so glad your still pushing for your homebirth Eternal.......x

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Originally Posted by Rachiebaby24 so glad your still pushing for your homebirth Eternal.......x

Thank you Rach I will get there...

I am just so glad to have found this thread. The support on here is fab, and Bournefree has gone out of her way to help me with this. If she had a donate now section at the bottom of her post I would have clicked it

Bournefree - That post is AMAZING! It is great there are such strong women on this group!

ER - Keep pushin hun, GOOD LUCK!!! I am sooo pleased you are going forward and fighting for what is your right!!

Here's a FB group I am a member of for anyone interested:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21515708855

I am currently discussing ER's HB/BMI issue on there with someone......

Rach - maybe she had PMT... Anyway I'm glad it was a decent outcome for you hun or once the BnB Home Birth Mafia were done at Kingston Hospital, we'd all be off round your gaff to sort them out too!!

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Originally Posted by Mervs Mum Here's a FB group I am a member of for anyone interested: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21515708855 I am currently discussing ER's HB/BMI issue on there with someone......

I requested to join, and BNB home birth mafia.....

If your health authority is refusing to offer you a home birth service, the Secretary of State needs to know that women in your area are not being supported in their childbirth choices. Catherine McCormick is responsible for midwifery services and has specifically asked for women having difficulty arranging a home birth to contact her, as apparently the Department of Health is looking for evidence on this matter. Address letters to Catherine McCormick, Department of Health, Room 419, Wellington House, 133-135 Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8UG or email catherine.mccormick@doh.gsi.gov.uk

There is a load of stuff on this page Read about the midwifes responsibility bit??
http://www.homebirth.org.uk/law.htm
Tried some searches about legal positions of local authorities etc...
ER didn't know your exact authority but knew London, you could try the hospital policies for your hospital and their standards of care statment all can be found on their internet site or can be requested direct from them.
Print some stuff off and go armed with it. Basically tell them their are no valid health reasons why you cannot have a home birth and maybe if they could meet you half way and arrange for a home birth initiallyand suggest that you will agree that you will willingly transfer at such a stage where the midwife feels there could be a risk to you or LO if you carried on at home..(which is what we all do really) It may be an olive branch to them..... failing that it's election time soon threaten to go to the press get the MP for the opposite party in your area on the go.

From the above site
It is highly unlikely that the Secretary of State for Health would ever consider it 'appropriate' that a health authority refused to provide a midwife service for home births. If a mother who had met with such a blanket refusal was prepared to pursue matters, presumably the Secretary of State for Health could be asked to intervene.

It may help to complain to your Member of Parliament, and send copies of the letter to Yvette Cooper at The Department of Health, Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, London SW1A 2NL. Alternatively, you can email the Department of Health on dhmail@doh.gsi.gov.uk
Good luck If I come accross anything else I'll post

Thanks ever so much for finding this information out Deej! I have bookmarked this page now also, I am going to make my way down the list of things to do from now. Good job, I started this process early..it would have been too late if I had left it till 36-37 weeks.

Just tried to email this lady and got an automated reply to say not delivered.... will look into it and try to find another email address for her.

ER, good on you for fighting for it, they are full of shit!