Birth & Midwifery in Australia
RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AND PRACTITIONERS

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Midwifery Today Country Contact

Jan Robinson had a career in Midwifery Education for many years then branched out into independent practice in the early 1990s, attending homebirths mostly in the southern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, where she lived. She now maintains a small clinical practice in the inner Sydney city area while continuing to be involved in midwifery education on a casual basis. She is National Coordinator for the Australian Society of Independent Midwives. Jan's additional projects for the New Year 2008 are to complete writing her booklet on “Setting up an Independent Midwifery Practice in Australia,” revitalise the Australian Society of Independent Midwives Web site and to meet with an many like-minded home birth midwives as possible at the ICM in Glasgow. You may view her Web site as listed below.

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Birth/Midwifery

• Homebirth Access Sydney
• The Maternity Coalition
• Caesarean Awareness Recovery Education Support—CARES SA
• Birth Rites—Healing After Caesarean, Inc.
• Australian Society of Independent Midwives
• Jan Robinson—Midwifey Practitioner
• Melbourne Midwifery—Robyn Thompson
• Homebirth: A Midwife Mutiny—Lisa Barrett, Independent Midwife, South Australia
• Joy Johnston—Midwife
• Diane Stubbs—Midwife
• Jane Palmer—Midwife
• Women's Information Service
• Women's Health Victoria
• Australian Doula's E-Group
• Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond
• Doulas Australia
• Birth International
• Homebirth Australia
• Home Midwifery Association (QLD) Inc
• The New South Wales Midwives Association
• Australian Women's Health Network (AWHN)

Parenting/Breastfeeding

• Earth Mamas Web—Australia's Natural Parenting Community
• La Leche League—Australia Chapter
• Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond
• Natural Birth Education and Resource Centre
• Australian Breastfeeding Association

Education

• The International College of Spiritual Midwifery (I.C.S.M.)
• Australian College of Midwives, Inc.
• The Joanna Briggs Institute for Evidence Based Nursing & Midwifery
• The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
• Royal College of Nursing
• Capers Birth and Midwifery Books
• Ace Graphics Birth and Midwifery Books

Political

• What Women Want—The political party for Australian women