Ten Moons in Moorabbin, Victoria, Australia | Pregnancy care centre

Ten Moons

Locality: Moorabbin, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 481 352 137

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25.01.2022 What a super fast entrance Sunday made into the world on 10/08/18 @ 21.46 ... with no time to spare for the team to arrive! But lucky the pool was already filled enough for mum to enjoy her waterbirth. Congratulations to Kaity & Matt on their wonderful homebirth. Willow is now a proud big sister! #homebirth #waterbirth #midwife #melbourne

25.01.2022 3 quarters into 2018 ... stats time! Birthing outcomes for this year to date We attended 40 births ... 95% planned homebirth including: - 2 mums with diet controlled gestational diabetes - 1 accidental breech birth - 1 Vaginal Birth after Caesarean (VBAC) - 3 mums over 42 weeks gestation - 1 mum who had her waters broke for 8 looooong days 13% transfer rate (no emergency transfers) 90% Vaginal Birth 51% first time mums, 46% had given birth before, 2% VBAC 19% had no ultrasound scans, 91% did not have the Glucose Test (GTT), 99% declined the vaginal swab at 36 weeks (GBS) For our mums that are Rh negative: - 87.5% declined routine Anti D during pregnancy - 12.5% declined Anti D after birth 55% Waterbirth 92% used no medical pain relief Biggest baby 4600gr, smallest baby 2200gr 100% 5 min Apgar of 9 1 Baby admitted to Special Care Nursery for small birth weight 2200gr (born in hospital following transfer) 87% physiological birth of the placenta, 81.6% normal blood loss 78% intact perineum/ no tearing 0 Labour inductions 100% birth attended by primary midwife 85% declined Vitamin K for their baby 31% declined the Newborn Screening Test 100% rated their client satisfaction as excellent (19 returned surveys) #homebirth #midwife #naturalbirth #melbourne

25.01.2022 What a triumphant moment!! Congratulations to Victoria & Luc on their amazing homebirth of their first child on 10/09/18 @ 18.05. Lila was born in water straight into mums arms for the biggest cuddle ever. Well done guys! You did it! Lilas name is now on our wall of fame in the office! #homebirth #waterbirth #midwife #melbourne

24.01.2022 N E W B I R T H S T O R Y No scans, no Glucose test, no anti D for mum during pregnancy No Vitamin K for baby... 42 weeks and 4 days See more

24.01.2022 Everyone cant believe I didnt know I was having twins but.... Left pregnant with Aston 37+4 weeks (born 3 days later) right pregnant with twins 35+4 weeks (born 10hours later) .... not really that much difference considering there was a whole other human in there!

23.01.2022 Hello St Kilda!! What a beautiful day! We are out and about visiting our postnatal mums. No stress to try and get dressed in time to leave the house for an appointment after a sleep in with baby, no need to try and put an unsettled baby into the car seat or stop the car multiple times to pull over for a feed. ... Well come to your home!!! All the after birth appointments are home visits and you can have as many of them as you like until 6 weeks after birth! And even outside of these visits, you can contact your midwife 24/7 for advise and reassurance. During the appointments well talk breastfeeding settling & sleeping arrangements baby wearing and self-care for mums. And of course well perform health check-ups for mum and baby too. For most of our mums 15 home visits after birth are plenty to support them with their transition into parenthood and built up their confidence with taking care of their precious newborn baby! #homebirth #melbourne #midwife

22.01.2022 Good Morning Upwey! Its a freezing 7.5C up here and it couldnt be a more cosy day to have a baby! We love servicing the Yarra Ranges! ...

22.01.2022 This is part 2 from our previous post on the Victorian birthing stats In the last post we covered the Victorian Hospitals induction rate for first time mums - Hospital by hospital This time we are covering the Caesarean section rate for first time mums in public and private hospitals... Again, some of the private hospitals have requested to remain anonymous/ unidentified and are named Hospital A, B, C, D, E and F in the report Same with the picture that we posted on the induction of labour rate, there is a clear distinction between public and private care just by looking at the blue bars in the picture from a distance Again, the Caesarean section rate in private hospitals (34.1 %) is x 2 higher then in public hospitals (16.1 %)!! Just to recap: the induction rate in private hospitals was x 4 higher!! So is private hospital care really better... ? Remember, we are talking about healthy first time mums with low-risk and uncomplicated pregnancies here that ending up with major surgery to give birth that can have serious complications such as blood clots, infection and surgical injuries to bladder and intestines. But not just that, in subsequent pregnancies there is the risk of your uterus tearing open along the scar line from the previous Caesarean section. The national Caesarean section rate is 34%, which is 1 in 3 mums!! If you are fit and healthy and want a natural birth without use of any synthetic medications, cutting, instruments and no separation from your baby then planning a HOMEBIRTH will give you the highest chance of successfully achieving this! Our Caesarean section rate is 7%! You can find our full birthing stats on our webpage (under Quality and Safety) or on our Facebook page. Feel free to get in touch with us if you would like more information. #homebirth #midwife #melbourne See more

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19.01.2022 N E W B I R T H S T O R Y No scans, no Glucose test, no anti D for mum No Vitamin K, no Newborn Screening Test for baby... Lotusbirth See more

18.01.2022 Everyone can’t believe I didn’t know I was having twins but.... Left pregnant with Aston 37+4 weeks (born 3 days later) right pregnant with twins 35+4 weeks (born 10hours later) .... not really that much difference considering there was a whole other human in there!

