Thanks for tuning into today’s conversation. What I wanted to address today was something that I have seen around “the price of freebirth” piece written by the ABC and add more to the conversation as I feel some very important points were not discussed. 

In this episode I chat about 

✔️why freebirth isn’t on the rise but rather we are able to share it more easily and freely these days 

✔️looking into stats from the most recent Australia mother and babies’s report and how they are reflecting the current hospital system failing women  

✔️the hospital has its own interest at heart and has put in place policies and procedures to avoid being liable of being sued 

✔️women in the early 1900’s birthing at home as hospital was ONLY for sick people 

✔️trying to find alternate birthing options for women who don’t want to birth in an unfamiliar environment with rigid protocols and guidelines 

✔️women’s options if they don’t want to birth in a hospital: home birth, publicly funded home birth program or freebirth 

✔️lack of access to midwifery related care when living rurally or remotely (i.e. no private midwife available, maternity ward of hospital closed) 

✔️is there a deeper agenda for the release of the article? Is there a wish for the doula industry to be regulated?

Brittany’s episode https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/cuppa-with-a-doula/id1663704129?i=1000647856082 

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