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Year 2003
Thirty
Year Trends in
a Large Irish Obstetric Cohort
March 2003 Volume 96 N0 3
O'Herlihy Colm, Mahony R
To evaluate sequential trends in respect of parity, maternal age,
gestation at delivery and birthweight in a large cohort of the
national birth total during the period 1968 to 1998....READ full report
Perinatal
Stats 1999 - January 2003
became available in January 2003
"1999 saw an increase in the number of home births attended
by independent domiciliary midwives. In 1990, there were 155 such
births, rising to 246 in 1999 representing a 59% increase over
the period."
READ the full report
Year 2002
Expert
Group on Acute Maternity Services Reference Report
December 2002
Year 2001
Home
Births
24th May 2001
Southern Health Board
A project launched in Cork on Friday 25th May 2001 will offer
Cork women the option of having their babies at home. Please click here to download Domiciliary Midwifery Pilot Project information leaflet
(512 kb).
Medicine & History
Community
Midwife Margaret Breen
July/August 2001 Volume 94 No 7
Community Midwife Margaret Breen nee Cowman (1884-1975) delivered
over two thousand babies in the homes of central Co. Wexford.
She usually did this without help from any other qualified person.
A doctor attended at 618 of her cases but this was often because
the woman was a private patient.
Year 2000
Attitude
to home birth in an
antenatal population at the Rotunda Hospital
October 2000 Volume 93 No 7
Author : O'Donovan Maura,
Connolly Geraldine, Byrne PJ, Zainal S
195 Women attending the antenatal clinics at the hospital were
interviewed, about their attitudes to home birth using a standardised
questionnaire. One hundred and seventy one women (88%) said that
they would not favour a home birth in a subsequent delivery, 19
(9.5%) said that they would consider a home birth in a subsequent
pregnancy and the remaining 5 (2.5%) were unsure. Although the
majority of women attending the Rotunda Hospital would not consider
a home birth, approximately 10% of the sample population would
consider this in their next pregnancy. This pilot study indicates
that there may be a demand for home birth in patients attending
our hospital and further evaluation of this need is warranted....READ full report
Year 1999
Sheila Kitzinger's Letter from Europe
Midwives
on Trial
"There are signs that a midwife witch-hunt may have started
in some European countries. Familiar in the USA, this is new to
modern Europe where midwives are the foundation of all maternity
care. In Britain some 80% of babies are delivered by midwives.
Obstetricians rely on them completely, not only for normal births
but to assist with difficult deliveries and Cesarean sections.
It would be impossible for obstetricians to work without the support
of midwives."....READ full article
Year 1996
Office
of the Ombudsman
Social Welfare/Health Boards/Health Case Summaries(Annual Report
1996)
Provision of Facilities for Home Births
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