17.01.2022 And then... there where 4! Look at that big smile on the parents face! Well done Nicole and Mike on your second homebirth , this time round of a boy weighing 3900gr. Raff was born on land 14/10/18 @ 21.28 and went straight into his mums arms for a cuddle. Such a pleasure and so much fun to be by your side again for a second time. Quinn is now a big sister! Congratulations #homebirth #melbourne #midwife #naturabirth #tenmoons

16.01.2022 Not sure if you are in our catchment area for our homebirths services and if we are able to look after you? Check out all the places across Melbourne where we have supported mums to have a homebirth! Click on the link below and have a sneaky peek...

16.01.2022 EXCITING NEWS!!! It has happened! We are pleased to announce...... Ivette gave birth at home on 06/08/18 @ 05.55 in the morning to a healthy baby girl, Amelie, weighing 4320gr!! It was a bit of a roller coaster to say the least! Thank you very much for everybody who has donated so far towards Ivettes homebirth. Thanks to all your wonderful and kind donations... her dream has come true! However, we are still short by $2,375 of our goal that covers all her homebirth expenses. Please keep sharing so we can hit the goal of $3,700. Again, thank you very much for all your kind donations.

12.01.2022 Introducing Bonny! This sweet baby girl had a very gentle entry into the world at home in water on 12/08/18 @ 00.42. Amazing homebirth for first time parents Tuesday & Doug! Congratulations!! Also thank you to Doula Tasara for her incredible support. #homebirth #waterbirth #midwife #melbourne #naturalbirth #doula @ Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

11.01.2022 Have a look at these cuties all loved up in the birthpool. Winter Rose arrived earth-side at home on 19/08/18 @ 16.49 and swam straight into her daddys arms. Congratulations on a wonderful homebirth for first time parents Steph & Kyle. Amazing... And a big thank you to Doula Rachel for all the support! #homebirth #waterbirth #midwife #melbourne #naturalbirth

10.01.2022 Our surprise homebirth twins have turned 1!! Happy Birthday Ari & Bodhi!!...

09.01.2022 Ten Moons has set up a fundraiser for one of our mums who is desperate to finish off with her dreambirth of her last child at home. Please read Ivettes story and share. We have started the first donation by a fee deduction for care of $700. ... Please note, we have eligibility criteria in place for our clients to undergo crowd funding and Ivette meets all of them. Thank you for your support!

09.01.2022 What a homebirth full of unexpected surprises , literally one after the other!! Mum gave birth to her sweet little baby boy in water and then we thought the placenta was about to come... But as it turned out, there was another baby boy about to make his entrance into the world!! What a super hero mum Brooke is. What an amazing birth!! The twins are identical twins and were born this morning 19/10/18 @ 08.03 & 08.07 weighing 2350 and 2200gr. M...um and babies are doing really well. Big congratulations to everyone!! #homebirth #waterbirth #midwife #melbourne #naturalbirth #twins #tenmoons #twinhomebirth @ Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Amended post (07/11/18): An Ambulance was called following the birth of the twins to transfer to hospital. The twins arrived premature (at 35 weeks). One of the twins experience respiratory difficulties. Both twins were transferred by Ambulance to hospital.

09.01.2022 Look at this happy and cheeky cherub who had a super fast entry into the world. Dad had to step in and catch as the midwives were still racing to get there. Alexander was born at home in water on 27/08/18 @ 11.24. Welcome earthside little one!! Congratulations to Marisa & Stephen on the birth of their 3rd child and second homebirth with Ten Moons. So lovely to have you back with us. Its always extra special to see our families bringing another sibling into the world. We might even see you again for a third time round... #homebirth #midwife #waterbirth #melbourne

08.01.2022 Welcome to the world Thea!! Thea arrived earthside on 23/07/18 @ 07.15 in the morning and was born at home in water. ! Congratulations to Vicky & Andrew on their wonderful news! #homebirth #waterbirth #midwife #melbourne

