Marc Palmer

Don’t you just love democracy. Rather than voting FOR things we seem to always have to vote AGAINST them for some reason. Stupid decisions are made for us and then we have to fight tooth and nail to stop them coming into force.

The UK government is on the verge of destroying independent midwifery. There is an excellent article on the issues and about the unique services provided by independent midwives. It is nothing to do with wanting private care over state provided care, it is all about giving birth back to women and their families rather than medicalizing all births without a second thought.

Both of our daughters were born at home in our living room in the same "home made" birth pools, in a terraced house in a city center. Amazingly most people consider home birth to be something odd rather than something done the way it is "meant to be". Birth is not something to fear, and it certainly shouldn’t involve mandatory hospitalization!

We were lucky enough to have fantastic independent midwives to support us and provide the information and caring environment my wife needed to have completely intervention free healthy births.

Please sign the online petition on the Prime Minister’s website to try to stop this daft regulation killing off independent midwifery completely by requiring insurance that just doesn’t exist for midwives, as the risk is deemed too high and yet independent midwives in general have better outcomes than hospitalized births.

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