00:00after a birth she found traumatic Alicia Chapman wanted to deliver her second child at home good
00:09job I guess a lot of people automatically say oh at least your baby's healthy at the end of
00:15it but there's also a whole other human being that also matters she wanted support from a
00:20midwife but couldn't access one so she prepared to give birth without assistance from a health
00:26professional a practice that has health groups alarmed free birth has been linked to deaths
00:31including that of a Melbourne woman in September after complications were flagged during a hospital
00:37appointment Ms Chapman decided to labor in hospital the state government is developing a public home
00:45birth service allowing public midwives to work from women's homes and bringing Tasmania in line
00:52with the rest of Australia easing pressure on private midwives it's kept me awake at night if
00:58I have to say no to women especially if I hear rumors that she might be free birthing publicly funded home
01:05birth is not radical it's responsible it's evidence-based and it's time to trust women but
01:11the Australian Medical Association is alarmed when there's a medical emergency that involves a mother
01:18and a baby you have two lives at risk and you've got often within 10 minutes to deliver that baby
01:23the AMA instead wants to focus on improving the hospital experience that could involve a compassionate
01:30process after birth unpacking whether any trauma was preventable or due to urgent intervention and
01:37helping a mother make sense of it
01:39yeah but Alicia hopes a public home birth offering will empower women
01:45I still long for that um that birth experience I guess
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