[ozmidwifery] FW: URGENT - Publcily funded Home Birth needs your support!!

[Julie Clarke]

As I write, the Health Minister, Mr Morris Iemma, currently has before him a report considering publicly funded home birthing for healthy women in NSW. I appreciate how busy everyone is but I think it is an excellent and rare opportunity to express, in the form of letter writing, our need and support for such a service. Therefore, I am asking that all you happy homebirthers, midwives, partners, family and friends, please write the Minister a letter in support of this proposal.  It doesn't matter how detailed or straightforward the letter is, the main aim is to inundate the Minister our enthusiasm for such a service. We need to let the politicians know that we are out there and we are not going away until our needs have been met!!! Thanks and all the best - Brigett English PS: I would be grateful if you could please forward my email to all interested parties. Minister's address: Mr Morris Iemma, Minister for Health, NSW Health Department, Level 30, Govenor Macquarie Tower, 1 Farrer Place, NSW 2000 (My letter) Dear Minister Iemma Publicly funded home birth for health women I understand that the NSW Health Department are currently assessing the viability of a home birth service for healthy women. I am writing to you to express my absolute support and enthusiasm for such a service. I gave birth at home in the UK and it was without doubt the most empowering experience of my life. One of the many positive aspects of a publicly funded home birth service is that it will promote the view that birth is essentially a healthy and normal process. I feel that this is something that will be of benefit to all women and their families. Thankfully, there are midwifes currently operating independently in NSW who believe in the birth process. I am so grateful that these health professionals are willing to provide such a valuable maternity service to women like me without insurance and with little support from the medical establishment. I am hopeful that this lack of support for women and their partners, who choose to birth outside the hospital system and the midwives that support them, is about to change! Yours sincerely Want to block unwanted pop-ups? Download the free MSN Toolbar now!