Home birth awareness
A public meeting will be the Christchurch highlight of National Home Birth Week which will start on Monday.
Likely effects of the proposed Nurses' Amendment Bill on New Zealand midwifery will be one main topic of the meeting at Aldersgate on Monday evening. Mrs Ann Hercus, member of Parliament for Lyttelton, will lead a panel discussion titled, "Birth options — are they being threatened?” Other speakers will include a doctor and domiciliary midwife. The meeting will start at 7.30 p.m. A Christchurch spokeswoman for the New Zealand Home Birth Association, Ms Alison Locke, said many women still did not know they had an alternative to hospital delivery. The aim of the week was to increase public awareness of home births.
Branch members had also arranged displays in Cathedral Square and suburban shopping malls during the week.
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Press, 21 October 1983, Page 4
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