Cutting the cord on home birthsMedical intervention can be a wonderful thing during childbirth. But it can also be scary and unnecessary. So why is the government essentially legislating against home births? asks SJ Finn.
Childbirth
Home birth wingnuts shouting down major steps forward for midwifery
No one is stopping Australian women who want home births from choosing them, writes Bernard Keane.
A veil of secrecy over home births?
A Senate committee has acknowledged that the new changes to midwifery registration will possibly “drive home births underground”, since the government will not cover medical indemnity insurance for home births.
Twitter CEO’s wife tweets through birth
If you can tweet through a bank robbery and while fixing the Hubble telescope, why not document the birth of your first-born through 140-word missives? Sara Morishige Williams, the wife of Twitter CEO Ev Williams, has done just that.
Surrogacy is a business
Being a surrogate is a tough job. Just being a compassionate person who wants to help a couple is not really enough, argues Sarah Elizabeth Richards.
To whom it may concern: On the pain of childbirth
How can statements about childbirth, pain and preparing for motherhood be ‘innocent’? asks DW from Nottingham.
The pain of childbirth is ‘valuable’. So suck it up
So the pain that comes from pushing something the size of a watermelon out of something the size of a lemon is “valuable.” Say what? asks Sophie Black.
Labour in pain: should women say no to the epidural?
Just what women need. Senior midwife Dr Denis Walsh has written in Evidence Based Midwifery that although epidurals are sometimes important, pain can help regulate the birth process.
