The World Health Organisation recommends that all hospitals should provide statistics on their outcomes and services so that people in their area can use this information if they want in making choices about where to go for their health care.

Birth Matters SA and the Maternity Coalition SA Branch have compiled this guide to help maternity consumers in South Australia make more genuinely-informed decisions about their care for pregnancy, labour and birth.

The WHO recommends that all hospitals should provide stats and mostly in SA they have declined. I think that tells us something pretty significant about the state of play at the hospitals here and it’s not good. Are people unaware of these facts or are they just ignoring them thinking that they don’t factor in there. When deciding when and where to birth check out the facts and figures, ring up and ask the difficult questions and when you get palmed off. then do the only thing left. Plan a good safe homebirth.

When women interview me they ask all about me from when and where I trained to how many births I’ve been at, problems people have complications, my competence in dealing with stuff is questioned and my ability to give women what they want totally scrutinised. Just as it should be. I have never heard of anyone ask an Obstetrician where he trained or how he can give women what they want for their birth. Let alone ask them questions about their section rate or their overlying philosophy of care.

Get out there people and check the facts out for yourselves hospitals in SA are messing up birth on a daily basis. Doesn’t anyone care about this?

There is a homebirth information evening on 11th April to be run by Birth matters please ring Tania on 83394074 to book a place now.