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	<title>Private Midwifery in Sydney &#187; freebirth</title>
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		<title>An amazing homebirth story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isabel is an amazing, strong woman who came to me for pregnancy care. She had planned to move overseas, and as you&#8217;ll read, her pregnancy came as a surprise. She planned a homebirth with a midwife overseas &#8211; but the story has a twist in it! We went about the pregnancy, preparing thoroughly for an active, natural and drug-free birth. I was thrilled to receive Isabel&#8217;s birth story, and she has kindly agreed to share it here. Thank You to all the women out there who shared their birth stories and experiences which gave me to determination to birth at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rules on patient safety hit midwives</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit my website to explore home birth, hospital birth and Medicare-funded private midwifery care. Link Homebirth supporters claim bureaucrats are restricting women&#8217;s choice by stopping some midwives from managing higher-risk homebirths, particularly women who have had a caesarean delivery. Homebirth Australia said it was aware of more than 20 recent cases &#8230; where midwives had been deregistered or had conditions imposed on their registration because of claims they were working outside safe guidelines. &#8230; The Weekend West is aware of a WA midwife who was ordered last week to stop providing care for planned homebirths in women at higher risk, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prenatal Exams Took Away From The Beauty Of Being Pregnant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit my website to explore home birth, hospital birth and Medicare-funded private midwifery care. Link An unassisted childbirth. No doctor, no midwife, no nothing&#8230; I come from a long line of pioneer women who routinely gave birth alongside the wagon trail, or in the back of a wagon, for that matter. It wasn’t a choice, it was how it had to be done. Now, hundreds of couples around the world are choosing the experience. Not necessarily in a wagon, but alone &#8230; a completely unassisted childbirth, and they call themselves freebirthers. They say it’s healthier physically and psychologically for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baby born home, alone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 18:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit my website to explore home birth, hospital birth and Medicare-funded private midwifery care. Link Before reading the article, it needs to be said that home birth is still legal. Even though it is not covered by insurance, it is legal for women to be attended by a registered midwife in private practice. NICHOLE Lee-Yidaki&#8217;s dream of giving birth to her baby at home came a little too late for the Northern Rivers&#8217; small home-birth industry. So she decided to go it alone. When the Federal Government last year tightened insurance regulations around home-birth midwives, the industry warned it risked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pregnant women drawn to &#8216;unassisted childbirth&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit my website to explore home birth, hospital birth and Medicare-funded private midwifery care. Link Andrea Salcedo&#8217;s mother was at her side when her first child was born in a hospital. But when the Calgary woman decided to have her next two children at home, without the assistance of a doctor or midwife, her own mother told her a hospital is the best place to have a baby. &#8220;It was very disheartening,&#8221; Salcedo recalled. &#8220;It took some time for myself to just kind of accept that it was the way they felt. &#8220;With my third [birth], I offered for my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Do it yourself&#8221; births prompt alarm</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 18:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MEDICARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR MIDWIFERY CARE THROUGH THIS SERVICE! Visit my website to explore home birth, hospital birth and Medicare-funded private midwifery care. Link A growing number of women are choosing to give birth without the assistance of doctors or midwives, provoked by dissatisfaction with modern obstetric care, fear of unnecessary medical intervention and a desire to reclaim birth as a private, natural act. It&#8217;s a choice the professionals say is fraught with peril. They fear the fledgling &#8220;freebirth&#8221; movement may undo gains in mother-infant mortality. The women, however, believe unassisted childbirth is emotionally and physically the safest option for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women may &#8216;go it alone&#8217; on home births</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link A campaign group has warned that some women may opt for home births without professional care as a result of problems with indemnity insurance for qualified home-birth midwives. The Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services-Ireland (AIMS) says proposed new midwifery legislation will in effect make it illegal for a home birth midwife to provide antenatal and birth care if the pregnant woman&#8217;s circumstances do not meet criteria set in a current memorandum of understanding which midwives have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natural childbirth: whose birth plan is it anyway?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link With the trend for &#8216;natural&#8217; childbirth growing and a government setting targets for home births, are British women really free to choose how they&#8217;d like to go through labour, or must they bow to a new earth-mother ideology? &#8230; Hannah Hancock was pregnant with her first child she was keen on the idea of a drug-free birth. But &#8230; when labour pains kicked in, ideals were abandoned. &#8216;It was a long labour. At first I was on an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politics of birth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link After five hours of active labour, Kate gave birth to her second, healthy baby boy. Holding him tenderly she is oblivious to the drama unfolding &#8230; She is hemorrhaging. Her uterus has failed to contract after the birth causing massive blood loss &#8230; the registrar tugs at her umbilical cord in an attempt to remove her placenta. Unable to do so he proceeds manually. There is no explanation, sedation or consent as he plunges into her uterus. Meanwhile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midwives in Jeopardy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 19:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link As she nears the last month of her pregnancy, Piper Harrell is counting on giving birth to her second child in the same place she had her first, in her second-floor walk-up apartment &#8230; But this time, Ms. Harrell &#8230; is afraid that if she insists on having her baby at home, she will make her midwife &#8230; an outlaw. Seven of New York’s 13 home-birth midwives &#8230; had an agreement with St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan that its [...]]]></description>
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