This is the first episode of Homebirth Around The World. A series where I chat with homebirth midwives and they share how homebirth works in their area. From cost, culture, insurance, becoming a homebirth midwife and working as one, this series aims to try and dy-mystify homebirth and raise awareness for homebirth.
In this episode, I chat with Lucy from @lucybuddingwood who shares her journey to becoming an indepedent private midwife in England and how homebirth works generally in England. We chat a lot about insurance and the challenges in the system - quite different to home we in Australia may perceive it!
Below are some resources worth checking out!
Homebirth, NHS midwifery, regulation and unions.
NHS Homebirth: Where to give birth NHS Guide, Birthrights Guide to Choice in place of birth, Homebirth UK (old site, gives some historical background to that 1990s/2000s surge in homebirth popularity
What is an Independent Midwife? NCT Guide
Zest Midwives: Membership for Independent Midwives to access intrapartum insurance.
RCM: Midwives' Union
NMC: UK Nursing and Midwifery Regulator
NMC guide to indemnity insurance
Albany Midwifery Practice: Overview via AIMS
Closure: How the flagship Albany Midwifery Practice, at the heart of its South London community, was demonised and dismantled Paperback – 11 May 2023
ARM: Association of Radical Midwives
Midwifery Matters (quarterly member's magazine of the Association of Radical Midwives, this is the magazine I Edit.)
ARM Archive on Homebirth (ARM member's archived discussion thread on homebirth, again this was probably mostly from 2000s/2010s.
#saynotobullyinginmidwifery Report, via ARM. This is a book by ARM members on bullying in midwifery and gives a really good insight into NHS midwives' experience within the UK. It isn't specifically about homebirth, but it goes really deep into the culture!!
Lucy's website www.lucybuddingwood.com
Connect with me, Elsie, the host :)
www.birthingathome.com.au
@birthingathome_apodcast
@homebirth.doula_birthingathome
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