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Freebirth in Maire Claire
September 17, 2007, 12:00:19 PM by Administrator
Maire Claire has published an article on freebirth! You can read some of it via the web here - I gave birth completely alone!
Particularly interesting is the comment by RANZCOG president Christine Tippet that litigation fears are a factor in the decision to recommend and carry out major abdominal surgery, also making the comment "Women won't sue over a C-section, but they will over a vaginal birth gone wrong."
Perphas woman won't sue because they aren't given the truth about the consequences of medical management in birth, from the true risks of epidurals and birthing in positions convenient for doctors to speeding up labours and artifical drugs given routinely minutes after birth for placentas to come out. Understandably in the moment, women only have the knowledge of the experts to trust, and what else can they do but trust that their doctor is doing the right thing by their individual case and baby?
No wonder women are feeling ripped off after their surgical or instrumental births upon discovering evidence based research that confirms their nagging doubts and dissatisification with their births. Here are interesting statistics out of Victoria's perinatal and maternal statistics. I chose Victoria because they were the only state to clearly seperate the place of birth.
Women who plan homebirths have a caesarean rate of 7% (0.2% elective, 6.8% emergency)
Women who plan birth centre births have a caesarean rate of 11.9% (2.1% elective, 9.8% emergency)
Women who plan hospital births have a caesarean rate of 29.4% (15.6% elective, 14.3% emergency)
The three main reported indications for all caesareans were:
Previous caesarean (33%), CPD/failure to progress (18%), and malpresentation (15.3%).
The three main reported indications for elective caesareans were:
Previous caesareans (57%), malpresentation (18%) and Other reported indications. (12.5%).
The three main reported indications for emergency caesareans were:
CPD/failure to progress(32%), fetal distress (31%) and malpresentation (12%).
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National Geographic Documentary
September 09, 2007, 08:31:14 AM by Administrator
National Geographic has contacted Purebirth. The e-mail transcript is below with the contact details removed to protect privacy.
I am researching a documentary series for the National Geographic Channel here in Australia called "Swimming Against the Tide". One of the subjects we hope to cover is home births so I am emailing you in the hope you might know of someone suitable.
I am looking for a mum who has choosen to have her baby at home (either freebirth or assisted by a midwife or doula). We would like to interview them and would also need for them to have shot the birth on video. Hopefully they'll live in Sydney as this is where we will be shooting although we can travel to Melbourne if required. We would be able to pay them a talent fee of $1000.
Contact Purebirth Australia if you are interested and we will pass on the mobile number and e-mail of the National Geographic team doing this documentary.
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Unassisted Childbirth Statistics
July 23, 2006, 11:33:24 PM by Administrator
We are running an unofficial data collection on unassisted pregnancy and childbirth so that we have some statistics to compare.
Australian Unassisted Childbirth Statistics lists the data that we are looking for from women who have had or have planned for, unassisted pregnancies and/or childbirths.
Please do contact us and share your information.
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