Homebirth Queensland

🚨Women in ADF moving to Townsville 🚨 have BUPA ADF funded access to continuity of private midwifery care available with options for home or hospital birth.

Please contact Georgina for more information

[email protected]
0429 474 555
www.mummagmidwifery.com

Let’s stand proud together 💜
Share an Instagram story of what merch you own and tag
Why not take this opportunity to share your homebirth story with our audience🥳

Reels as collaborators encouraged 😍

Purchasing HBQ merchandise directly from The Homebirth Queensland website is an incredible way to advocate for home birth in Queensland!

The first Qld Public Homebirth Program is live!!!

Queensland's first ever publicly funded homebirth program is now live on the Sunshine Coast. 🎉

A team of obstetricians, midwives, medical staff, and mums have played a major role in developing the service that will now give parents more choice when it comes to their birthing options.

For the past several months, the team has been planning the new service and systems testing using simulations. This is to ensure our frontline health staff know how best to support women birthing at home and to treat any complications that arise with mother and baby in a timely and effective way.

You can express your interest in a homebirth by talking to your GP or sending an email to [email protected].

Congratulations to the team for developing this Queensland-first service that is set to provide more options and support for women and their families to make informed choices about their maternity care! ❤️

This exciting new service is funded by the Putting Patient's First 2024-25 plan, which aims to provide more maternity care closer to home, for Queensland women.

Via Sunshine Coast Health

📷: Ali and Odette – two of the incredible Clinical Project Midwives supporting publicly funded homebirths on the Sunshine Coast.

What to expect from a homebirth circle 💜

CONNECTION THROUGH STORYTELLING
Everyone and all stories are welcome 💜

Homebirth stories you may hear include:

💜 Homebirth with and without midwives
💜 Premature birth in hospitals
💜 Transfer for pain relief
💜 Birth without a care provider
💜 Breech Homebirth with a doula

And the list continues 💪

☀️ photos shared with permission from hbq cairns homebirth circle attendees ☀️

If you are in this photo please comment what you love about hbq circles so we can tag you 😍

ATTENTION 💜💜
HBQ is seeking Instagram reel collaborators!

If you enjoy sharing Instagram reels about birthing at home and believe your unique perspective/experiences will enrich our platform, please help us spread awareness by adding as a collaborator post.

We believe that your contribution will inspire others who are considering or interested in home birth.

As you may know, Home Birth Queensland is ran by volunteers and this is an amazing way you can help advocate with us!

Thank you for being apart of this exciting opportunity!

To ensure your post is approved, please adhere to social media collaborator guidelines stated below. These will also be featured as a highlight on HBQ Instagram profile for future reference.

We look forward to seeing your amazing content!

Social Media Collaborator Guidelines:

💜Create reels that showcase positive aspects of home birth, highlighting its benefits and experiences.
💜Maintain a neutral, non-biased perspective in your content.
💜Ensure that all individuals featured in the reel have given explicit permission to be featured on Home Birth Queensland's social media platforms.
State “people featured in the post give permission to be shared” in the caption.
💜Respect privacy and confidentiality by not sharing any identifying information without consent.
💜Keep content appropriate and respectful, adhering to Instagram's community guidelines.
💜Include the hashtag in the caption of your reel.
💜Add as a collaborator at the time of posting to ensure your reel is featured on our Instagram page.

Queensland Homebirth Community Circles Available Near You 💪

We provide a safe space to connect and empower birthing choices

Everyone WELCOME!🫶
Parents, Grandparents, Children & Birth Workers ✨🙌

are a group of mothers/midwives working towards real choice in childbirth. 💪

We view birthing as a “family” rather than a “medical” experience and celebrate our babies’ “births” rather than “deliveries”.

Comment your friends who might be interested in attending 🙏🙌
All event times and locations are featured on Facebook.

Cairns professionals 👇

Welcome to this LIVE OMP Experience - (Limited to 30 spaces)

*****This program has also been approved by ACM for 8.75 CPD

In this experiential full day and hands-on Optimal Maternal Positioning (OMP) workshop, participants will discover the tools and strategies to promote an easier, shorter, more relaxed and comfortable birth for your clients!

OMP focuses on bringing alignment and mobility within the mother’s pelvis, enabling the baby’s cardinal movements to facilitate labor progress.
Please purchase tickets via Optimal Maternal Positioning (ibirthprofessionals.com)

OMP - "LIVE CAIRNS" - Workshop Calling all birth professionals!!! Join us for an experiential and hands-on Optimal Maternal Positioning (OMP) workshop in Cairns!

🌟 Attention all homebirth midwives in Australia 🌟

Reminder for today's webinar consultation. Please DM us if you have not yet received the link.

Long awaited Qld PFHB guidelines. You can send this to any hospital and ask them to commence a working group to implement.

www.health.qld.gov.au

Why was this email not sent to maternity consumer groups or homebirth advocacy groups?

Why has harmful policy been announced without consumer or private midwifery consultation?

Does the government support women’s rights to choose bodily autonomy?

Does the government want to widen the gap for First Nations women?

Why are women with disability still being excluded from policy that doesn’t adhere to the disability discrimination act?

Remove the phrase ‘low risk’ from legislation or watch the freebirth rate continue to rise.

Maternity consumers have never been so disgusted by an out of touch government budget night announcement.

Woohoo

36th Annual Homebirth Australia Conference | Humanitix Get tickets on Humanitix - 36th Annual Homebirth Australia Conference hosted by Homebirth Australia. Surfair Events Centre, Marcoola, 923 David Low Way, Marcoola QLD 4564, Australia. Saturday 9th November 2024. Find event information.

Are you interested in finding out more about your options for giving birth on the Sunshine Coast?
We invite you to come and celebrate International Day of the Midwife.

This free community event is open to anyone who would like to learn more about our local maternity providers and the midwifery services they offer.

Join us for an informative morning which will include a Q&A panel (with representatives from our local public and private hospitals and Homebirth Queensland), the opportunity to chat with many of our local private practice midwives, as well as learn more about the midwifery programs offered here at UniSC including the CONNECT Program which links midwifery students with birthing women.

Morning tea will be provided; for catering purposes, please register your attendance using this link https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1213062

THIS OPPORTUNITY HAS NOW CLOSED.

🌟 Join us in shaping the future of maternity services in Queensland! 🌟

Are you passionate about improving maternity care and ensuring safe birthing experiences for all Queenslanders? Here's your chance to make a real difference!

Clinical Excellence Queensland, within Queensland Health, is establishing a Maternity Consultative Forum to guide the implementation of key programs, including the $42 million rural and regional birthing services budget measure.

As a consumer representative, your voice matters. Your recent firsthand experience with maternity services will ensure that initiatives are consumer-focused, addressing challenges and barriers faced by families across Queensland.

Apply now to be a part of this vital initiative and advocate for better maternity care for all Queenslanders!

https://engage.hcq.org.au/maternity-consultation-forum
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