Choosing Midwifery Care

High quality evidence consistently shows that having the same Midwife provide care through the pregnancy, birth and postnatal period improves outcomes for women and babies, when compared with other types of care. Women are more likely to experience a normal birth, successfully breastfeed and feel satisfied with their birth. Women are less likely to birth preterm and experience unnecessary intervention (The chance of having an unassisted vaginal birth in Australia is now only 49%).

Only 4 in 10 women in Australia have continuity of carer for the whole maternity period. Imagine the change in outcomes if all women received this.

(Australian Institute of Health & Wellbeing, Mother & Babies Report, 2022).

Choosing Homebirth

For many women homebirth is a safe option. Amazingly just planning to homebirth (even if the woman ends up birthing at a hospital) reduces the chance of interventions such as caesarean section, operative vaginal birth, use of epidural, labour augmentation, maternal infection, 3rd and 4th degree perineal tears, and postpartum haemorrhage (1).

To discuss your unique needs and the option of home birthing please see contact page. If you are planning to birth in a hospital I can still provide support for you there to continue my continuity with you. (In a hospital setting I am a support person only, not a clinician).

For more information visit Homebirth Australia

1.(Maternal outcomes & birth interventions among women who begin labour intending to birth at home compared to women of low risk who intend to give birth in a hospital. Systematic review, 2020. Reitsma et al).