06.01.2022 My darling surprise twins came into this world in such a hurry, with just 1 hour of active labour and birthed gracefully into our bath at home. We expected a pl...acenta and instead were blessed with a twin. Both midwives were suspended, controversy was ignited and their story circulated all over the world, with over 1.5 million views, comments and likes. So why was their birth such a big deal? Because it shocked people. Because it highlighted the underlying birthing culture we have all unknowingly become a part of. A culture that has led us to believe that a natural and instinctual approach to birth is not safe, desirable or achievable. A culture that has unknowingly taken a stronghold over our beliefs and ingrained in us a subconscious fear around our ability to carry and birth our babies. Now we simply enter the system. Get pregnant, get your schedule, get told where to be, at what time, who is going to touch you, poke you, scan you, and tell you if your baby is normal. And we dont question it because we are led to believe that it is all very necessary rather than being told the truth, which is that it is all optional, and each mother should evaluate and individually select the right care options for her and her baby. The system has taken away the single most important question that every expecting mother should be asking herself. how do I want to carry and birth my baby? What specific tests, scans and advisors will make ME personally feel safe and empowered and using each of her choices accordingly. The system has created fear and a distorted reality that we are not capable of knowing what our bodies and babies need, and in turn has stopped us from connecting in to our incredibly powerful mothers instincts. And if we dont connect in, we forget..we forget what a truly instinctual, natural and transformational process pregnancy and birthing can be. we forget that the process is as individual and unique to us as our own thumb print, and in essence, we forget who we truly are.. powerful, capable and intuitive MOTHERS. We forget that it is our rite of passage to transcend and bring our babies in to the world, our way. Instinctively we know we are capable, instinctively we know we want to, but we are led to believe that we cant. And we are led to believe this because essentially the hospital system simple cannot cater for individualised birthing care and it needs its staff and patients to work within its tight protocols. We may be excelling in the technology department but we are failing in our humanness. There is no greater time in a mothers or babys life that they need personalised, connected, loving human care than at birth. At a time when they have never felt so vulnerable, raw and instinctual mothers need to feel heard, they need to feel safe and they need to feel in control of their birthing space. Mothers have the right to accept and decline care according to their individual circumstances and they should be encouraged to use their instincts for what their body and baby needs. I am a mother and my body was my babys keeper, its safe haven and the one that gave it life. My body had grown my baby without technology telling it how, it knew, it birthed my baby without technology telling it how, it knew.... I trusted my body, I trusted myself, I trusted my instincts. If I needed help I would call upon it, and I would do so feeling safe and empowered that we have a world class medical system to support us, but otherwise, I would just embrace the process, let go and be the mother nature that I am. Pregnancy is not an illness, I was not sick... and birthing is not a medical procedure, it is a natural procedure, that MAY, if necessary, need to be assisted by medical procedures. I dont really have an opinion, scan, dont scan, do tests, dont do them, home birth, hospital birth... all of them have their risks for and against, but the biggest risk you will take is if you dont take charge and do your birth your way. Birth traumas and interventions are growing in numbers and its only you that can prevent it from happening to you. There is no single right way to be pregnant and give birth, there is only the right way for you. A safe pregnancy and labour is one in which the mother feels empowered, safe and within herself... so ask the question what do I need to do to feel that way? Get informed, find the right care for you and own your space. Its time to remember who we are, trust ourselves and be brave. But why is this becoming harder and harder to achieve? Well because in essence hospitals really are doing the best they can. The demand on the hospital system is immense, and the people coming through their doors are from all walks of life. So in order to have quality control and consistency within an environment that has shift work and high staff turnover they need to have strict policies to follow. However, with such tight policies to adhere to staff can be left feeling like order takers that have no ability to use their own intuition and experience, and the result is that hospitals are being run by fear of reprimand and not the talented and nurturing humans that work there. Hospital staff are caught between a rock and a hard place because they know each birthing mothers needs are different but they also know that they need to follow the guidelines because if they step outside of it the consequences can be as high as suspensions or loss of licences. I understand why this is the case but that doesnt make it OK. It doesnt make it OK to take away a womens rights and ability to birth her baby her way. It doesnt make it OK to remove a very capable and experienced carers ability to respond to a mothers individual needs. It doesnt make it OK to push unnecessary interventions. It doesnt make it OK that midwifery and nursing satisfaction levels are declining. It doesnt make it OK that increasingly women are experiencing birthing traumas and suffering from PTSD after birth. Who is winning here? Not the staff, not the mothers, not the hospital reputation. The twins birth was controversial because it was a clear reminder of what pregnancy and birthing can be when we go back to basics. It was proof that not all pregnancies and births need the one size fits all approach that we are offered. For some women being within a hospital environment makes them feel safe, and they are able to relax and achieve the birth they deserve and desire, and for that we are all grateful but what about the women that need a different type of care to achieve the birth that they deserve and desire? These are the women that we find seeking alternative birthing options such as birthing houses, home births and free birth. These mothers have very different needs in order to have a truly successful birth and to feel safe in their birthing space. These mothers need to feel heard; they need to feel in control, and they need to do things in a way that feels right for them. Unfortunately though, these mothers birthing options are slowly being removed, the AHPRA policies are becoming too tight and too regimented for private midwives to truly fulfil these mothers birthing rights. Take for example my midwife Martina, she did nothing but accept mine and my husbands informed pregnancy and birthing choices, which is our right, but for that she has lost everything. She had to close her business, lay off her staff, move from her home and spend over $40,000 on legal advice. Yet 6 months later, has not been proven guilty of anything and is still unable to work. And 6 months later AHPRA has still not spoken to my husband and I for our account on the events. This is not right and sadly her situation is not unique. We should be empowering and equipping private midwives to successfully help mothers birth at home but instead the private system is being cracked down on and carers are being reprimanded for doing nothing but supporting birthing women rights. There cant be a one size fits all policy for midwives when their patients needs, and birthing rights, are so vast. And it is completely unethical to take their licence away for supporting a womens birth rights. If we dont get this right, we will see an increase in fearful midwives refusing birthing women care, and in turn these mothers will have no one to care for them and will choose to free birth. This does not sound like a desirable outcome. So where does this leave future birthing mothers? You can read our full birth story at Www.surprisetwinhomebirth.com

