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		<title>Turbulent times</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot has been happening in the world of homebirth and midwifery. Many will have read the articles about homebirth, freebirth, midwives and maternity care that are appearing in our papers on a daily basis. I have not posted for a couple of weeks now, for three main reasons: one I have been really busy with my practice which has not been this busy for about two years. Second, I attended the Australian College of Midwives National Conference &#8211; the ACM worked really hard to deliver an excellent conference that was appreciated by all. I had the fantastic opportunity to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Responsibility in birth: Who owns it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who is really responsible for intervention that happens in our births? Is it us or our health professionals? Or is it both? In this blog post, I’m referring to situations where unnecessary intervention has taken place. Of course there’s a place for intervention in some labours and this post does not address interventions that are truly necessary. However that’s defined! Some women argue that birth – and what happens in birth – is their responsibility and they take charge of all decisions and also take responsibility for the outcome of those decisions &#8211; good or bad. Women in this category [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natural birth in hospital?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some ideas to birth naturally in hospital: Read, read, read. Books, websites, any written info from your care provider &#8230; read it all. You also need to know the difference between facts presented to you in an honest and unbiased way, and facts that are being filtered through hospital policy. This is where women benefit from having a private midwife by their side. For example, &#8220;Some risks rise slightly when a woman has high blood pressure. I am uncomfortable with letting your pregnancy continue with high blood pressure because of the risks to the baby and to you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Well-off mothers spend thousands on private midwives</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article from the UK explains that women are spending thousands of pounds on private midwives to achieve the ‘perfect’ birth. The situation is not too different to the Australian experience. In the UK, private midwives charge between £1,800 and £5,000 for a birth, but their services are in high demand from professional, well-educated women who have become disenchanted with the hospital experience. The number of mothers paying for private midwives to attend home births has tripled in the last eight years. Demand has become so high in parts of London and the South East that some expectant mothers have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homebirth Position Statement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian College of Midwives (ACM) is Australia’s professional body for midwives. Recently, ACM was charged with the task of preparing a position statement on home birth. This position statement will have a great impact on the future of home birth services in Australia, so it is of enormous significance to home birthing women and their midwives. As well as a position statement, ACM has developed a Guidance which clarifies the expectations for private midwives when providing midwifery care for a planned homebirth. The documents are: Literature Review Homebirth position statement Guidance for private midwives attending homebirths Probably the best [...]]]></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>The tragic dangers of home births, by coroner</title>
		<link>http://www.sydneymidwife.com.au/2011/05/the-tragic-dangers-of-home-births-by-coroner/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-tragic-dangers-of-home-births-by-coroner</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:52:54 +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 A senior coroner has urged a change in the guidelines for midwives on home births after two breech babies died. &#8230; He said midwives should make explicit the dangers of home births for infants in the breech position. They should note their advice in writing and even get a parent to counter-sign the record. His warning came after inquests yesterday into the deaths of Phoebe Baker and Christopher Gurney &#8230; &#8230; The inquest heard that Penny Baker gave birth to Phoebe at her home &#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the first caesarean, a second one is much more likely</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or Medicare-funded private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link TRACY HART had intended to have her first child &#8230; naturally. But when Ariane failed to move into the normal birth position, Mrs Hart was told that a caesarean was the safest option. Second time around, Mrs Hart, 35, was eager to try again for a natural birth, but at 41 weeks and two days into her pregnancy, she still had not gone into labour. A caesarean was ordered &#8211; because doctors thought an induction might have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our legislation is a threat to the freedom to practise and women’s rights in childbirth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or Medicare-funded private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link Ireland is also going through the process of requiring professional indemnity insurance for all health practitioners, including midwives. Midwives will have access to insurance, provided that they practice according to strict guidelines, much the same as we now have in Australia. The recently-reported horrors endured by home birth midwives in Hungary are but a pale shadow of those planned for midwives in Ireland. Agnes Gereb faced five years in jail for assisting at a home birth: Irish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midwives offered home-birth cover on HSE terms</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:06:45 +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 SELF-EMPLOYED community midwives will be indemnified by the State Claims Agency to attend at home births only if they sign a memorandum of understanding with the HSE &#8230; Minister for Health Mary Harney told the Select Committee on Health and Children she was a supporter of home births for “low-risk” women. &#8230; “If something goes wrong, the Clinical Indemnity Scheme will provide indemnity as long as the midwife has signed the memorandum,” she added. &#8230; They say provisions [...]]]></description>
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