Last night after Allisons basketball game the coach praised the two seniors on the team during a Seniors Night Party. It was fun to participate as a family. I find myself grasping these moments with all five children, knowing that our time together is winding down as they prepare to leave home. I made a little montage for Allison so she can always remember this fun evening.
Author Jenny Marie Hatch
Homebirth in Australia
For the past few months I have been hearing reports of an increasingly totalitarian approach to Homebirth in Australia.
One of the blessings of the web is that I have been able to make friends all over the world with those who share my lifestyle. From Veronika in the UK to Leilah in Canada to Sarah in Australia, these sisters who also live the Primal Mothering Life have been a source of inspiration and pure friendship as I have worked as a birth activist all of these years.
I have several friends on Facebook who live in Australia and I have been extremely alarmed by the stories that I have been hearing from them about what is going on.
Mothers are mobilizing. Several protests have already taken place, few have been covered by the Media, and the Politicians and AMA are stomping down hard on Homebirth in that great country.
The other day I emailed my friend Kym and asked if she would help partner in writing some articles for the internet that would help share the story of what has been happening and how the Mothers of Australia are taking to the streets to protest.
A huge nationwide Protest is being organized for next week
This is the email I had from Kym yesterday:
“I am willing to help anyway I can. I really appreciate that you want to get involved, we need that support and its much appreciated. It seems at the moment that the media are not picking up this issue much at all. At least, not in Victoria or too much in the mainstream media. I wonder if its the AMA keeping them quiet. I find it hard to believe more women/ people are not shocked about this or do they not realise how important this is? I agree this is a dangerous way of controlling women and controlling birth. I can see it will start with “standardising”/controlling homebirth then lead to making it a nightmare for freebirthers (some who have no other real choice) and then making hospital birth even more risky, because who keeps them honest?
At the moment it looks like there will be quite a few rallies happening next Thursday (18th) around Australia. We will be attending in Ballarat where Kevin Rudd PM will be attending. This is personally my 4th protest rally and they are all on this one issue. We have travelled and made our opinion known yet we are mostly ignored. It is very frustrating to say the least.
The AMA president Andrew Pesce is not particularly intelligent as he has no idea how to read studies or understand evidence based theories. He wants the public to believe that homebirth is dangerous and deadly. He turned an inconclusive study into his argument. I can get this information together if you like.All the best
Kym”
Kym has contacted several homebirthing mothers who are also planning to attend the protests. She has sent along my request for video, photos, signs, quotes, radio interviews, and information about this issue. I plan to write a series of articles to be posted on this blog and around the web at various locations to help shine the light of day on Birth Tyranny down under in Aussieland.
I am absolutely revolted that a pathetic attempt to control all aspects of childbirth is being played out in our modern world. And will do whatever is in my power to help these families retain their rights to holistic childbirth.
Jenny Hatch
PS You PharmaWhores who call yourselves journalists in Australia better cover that protest, and you better cover it well, or you will have ZERO credibility with the people.
If I were to have Dr. Amy Tooter MD on my Blog Talk Radio show, this is what I would ask…
Dr. Amy Tooter MD, The infamous OB who blogs at The Skeptical OB declined the offer to come on my Radio Show for a chat the other day.
In Response to my query…
“Wanna Debate on my Radio Show???”Â
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“No, but I’m happy to debate in any neutral print forum. I want people to be able to read and review the scientific papers as part of any debate.”
Amy seems really attached to her keyboard, which she has used for the past few years to dump on all of us who like to give birth to our babes at home.
I think of her as the kill joy of the Freebirth Movement. At every juncture of her time on the web, whenever ANYONE is talking about Unassisted Childbirth or even just Homebirth, she arrives on the scene with her so called facts, figures, arrogance, and insight. Her all consuming voice cropping up any time birth is discussed long ago convinced me that she was just a Blogging sock puppet created by the Pharma Companies and that “She” is in fact ten guys on a lap top somewhere in New York City who work full time writing her blog and posting her crap all over the web.
Now, why would someone like her be created to “debate” and discredit Homebirth?
Most OB’s are very busy people, and the few Obstetricians in my circle of life, including my beloved Family Doctor who delivered my third child, don’t care where I give birth. They might be somewhat alarmed and concerned that I give birth at home alone, but none have ever suggested that I am a bad mother for this choice, and none have ever tossed out the idea that I should have my children stolen from me for “medical neglect” as Amy so regularly does on her blog, should something go wrong during a botched homebirth.
These reasonable doctors understand the risks of hospital birth, heck, they watch it every day…and they also understand that the hospital environment is not for every Mother.
Yet, Amy goes so far beyond that reasonable stance, pushing for the banning of all Lay Midwifery, and risking just about every mother out of home birth.
If “she” was to come on my radio show, the first question I would ask her is this…
“Why do you care so much where I give birth?”
And then I would ask:
“What is it about me and my lifestyle that is such a huge concern to you and your worldview?
I’ve thought about “Toots” alot since the summer of 2007 when I spent so much time debating the ten guys who play her on the internet.
