Midwives Naturally is a Melbourne based midwifery group practice offering a range of services such as pregnancy care, birth attendance, birth education, post baby care and lactation consultancy. Please take a look around our website and contact us if you have any queries.
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Midwives Naturally is updating the website so keep coming back to check out exciting new developments. Key topics will include:
Models of care - why choose homebirth and safety of homebirth
Promoting physiological, normal birth and reducing the cascade of intervention.
News flash - latest evidenced based information gathered from around the world.
Lots more birth stories in easy to find categories.
Gallery full of pictures that will inspire you.
Recommended books & DVD's.
Regular newsletters
Regular Campaign information
New fee schedule: Due to the new regulation requirements, Midwives Naturally and all privately practicing midwives have to ensure that we have PII for antenatal and postnatal care. Labour and Birth insurance is still unavailable and an exemption is in place until 2013. Due to the increased costs, we have relunctantly decided to increase our fees after 3 years. The fee will apply to clients birthing from January 2011. Jennie & Nicola are now eligible midwives and have Medicare provider numbers. Currently, Clare, Mal & Helen are applying for eligibility.
At the moment, there is not a PBS course for midwives so we are unable to prescribe medications but hopefully, this course will become available in the near future and we look forward to being able to undertake this course. Midwives Naturally and current clients have obtained collaboration arrangements with a few GP Obstetricians. Please ask your midwife for details. If you are interested in the Medicare rebate, asking your local GP Obstetrician for this collaboration agreement will assist you in this process. Please visit the Maternity Coalition & Homebirth Australia websites to follow the campaign.
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Medicare rebates for antenatal & post natal midwifery care
Clare, Jennie & Nicola are the first of the Midwives Naturally group practice to be appointed 'Eligible' Midwives by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. This is the registration body that governs Midwives, and means that we are entitled to be identified as eligible midwives. Mal and Helen are in the process of completing the eligibility requirements.
The following notations have been published on the national public register
'An eligible midwife competent to provide pregnancy, labour, birth and post natal care and qualified to provide associated services and order diagnostic investigations required for midwifery practice, in accordance with relevant State and Territory legislation'.
We have also obtained Medicare provider numbers so that pregnant women can obtain medicare rebates for the antenatal and post natal care. Midwives Naturally have professional indemnity insurance (PII) for antenatal and postnatal care. Homebirth is not covered by PII. The government have given self employed midwives an exemption for the homebirth component until July 2013.
The next step to obtain this rebate, to ask a GP with a diploma in Obstetrics or an Obstetrician to sign a collaboration agreement with us.
Copy and paste the link below into your browser to obtain a PDF of the Medicare Support for Midwives and what it can mean for women and their families
Midwives Naturally look forward to working more closely with Doctors, assisting women & their family to obtain their Medicare rebates, which will give greater access & choices with their chosen models of maternity care.
Shared care at The Women's hospital & Mercy Hospital
Jennie is now a shared care provider at The Women's and The Mercy hospital. So, if you're pregnant, and intend to have your baby at this hospital but would like to have continuity of midwife care throughout your pregnancy, then this may be the answer. To explore your options, feel free to contact Jennie.
Please note Midwives Naturally, like all independent midwives world-wide, are unable to obtain indemnity insurance. Not because of anything we have done, midwives are simply too small in number to create a pool of funds to cover any potential payout.
