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Homebirth: Postcode
2558
Year of baby's birth
2013
Satisfaction with care from midwives:
Satisfaction with care from obstetricians:
Satisfaction with care from GP:
Satisfaction with quality of processes/facilities:
Satisfaction with birth experience overall:
Model of care
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Is. Mat. Service (pub. hosp.)
Why did you choose this model of care?
Thought I would have a more culturally sensitive model of care.
What were your choices for this birth?
Water immersion for labour and birth, Support for normal vaginal birth, Unmedicalised birth process, Nothing in particular-willing to fit in with hospital processes
How did your birth start?
What were your outcomes?
Staff I didn't know attending me, Breastfeeding difficulties, Ongoing health challenges for me/baby
Details of experience
Had rude midwives who shamed me for being too loud in labour, using a pillow to breastfeed for the first time, and pulled the blanket off me to expose my vagina while a male friend was in the room.
Known midwife was great. She would come to my house every appointment before and after birth.
I wanted a full water birth in the Indigenous womens room and I was denied because I had a “BIG” baby and coerced into an induction-mostly due to it being Christmas. A midwife explained “they like to induce around this time because DRs are on holidays.”