Australian Private Midwives Association: listing of sites for Australia's maternal and perinatal statistics

Friday, December 31, 2010

listing of sites for Australia's maternal and perinatal statistics

National
AIHW National Perinatal Statistics Unit
The most recent general report is Australia's Mothers and Babies 2008

ACT
Maternal and Perinatal Health Series 45

New South Wales
2007 Mothers and Babies

For 2007, there were 144 planned homebirths across NSW with 31 planned homebirth/hospital admissions, so a transfer rate across the state of 21.5%. The highest homebirth rate was North Coast NSW (Port Macquarie to Tweed Heads) with 44 planned homebirths but it also had the highest reported transfer rate of 25.5%. This rate included the Natural Birth Education and Resource Centre (now closed) which registered its births as homebirths and transfer as homebirth transfers, not birth centre births.

There were also 490 babies Born Before Arrival (BBA) which may include some babies who were born unassisted but went to hospital for their paperwork.

Queensland
Perinatal Statistics Queensland

Northern Territory
Mothers and Babies 2006

Western Australia
Perinatal Statistics in WA 2007

South Australia
Pregnancy Outcome in South Australia 2008

Tasmania
[report not found at http://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/ ]

Victoria
Publications of the CCOPMM
also, see Maternity and Neonatal Performance Indicators.
Further summaries of home birth, and discussion at this blog.

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WHO ARE WE?

The Australian Private Midwives Association represents midwives in private practice. The association is focused on the safety of women, the ability of women to access quality midwifery care across Australia and the partnerships between women and midwives. APMA supports women’s choice in maternity options within a framework of quality and safety and believes in women being able to access midwives in all settings. APMA unites all midwives seeking to provide continuity of care for women.

APMA strives to provide midwives in private practice with information relevant to their practice and advocacy in the political process.

Enquiries:
Joy Johnston joy@aitex.com.au
Marie Heath NSW and National 0407 266004
Clare Lane (Vic) 0416 130219

APMA POSITION STATEMENT on PLANNED HOME BIRTHS WITH A MIDWIFE

1. We support home birth with a midwife in attendance for women who have uncomplicated labours. 2. We support and adopt the International Confederation of Midwives’ (ICM) Definition of the Midwife (2011), which is foundational to all midwifery practice, including homebirth. 3. We support the right of every woman to access a midwife as the primary maternity caregiver who works in partnership with the woman throughout the episode of care, who is able to be the responsible professional in attendance at the birth either at home or hospital, and who is able to make appropriate referral and transfer of care when required. 4. We support the right of a midwife to practise privately in a fee-for-service or funded relationship with the client, or to take up employment. 5. We support only those regulatory restrictions that are able to pass the ‘public interest’ test: “How does this promote health and wellbeing in the mother and baby?” 6. We support an expectation of equity, including equal pay for equal work throughout a midwife’s scope of practice. Midwives who provide primary maternity care are entitled to the same public funding, the same opportunity to charge a fee-for-service, the same access to hospital referral, and publicly supported indemnity insurance, as medical practitioners providing the same maternity services. 7. We support processes by which midwives are able to gain experience and mentoring in order to commence and demonstrate competence in homebirth practice. 8. We support seamless and reliable processes by which midwives are able to make hospital bookings for women planning homebirth, and arrange transfer to the hospital in a timely way when needed.