Insurance for Ireland's Independent Midwives

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   Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2007

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2. 152
   Name: Jo Swett on May 14, 2007

   Comments: Keep homebirth an option, it is a woman's body and her right to have a non-intervention birth!!!

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3. 153
   Name: Deborah French on May 14, 2007

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4. 154
   Name: Aoife Corley on May 14, 2007

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5. 155
   Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2007

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6. 156
   Name: Renee Weldon on May 14, 2007

   Comments: I think it is disgraceful that independant midwives will not be covered to practice that which is at the heart of normal chilbirth.

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7. 157
   Name: Siobhan Mc Grath on May 14, 2007

   Comments: Woman need to have choice regarding the most important thing that a woman will ever experience.

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8. 158
   Name: Kay Hardie on May 14, 2007

   Comments: 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

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9. 159
   Name: Kay Hardie on May 14, 2007

   Comments: 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

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10. 160
    Name: Michelle Barnes on May 14, 2007

    Comments: Homebirth is a basic choice that should be available to all women.

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11. 161
    Name: Richard Lane on May 14, 2007

    Comments: I cant beleive an organisation liek this can treat indepandant midwives like this, it is very sad

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12. 162
    Name: Penny Simkin on May 14, 2007

    Comments: 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.

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13. 163
    Name: Helaine Brenner on May 14, 2007

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14. 164
    Name: Robin Reed on May 14, 2007

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15. 165
    Name: Courtenay Murray-Grabowski on May 14, 2007

    Comments: 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!

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16. 166
    Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2007

    Comments: 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

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17. 167
    Name: Autumn on May 14, 2007

    Comments: 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

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18. 168
    Name: Cecily Begley on May 14, 2007

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19. 169
    Name: Emma Rich on May 14, 2007

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20. 170
    Name: Emma Rich on May 14, 2007

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21. 171
    Name: Lynda Sizemore on May 14, 2007

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22. 172
    Name: Claire Gibbons on May 14, 2007

    Comments: 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.

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23. 173
    Name: Claire Gibbons on May 14, 2007

    Comments: 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.

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24. 174
    Name: Beth Curtis on May 14, 2007

    Comments: 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.

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25. 175
    Name: Tonia Schemmel on May 14, 2007

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26. 176
    Name: Tonia Schemmel on May 14, 2007

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27. 177
    Name: Amanda Lafferty on May 14, 2007

    Comments: Independant midwives are crucial to women in Ireland as they offer a service NOT provided by the state.

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28. 178
    Name: Emily Belfrage on May 14, 2007

    Comments: 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.

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29. 179
    Name: Jenny Sendanayake on May 14, 2007

    Comments: so many irish women will be feeling distraught! it is a very sad day..................

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30. 180
    Name: Jane Evans on May 14, 2007

    Comments: 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.

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31. 181
    Name: Helena Mc Mahon on May 14, 2007

    Comments: 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

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32. 182
    Name: Verone Corley on May 14, 2007

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33. 183
    Name: Sean Corley on May 14, 2007

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34. 184
    Name: Aine Corley on May 14, 2007

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    Name: Heather Cameron on May 14, 2007

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36. 186
    Name: Tanya MacRae on May 14, 2007

    Comments: 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.

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37. 187
    Name: Tanja O'Connor on May 14, 2007

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38. 188
    Name: Wendy O'Doherty on May 14, 2007

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39. 189
    Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2007

    Comments: 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.

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    Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2007

    Comments: 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.

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41. 191
    Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2007

    Comments: 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!!

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42. 192
    Name: Andrea Garrad on May 14, 2007

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43. 193
    Name: Lee Raggett on May 14, 2007

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    Name: Anja Kositzki-Metzner on May 14, 2007

    Comments: 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.

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45. 195
    Name: Jacy Abston on May 14, 2007

    Comments: Midwifery is necessary, and cutting off malpractice insurance helps no one.

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46. 196
    Name: Ana Cristina Torres on May 14, 2007

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47. 197
    Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2007

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48. 198
    Name: Elizabeth Wilkes on May 14, 2007

    Comments: 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.

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    Name: Elizabeth Wilkes on May 14, 2007

    Comments: 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.

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    Name: Anne Bousfield on May 14, 2007

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