And the best way to describe her stance is to compare “her” to the many people throughout my life who have tried to kill my Faith in Jesus Christ. Throughout my childhood and teens and especially as a Young Mother rubbing shoulders with other women of Faith who were Homeschooling, I have come in contact with many, many people who were deeply distressed about my membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
From teachers in the public schools to high school friends who had been indoctrinated in Anti Mormon Literature, to the various Moms who attended homeschool support groups and prayer meetings, the overwhelming concern these people have had for my soul and eternal salvation has been a drumbeat of questions, queries, and qualms about my personal spiritual beliefs.
Since I was a young child I have had others express so much concern for my soul, that it has just been a pattern in my life that when it comes out that I’m one of “those Mormons” the various hyperbolic stressing that is immediately directed at me and my family is almost funny.Â
Almost, because no one likes to be rejected for their beliefs, and especially when I was younger, it hurt to have people reject me because of my spiritual beliefs.
I have just ignored the concerns and keep attempting to live up to the covenants and promises I made at Baptism and in the Temple. And I try not to get too upset when new friendships end and relationships are strained from this unfair judgement and concern.
But that overwhelming concern for the state of my soul from the many people in my life has been nothing compared to the campaign waged against homebirthers by Big Pharma Pill Pushers who have an overconcern for the physical lives of mothers and babes (And their own profit stream) and an underconcern for the short and long term effects of Medical Birth on the spiritual, emotional, financial, and especially physical wellbeing of Families.Â
The pharma whores like Dr. Amy Love to scream about homebirth death, but they never seem to talk about hospital birth morbidity. Morbidity as defined by any medical intervention that leads to damage in the Mother or the Baby beyond normal birth discomfort. I’m talking about things like post partum infections, paralysis, fourth degree cuts on the body, fistulas, episiotomies that won’t heal, forceps injuries to the mother and the baby, and psychological trauma etc etc…
The many blogs that have been created to discredit us and fudge the data and the thousands of chat room trolls who post all over the web trying to shut up and shout down those of us who are activists and attempting to share good information with families are evidence that the Pharma companies are addicted to their revenue stream and want NO DISSENT from the type of tortuous birth they sell so effectively to We The People.
The ten guys who plan Dr. Amy Tooters MD on the web have used every rhetorical trick in the book to present home birth in the worst possible light. Yet oddly enough, they have not taken things to the next step and given her a voice on the web. NO Talk Radio Interviews, NO Television appearances, NO pictures of her family and only one little picture of a person claiming to be Toots.
This is odd because most Bloggers who show the type of passion she consistently evidences on “her” blog use every new media tool to promote the message they are trying to share; You Tubes, Blog Talk Radio, Interviews on Radio and Television, etc etc..
Perhaps the PR Whores who play her on the internet believe that with The Education Establishment, Movies, Television, News, Music, Print, and Radio covered so effectively with the “All Medical Birth All the Time message” in every possible education and propaganda format possible, they did not need to take it to the next step with Ducktor Amy Toots MD and give her a real voice and a face on the web.
The thing is sock puppetry on the web works for a time, and then BAM, in one second you can be exposed.
I’ve been doing some research and the only person in my search who has claimed to interview Dr. Amy in person is the Journalist Jennifer Block who wrote the book Pushed.Â
Since we all know that one of the most effective tools the Medical Profession uses to keep the money rolling in is Controlled Opposition, lately, I have been thinking that Jennifer was hired to write a fake book, interview a fake internet personality, and has played the role of useful idiot on her Blog on the web to help the cause of confusion and obfuscation around Childbirth Choices.
Time will tell. We are fast approaching the day when no more will those who have lied and used fraud and deception to sell products and services to consumers be able to deceive and controll the message as the Medical Profession has coercively controlled health care and especially birth for the past hundred years in our society.
Change is here and funny enough, its not the top down world government control every aspect of: humanity, population, health, energy, trade, fascistic, collectivist, united nations, and world government socialistic behemoth, that President Obama has been pushing for the past twelve months.
Nope. All indicators are pointing to the fact that…
Freedom is going to triumph over World Medical Tyranny and Slavery!
God Bless the People and Let FREEDOM RING!
Gary Null interviews Eileen Dannemann and Joyce Piccolino H1N1 Causes Miscarriage
H1N1 Vaccine adverse reactions: Â
Miscarriages, still births & other complications during pregnancy due to the H1N1 vaccine
Eileen Dannemann: Director of the National Coalition of Organized Women, a nonprofit activist organization addressing critical health issues. Eileen investigates the health risks of depleted uranium, GMO foods, adverse effects of vaccines, & psychiatric drugs given to children.  Her organization is currently collecting data & counseling women who have experienced miscarriage, still birth &/or complications after the administration of the H1N1 & seasonal flu vaccines. To date, there has been no major public announcement on any media source telling the story we are about to hear today.
Joyce Piccolino: a registered nurse practicing in New Jersey who was encouraged by medical authorities to receive the H1N1 vaccine & subsequently miscarried her unborn child.
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