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“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers - strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.”

- Barbara Katz Rothman

WHY GIVE BIRTH AT HOME?

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HOMEBIRTH IS BEING ABLE TO BIRTH WHERE AND WITH WHOM YOU ARE COMFORTABLE
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There are many reasons why women may choose a Homebirth, some of these include:

• personalised, continuous care from a midwife
• care in the comfort of her own home
• birth in comfortable, familiar surroundings
• decreased need for interventions & drugs
• women can choose who is present at their birth
• no separation from their baby, partner/children
• less risk of infection (no foreign bacteria)
• freedom to do what she wants – dance, sing, scream, walk around or submerge in water
• Mothers & babies have improved outcomes
• Improved breastfeeding rates
• trusting, one-on-one relationships
• Cultural/Spiritual birth rituals as required
• much higher vaginal birth after caesarean rates

​Expanding midwife-led models of care and publicly funded homebirth services will take women and their babies out of Australian hospitals, free up beds for our ageing population, provide a cost saving to government and deliver better health outcomes and greater satisfaction to birthing mothers.