home birth exceeds supply and it is that fact which keeps home birth levels so low in Ireland.
No amount of money can compensate the loss or injury of a baby or mother, whether fault can be ascribed or not, but withdrawal of indemnity cover for home birth further erodes confidence in home birth and isolates the midwives supporting it.
In 2004, the HSE domiciliary births report, recommended that home birth services be properly structured. No action has since been taken on this which is disappointing. I would hope that the INO could be pressed to maintain cover for home birth but the DoH&C and the HSE must be exhorted immediately to implement a national support structure for home birth in Ireland. |
| 133 | Eileen Gormley | All my babies were born too fast to get to hospital. Without a planned homebirth and an excellent midwife, I'd have been giving birth without any medical assistance. That's not an improvement |
| 134 | Greg Sheaf | |
| 135 | Anonymous | |
| 136 | Aoife Cooke | |
| 137 | Anne Gill | This is scandalous. Women need choice in birthing. Independent Midwives need support and we need more of them. I teach antenatal classes to couples and also work with mothers and babies if there has been birth trauma. We need a complete rethink in the provision of our maternity services so that the real needs of parents and babies can be provided for in a more holistic way. |
| 138 | Louise Gallagher | |
| 139 | Stephen Buck | |
| 140 | kathy cleere | Don't take away true midwifery care for those who are lucky enough to have it. |
| 141 | Anonymous | |
| 142 | Michelle Heavey | |
| 143 | Seamus Kerans | |
| 144 | Joleen Streit | |
| 145 | Wendy | Please don't cancel malpractice insurance for homebirth midwives. Home birth is just as safe as hospital births if not more so. |
| 146 | Anonymous | This is exactly what the Royal College of Midwives did to Independent Midwives in UK several years ago. It caused a crisis in the independent sector which had just begun to be recognised as a good role model for NHS midwives to follow (one-to-one style of care). I urge the INO to retain malpractice insurance for IMs in Ireland. |
| 147 | sherelee mould | |
| 148 | Paul Cannon | As a proud father of 2 Home Birthed children,I am outragged at the under handed tactics of the HSE to blatantly deny a Human and CONSTITUTIONAL right for Women and Families to avail of Birth at Home.
In these days that Home Birth is being recognised in ALL studies as SAFE and promoted as optimal care in Midwivery training. The INO have done what only can be described a Step backwards. Home Birth service users are thoroughly satisfied, apart from the very obvious and discriminatory under provision of a very disireable choice.
A Home Birth environment is the only place that Midwives of this Country can pratice their skills as they were trained to do.
The INO is a disgrace to its members allowing this to proceed.
As a tax payer I demand a reply with explanation to why this has come about.
P.Cannon, 30 Cushla Downs, Athlone |
| 149 | Claire Webb | |
| 150 | Valerie Gommon | I am an independent midwife in England facing the same issues - do they really want to lose more midwives? |