David Miller is a pioneer in the home birth movement in Australia. He not only practiced at home, with a staff of midwives, but also adapted the water birth techniques of Michel Odent to a hospital setting.[1]

Critical reception to home birth

At one stage, home birth became acceptable in Australia. However, growing safety concerns and insurance-driven conservatism has driven home birth underground. Miller believes that this is a dangerous development, as trained home-birth has become free-birth, which is practiced without professional help and is a life-threatening danger to both babies and mothers.[2]

Miller is a regular contributor to "GP Speak" and "The Byron Shire Echo" and has written a book: Birth at Home, Doubleday Book Club (1990) ISBN 0-86824-422-8

References

  1. ↑ "The Wet Team (The Water-birth Enquiry Team) NRAHS (NSW Health Service – now protocol at Mullumbimby Hospital.) "
  2. ↑ "Preventing Death in Homebirth" Byron Shire Echo 24:05, 7 July 2009, (Australia)
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