| # | Name | Comments |
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| 151 | Anonymous | |
| 152 | Jo Swett | Keep homebirth an option, it is a woman's body and her right to have a non-intervention birth!!! |
| 153 | Deborah French | |
| 154 | Aoife Corley | |
| 155 | Anonymous | |
| 156 | Renee Weldon | I think it is disgraceful that independant midwives will not be covered to practice that which is at the heart of normal chilbirth. |
| 157 | Siobhan Mc Grath | Woman need to have choice regarding the most important thing that a woman will ever experience. |
| 158 | Kay Hardie | this is an outrage - a blow to choice and control for women and an insult to woman in Ireland. Where will it end - the state controlling where an individual can die next? |
| 159 | Kay Hardie | this is an outrage - a blow to choice and control for women and an insult to woman in Ireland. Where will it end - the state controlling where an individual can die next? |
| 160 | Michelle Barnes | Homebirth is a basic choice that should be available to all women. |
| 161 | Richard Lane | I cant beleive an organisation liek this can treat indepandant midwives like this, it is very sad |
| 162 | Penny Simkin | Home birth is safe (as documented in a large study in 2005), inexpensive and extremely gratifying for a small number of educated conscientious parents. By continuing to support home births, the physiological process of birth is allowed to occur. We need knowledge of the normal unmodified birth process in order to evaluate the impact of hospital procedures and customs on the physical and emotional health of mother, babies, and families. |
| 163 | Helaine Brenner | |
| 164 | Robin Reed | |
| 165 | Courtenay Murray-Grabowski | I'm a citizen of both Ireland and the USA. I much prefer homebirth to a managed hospital birth, and when I heard that Independent Midwives in Ireland, and the safe, reliable, evidence based care that they provide are in danger, it made me very sad. I would hate to have to move to the US to birth my children! Please continue to provide me with the right to have my choice of practitioner! With the wonderful knowledge we HAVE about safety and efficacy of homebirth, it is demoralizing that we are removing that safety from our own people...our most defenseless citizens--our babies! |
| 166 | Anonymous | This ban will set back women's choice. How can an organisation that is suppossed to work for midwives do something to stop them working the way they want? |
| 167 | Autumn | Please immediately reinstate malpractice insurance for independent midwives. This will be taking away womens rights to choose a free birth & safe birth for their child. We need the right to choose & we should have the right. Thank you |
| 168 | Cecily Begley | |
| 169 | Emma Rich | |
| 170 | Emma Rich | |
| 171 | Lynda Sizemore | |
| 172 | Claire Gibbons | I think this is terrible. As an avid Homebirth supporter I have had 2 homebirths with an independent midwife and would never consider giving birth anywhere else and I beleive that this act will take away a very important birth option for many women in Ireland including myself and I strongly feel that this is a violation of human rights as we are all intitled to make a decision for ourselves and not be put in a position where we are not given an option of where we can give birth. The maternity care in this country is in a terrible state and I would not consider having anymore children if the only place I could give birth was in a hospital. Lastly I have experienced both forms of care so feel I am justified in my remarks. |
| 173 | Claire Gibbons | I think this is terrible. As an avid Homebirth supporter I have had 2 homebirths with an independent midwife and would never consider giving birth anywhere else and I beleive that this act will take away a very important birth option for many women in Ireland including myself and I strongly feel that this is a violation of human rights as we are all intitled to make a decision for ourselves and not be put in a position where we are not given an option of where we can give birth. The maternity care in this country is in a terrible state and I would not consider having anymore children if the only place I could give birth was in a hospital. Lastly I have experienced both forms of care so feel I am justified in my remarks. |
| 174 | beth curtis | Birth is as safe as life will ever be, and midwives are well trained in the art of health and safe birth practices. The research speaks for itself! Read it, embrace it, and keep birth in women's trained, skilled hands. |
| 175 | Tonia Schemmel | |
| 176 | Tonia Schemmel | |
| 177 | amanda lafferty | Independant midwives are crucial to women in Ireland as they offer a service NOT provided by the state. |
| 178 | emily belfrage | As a women lucky enough to have had the profound experience of having my daughter at home I feel deeply, deeply saddened that the beaureaucratic system steps in to dictate women's experience of birth. This is a tragedy. All of our ancestors had births at home. I hope they come to haunt those that feel it appropriate to cost the homebirth midwives into extinction. This generation of life givers must be given the opportunity to maintain the knowledge of true labour and birth, or else this too will die; this places the very basis of human life in jeopardy. I wouldn't like to be the one responsible for this. |
| 179 | jenny sendanayake | so many irish women will be feeling distraught!
it is a very sad day.................. |
| 180 | Jane Evans | home birth must be kept as a viable option for all women. Independent Midwives are the only midwives who offer true continuity of care, which time and again has been shown to be the 'gold standard of care' and the safest way of caring for women for both women and midwives. |
| 181 | Helena Mc Mahon | I wish to show my support for the Independent Midwiives, I have had the wonderful experience of having 3 babies born at home. I hope this sevice can be there for my daughters, it is such an important issue |
| 182 | Verone Corley | |
| 183 | Sean Corley | |
| 184 | Aine Corley | |
| 185 | Heather Cameron | |
| 186 | Tanya MacRae | Without my amazing independent midwife Kay Hardie - her experience, her reassurance and personal support, the life of my first baby would have been severely compromised and my second child would never have been born. |
| 187 | Tanja O'Connor | |
| 188 | Wendy O'Doherty | |
| 189 | Anonymous | It must be agreed that choice of maternity services benifits women and society in general. Ceasing to offer insurance cover for independent midwives limits that choice to obstetric care. Who is benefiting from this? Not your members, not childbearing women and not socity in general. |
| 190 | Anonymous | It must be agreed that choice of maternity services benifits women and society in general. Ceasing to offer insurance cover for independent midwives limits that choice to obstetric care. Who is benefiting from this? Not your members, not childbearing women and not socity in general. |
| 191 | Anonymous | home birth is cheaper and results in increased satisfaction for the mother and similar outcomes to that of hospital birth. Why on earth is this happening? shameful!! |
| 192 | Andrea Garrad | |
| 193 | Lee Raggett | |
| 194 | Anja Kositzki-Metzner | Homebirth needs to remain a realistic otion for all women in Ireland. The research is clear and overwhelming supporting the safety of homebirths for low risk women. |
| 195 | Jacy Abston | Midwifery is necessary, and cutting off malpractice insurance helps no one. |
| 196 | Ana Cristina Torres | |
| 197 | Anonymous | |
| 198 | Elizabeth Wilkes | In Australia a lack of insurance has only served to increase difficulties for both midwives and women. Midwives are continuing to practice in many areas uninsured leaving themselves and the women at risk. In areas where midwives choose not to practice for homebirths, women are choosing to birth unattended rather than go to hospital. Stop this problems happening in Ireland please. |
| 199 | Elizabeth Wilkes | In Australia a lack of insurance has only served to increase difficulties for both midwives and women. Midwives are continuing to practice in many areas uninsured leaving themselves and the women at risk. In areas where midwives choose not to practice for homebirths, women are choosing to birth unattended rather than go to hospital. Stop this problems happening in Ireland please. |
| 200 | Anne Bousfield | |