Some exciting news has just published by ABC News. This adds to the growing trend of publicly funded homebirth programs in New South Wales. New South Wales Health Minister Reba Meagher has announced a new home birthing service and family care centre for Shellharbour Hospital.
The family care centre will offer prenatal services and post-discharge midwifery support, such as help with breast feeding and sleep management.
The home birthing service will see publicly funded midwives offer continuity of care through a pregnant mother's labour, birth and postnatal care.
Ms Meagher says the new centre will add to the range of choices available to women in the Shellharbour region.
"This will mean those women who want to give birth at home will be able to do that with the support of a specially trained midwife. Increasingly women are choosing to have children at home," she said.
The home birth announcement has been welcomed by the New South Wales Midwives Association.
To read the complete article go to www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/13/2273925.htm
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