06.01.2022 Welcome to the world for our August babies! #homebirth #waterbirth #midwife #melbourne

06.01.2022 This baby girl enjoyed a final loooooonnng siesta inside her mums belly before making her grand and swift entrance into the world ... after 5 D A Y S O F L A B O U R it was suddenly Vamos!!!!! Itzel was born at home on 22/08/18 @ 08.27 in the morning. What a roller coaster journey. We laughed , we cried and we even had a car ride ... Amazing work super strong and determined Ale & every so calm and patient Paco! Congratulations to you both!!! Enhorabuena & Feliz cumpleaos Itzel #homebirth #midwife #melbourne #naturalbirth

06.01.2022 And this is Freya!! This sweet little cherub had a very calm entry into the world on 22/09/18 @ 08.30 in the morning. Freya was born at home into water and swam straight into mums arms for a big cuddle just as big sister Ruby walked in to check out what was happening. Congratulations to Lauralee and Abdullah on their wonderful homebirth!! #homebirth #waterbirth #melbourne #midwife #naturalbirth

05.01.2022 Check out this superhero!! First baby, in posterior position, 4 hours of pushing 4240gr of long awaited cuteness into this world... and mum didnt even bat an eyelid!! Welcome earthside Samuel!! Congratulations to Lara & Nick on their amazing homebirth on 16/09/18 @ 07.51. #homebirth #melbourne #midwife #lotusbirth

05.01.2022 That proud moment and magic hormone rush immediately after birth!! What a celebration... especially after that mystical 3rd baby that has the reputation to be a wild card keeps us all on our toes. Aura Ocean was born at home in water on 07/10/18 @ 20.56 and floated straight into her mums arms. Congratulations to Sarah & Nathan on their wonderful homebirth! #homebirth #waterbirth #midwife #naturalbirth #melbourne

04.01.2022 Our September babies... Congratulations to all the wonderful families that we had the pleasure to support for their birthing journey!!

03.01.2022 We were all getting excited when Ivettes waters broke thinking that this bubba would be here very soon But little Amelie had different plans! She stayed all put very comfortably in mums belly for the next 8 days and even decided to surprise us with yet another little twist! 2 days before birth Ivette discovered that there was some meconium in the waters - Amelia decided that it was also a good idea to have a poo whilst we were patiently waiting fo...r her arrival. Finally, finally on 06/08/18 Amelie had a very speedy arrival at home (as planned) @ 05.55 in the morning weighing 4320gr!! Congratulations to Ivette & Juan on their first successful homebirth and birth of their 3rd (and last ) child. Thank you also to our colleagues at Box Hill Hospital (mum had a homebirth back up booking there) for their support over the last 8 days. After 2 traumatising hospital births Ivette finally had her dream homebirth!!! We are so happy and excited for Ivette and her family! See more

01.01.2022 Are we in active labour yet? YES!! In fact I can hear you are pushing!! We will come over right away!! Aisha was born at home in water on 21/10/18 @ 01.47 am. Congratulations to Nicole & Wael on a wonderful homebirth of their first child. #homebirth #naturalbirth #tenmoons #midwife #melbourne #waterbirth @ Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

01.01.2022 Welcome Manawa-Ora!!! Have a look at this happy little cherub who had a very calm entry into the world ... born at home into water on 27/09/18 @ 11.37 and swam straight into her daddys arms. Congratulations to Rima and John on becoming a family of 4 #homebirth #midwife #waterbirth #melbourne #naturalbirth @ Melbourne, Victoria, Australia