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

2004-08-05 Thread Callum & Kirsten



or a fax number
Kirsten
 
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  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Julie 
  Clarke 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  
  Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 3:10 
  PM
  Subject: [ozmidwifery] FW: URGENT - 
  Publcily funded Home Birth needs your support!!
  
  
  
  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
  
  
  
  
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Re: [ozmidwifery] FW: URGENT - Publcily funded Home Birth needs your support!!

2004-08-05 Thread Anne Clarke



Dear Julie,
 
Would you have an email address for the NSW 
health minister?
Regards,Anne Clarke


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

2004-08-05 Thread 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












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[ozmidwifery] Oh so true!

2004-08-05 Thread Mary Murphy




Quote of the Week
"We cannot birth our babies through sheer force of will. We need to learn the 
more subtle, the equally powerful, path of surrender."
— Sarah J. 
Buckley