Organic Midwifery in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Medical company

Organic Midwifery

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 408 363 802

Address: Eastern Suburbs 3000 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.organicmidwifery.com.au

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24.01.2022 Sadly what we already know but the system seems to either not know or not acknowledge

24.01.2022 Always an amazing resource and reality check is the incredible Rhea Dempsey

23.01.2022 Gotta love it... can you imagine this on our buses

22.01.2022 An exciting new resource free for everyone who is interested in all things birth related

21.01.2022 The facts say it all... happy homebirth awareness week

21.01.2022 Couldn’t have said it any better. The greatest compliment I receive is when a relative who was at the birth says later- you ladies don’t really do very much do you... makes me smile

18.01.2022 Too funny but not far from the truth

18.01.2022 Agree to disagree on due dates

14.01.2022 Amazingly clever people highlighting our incredible bodies

14.01.2022 Some sensible info

12.01.2022 Here is an interview I did on ABC this afternoon on birth trauma

08.01.2022 How many times do we need to see this result before we stop questioning it

08.01.2022 In 2012, the year Caroline Lovell died, there were 27 maternal deaths in Australia. It is an absolute tragedy that Caroline died, particularly given the circums...tances, and she left behind a beautiful family who absolutely did not deserve what eventuated. I can't comment on what happened at that birth. I don't know whether the midwives were negligent, though the reports come across that way. What I do know is Caroline died during her birth at home and it was tragic, and that the midwives who attended her birth are being held accountable for her death via the legal system, but also by the Australian population in general - the midwives are being demonised, along with homebirth, everywhere you look. However, what of the other 26 women who died in 2012? Did they die in hospital? Does that make it ok? Are their deaths not splashed all over the media because there's noone being held to blame? Or are those deaths not addressed because they happened within the hospital system? Why does every maternal death reported by the media happen to be one attended by a private midwife, when the reality is that the vast majority of adverse outcomes actually happen in hospital, often under the care of obstetricians? What about the countless women who end up statistics of maternal suicide, because of the birth trauma they sustained in the system? Do their deaths not count? Should we not demand reporting on them? One such example of the discrepancy in reporting between obstetric and midwifery led care was when, within the same year, two women safely birthed twins. Both sets of these twins were 'undiagnosed' (i.e. their care providers did not know the mother was carrying twins). One set of twins were born safely at home, under the care of a midwife, and the other set birthed safely in hospital, under obstetric care. The difference? The private midwife was reported, suspended and eventually forfeited her registration, while the obstetrician was applauded for dealing so well with a twin birth. Are we not yet done burning midwives at the stake? How much longer will we allow this to happen?