Midwifery academics within the Collective for Midwifery, Child and Family Health have a strong record of work investigating aspects of publicly-funded homebirth, including three doctoral theses.
- Associate Professor Christine Catling’s PhD 'The influences on women who choose a publicly funded homebirth in Australia' explored the influences on women who chose this model of care.
- Associate Professor Deborah Fox’s PhD 'Transfer from planned homebirth to hospital: views and experiences of women, midwives and obstetricians' investigated processes and interactions involved in the transfer of a woman to hospital during labour, from planned homebirth.
- Dr Rebecca Coddington’s PhD 'Midwives' experiences of providing publicly-funded homebirth in Australia' explored midwives’ experiences of providing publicly-funded homebirth in Australia.
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Other work in this field includes a review of the first 100 women having a publicly-funded homebirth at St George Hospital, Sydney, and a national 6-year review of maternal and neonatal outcomes, and an analysis of women’s confidence to have a homebirth.
Read the research (links open external sites)
- Coddington, R., Fox, D., Scarf, V., & Catling, C. (2023). Getting kicked off the program: Women’s experiences of antenatal exclusion from publicly-funded homebirth in Australia. Women and Birth : Journal of the Australian College of Midwives, 36(1), e179–e185.
- The influences on women who choose a publicly-funded homebirth in Australia
- Birthplace in Australia: Processes and interactions during the intrapartum transfer of women from planned homebirth to hospital
- Birthplace in Australia: Antenatal preparation for the possibility of transfer from planned home birth
- Experiences of Women Planning a Home Birth Who Require Intrapartum Transfer to Hospital: A Metasynthesis of the Qualitative Literature
- From hospital to home: Australian midwives’ experiences of transitioning into publicly-funded homebirth programs
- The St. George Homebirth Program: An evaluation of the first 100 booked women
- Publicly funded homebirth in Australia: a review of maternal and neonatal outcomes over 6 years
- Multiparous women's confidence to have a publicly-funded homebirth: A qualitative study
Learn about the National Publicly-funded home birth Consortium