[ozmidwifery] FW: [C-Aware] Birth Questionnaire - for WA women only please!

[Heartlogic]

On behalf of WA birthing women, can list members please forward this to WA women they know and if from WA please fill it out and send to Gail Hancock as shown in letter.   warmly, Carolyn Hastie   Hello,   Birthrites: Healing After Caesarean Inc. is preparing a submission to the Minister for Health about the recently released discussion paper, "Western Australian Statewide Obstetrics Services Review". You may like to view this paper at www.health.wa.gov.au/publications/wa-obstetrics-discussion-paper.pdf . Birthrites is concerned that the proposed changes to maternity services in WA may not reflect consumer wants or needs around childbirth, and may reduce women's choices in childbirth in WA. Although Birthrites represents consumers with specific needs, we are broadcasting this survey widely to guage a more general response from a random population of women in WA in terms of what women want in maternity services. You need not have had a child to know what you would most likely want, and you don't need to read the discussion paper to know what you would want and expect in childbirth services. It is important that any changes to the current system are geared towards what women want in antenatal, childbirth and post partum care. So far, the Health Department hasn't consulted women about these changes, and Birthrites wants to make sure that any changes reflect the wants and needs of the childbirth community, and most especially, consumers. You may respond to this survey by indicating your preference within this email and then sending it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or by going to the Birthrites website and responding online. Simply make it as obvious as you can which preferences are yours by either deleting those that don't apply to you, or by adding an 'X' after your preferences. There are no 'right' or 'wrong' answers, so please answer as truthfully as possible, in terms of your personal ideal models of care. You don't need to answer according to what did happen for you, if you have children, but according to what you would most like. Again, the purpose of this survey is to guage what Western Australian women want in terms of childbirth services.   1. In terms of primary carer during your pregnancy you would prefer: an independent midwife to visit you at home. shared care with: midwife and GP midwife and obstetrician GP and obstetrician  to visit an obstetrician GP at her/his surgery. to visit a specialist obstetrician at her/his rooms. no antenatal care. other (please specify). 2. During your labour and birth you would prefer: to birth at home with the support of an independent midwife. to birth at home, unattended by a medical or midwifery caregiver. to birth in a birth centre with the support of an independent midwife. to birth in a birth centre with the support of a birth centre midwife. to labour at home and transfer to hospital with the support of an independent midwife and either an obstetrician GP or specialist obstetrician in attendance. to birth at hospital with hospital midwife and obstetrician GP in attendance. to birth at hospital with hospital midwife and specialist obstetrician in attendance. other (please specify) 3. In the first weeks after your birth you would prefer: to have an independent midwife visit you and your baby in your home to do antenatal checkups. to visit your obstetrician GP at her/his surgery for a six week checkup. to visit your specialist obstetrician for a six week checkup. to have no antenatal care. other (please specify). 4. In pregnancy, labour, birth and post partum, it is most important for you (indicate as many or as few as apply to you): to have continuity of care and carer from early pregnancy until six weeks post partum. to rely entirely on your caregiver to ensure safety, without having to make informed choices. to rely on yourself and your partner, if you are partnered, to research safety issues and decide on your best options. to be given balanced, evidence-based, woman-centred information from your primary caregiver to enable you to make informed choices. to birth in a 'homely' environment. to birth in a medicalised environment. to birth unattended. to have an empowered birth experience, childbirth is an important life event for you. you don't care how you give birth or with who in attendance, childbirth isn't an important life event for you. 5. If you have had a baby/babies, please answer the following in reference to your least satisfactory experience: where did you give birth? hospital birth centre home other (please specify) what was your outcome? vaginal birth with no interventions vaginal birth with non surgical interventions. vaginal birth with surgical interventions (eg ventouse, forceps, episiotomy) caesarean birth other (please specify) would you choose this mode of care again? who was your primary caregiver? midwife obstetrician GP obstetrician other (please specify) The last thing we need to know is your: Age. Number (if any) of your children. If you are currently pregnant. Suburb Occupation/s (yes, we realise that mothers are multi-skilled and eternally occupied!) Birthrites: Healing After Caesarean Inc thanks you for your input. We hope that our submission, including the data we are collecting on WA women's preferences, will be of use to the Health Department in planning future childbirth services in WA. The results of this survey will form a large part of our submission, and will be available for viewing on the Birthrites website as soon as the data has been analysed. Please forward this on to all your Western Australian women contacts. It is important that we obtain responses from as large a population as possible to make this data useful. We are relying on you to ensure that this happens.   Best regards,   Gail Hancock Convenor, Birthrites: Healing After Caesarean Inc. Perth, Western Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] +61 8 9359 0529 www.birthrites.org   I support the National Maternity Action Plan www.maternitycoalition.org.au/NMAP