Love has many faces
Ottawa Citizen
Modern medicine collides with midwifery when Kanata Theatre presents its first show of the season, Having Hope at Home, Sept 14-25. ...

Paramedic 'lied to midwives' in Weymouth home birth crisis
Dorset Echo
Ian Radford told midwives at the home birth in Weymouth that control room staff had instructed him not to take her to hospital because another ambulance was ...

'save our baby unit'
thisiskent.co.uk
The Vigo mum was rushed to Maidstone Hospital when her home birth developed complications. "The midwife called the ambulance and they were here within five ...

Calculating the financial costs of having a child
Helium
Here are a few examples of things that should be financially planned: The hospital visit/home birth! Many people hire a midwife to come to the house and ...

Birth paramedic 'refused to help'
BBC News
The woman was having problems during a home birth in Weymouth last year and midwife Shirley Pike rang 999. Ian Radford arrived but refused to take the woman ...
birth paramedic 'refused to help'BBC News

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Homebirth: Seeking A Harmonious Balance
EmpowHer (blog)
Later, she became as knowledgeable and as healthy as possible, preparing for her own, complete with midwives and obstetricians. Her first delivery was easy, ...

Soothill grandma turns midwife for granddaughter
Batley News
"Never in a million years had we planned for a home birth." But after keeping her parents waiting nine days longer than expected, it seemed baby Florence ...

Ambulance crew on a break 'put unborn baby at risk'
Dorset Echo
Paramedic Ian Radford and an unnamed female ambulance technician told stunned midwives that they had to wait for a second 'back-up' ambulance for the ...

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Midwives give new mums a helping hand at home
Gazette & Herald
MUMS-TO-BE in Bridlington are being offered the chance to have a midwife visit them in their own homes for post and anti-natal sessions. ...

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Ambulance crew who were 'on a break'
Dorset Echo
Paramedic Ian Radford and an unnamed female ambulance technician told stunned midwives that they had to wait for a second 'back-up' ambulance for the ...

Keli Lane 'denied giving birth to Tegan'
Herald Sun
Ms Lane also told Auburn Hospital that Ms Melville - Mr Gillies' mother - was to be the midwife for her planned home birth of Tegan. ...

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The Intimate Journey of Home Births
The Fatherhood Channel (blog)
I'm not at all telling people to have a home birth like me,” says Lake, who after reading a book called “Spiritual Midwifery” decided she wanted to give ...

Opposing Views
Australian Obstetricians: Stop Midwife-Assisted Birth
Opposing Views
This means that women cannot access the midwifery model of care, cannot access homebirth or independent birth centre care, but are forced to have a ...

Batley couple receive settlement after baby dies in bathroom
Huddersfield Examiner
... acting for mum Joanne Holbrook, said there had only been one midwife on duty at the time of the birth and had been attending another home birth. ...

Midwife's wait as hearing adjourned
Plymouth Herald
AN INDEPENDENT midwife accused of botching a home birth in which the baby died faces an anxious wait over her future after the hearing was adjourned. ...

Baby died after no midwife available at Dewsbury and District Hospital
Batley News
The firm said there was only one midwife on duty at the time of the birth who was attending a home birth. The second on-call midwife had phoned in sick, ...

midwife: I was trained in breech-birth procedure
Plymouth Herald
The baby's father, known as Mr A, told the hearing Duthie had repeatedly dismissed the parents' concerns during the home birth in Exeter on September 3, ...

Kind of like home birth without any of the warmth
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog)
A midwife described such cleanup as “those bits that we don't have time for.” The same hospital in the same land of the humane public option also didn't ...

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Home births double over decade
BBC News
In 2002, maternity services in Wales were asked to reach a 10% home birth rate by 2007, making it the only nation in the UK to have a target. Midwives say ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Keli Lane danced at wedding after leaving ward
ABC Online
He has told the jury when she went to hospital to give birth to Tegan she told staff that a home birth had been planned through midwife Julie Melville. ...
`No idea' of Lane baby, midwife tells courtCumberland Courier Newspapers
Woman denies being Keli Lane's midwifeThe Australian

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