This has been a terrible few days for homebirth midwives here in Australia, the articles so bad and lacking in information.
This is a particularly bad one so you can all see what is happening. I have no idea whether 4 babies have died in the past 9 months but I don’t think they have either, it was something said by an Obstetrician and then taken on a role.
It is so unfair that journalists who knows nothing about birth and can’t be bothered to research it properly can get this garbage published.
I wonder how many babies died in hospital during the same period? How many women were needlessly opened up and their baby’s dragged out and will spend the next few years dealing with the aftermath and trauma every day of their lives? How many babies will suffer long term effects of entering into the world a way that in absolutely not the normal process.
http://www.homebirth.net.au/2009/04/free-for-all-to-attack-homebirth.html