David Miller (physician)
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David Miller is a pioneer in the home birth
movement in Australia. He was the only rural doctor ever to practice home birth in Australia. As well as practicing at home, with a cohort of loyal midwives, Dr. Miller adapted the water-birth techniques of Michel Odent
to a hospital setting.
At one stage home birth became acceptable in Australia, but growing concerns and insurance-driven conservatism has once again driven home birth underground. Dr. Miller believes that this is a dangerous development as trained home-birth has turned to free-birth, which goes on without professional help and is a life threatening danger to both babies and mothers.
Dr. Miller has written a number of books and articles; "Birth At Home" Doubleday 1990, and is a regular contributor to "GP Speak" and "The Byron Shire Echo."
Home birth
A home birth in developed countries is an attended or an unattended childbirth in a non-clinical setting, typically using natural childbirth methods, that takes place in a residence rather than in a hospital or a birth centre, and usually attended by a midwife or lay attendant with expertise in...
movement in Australia. He was the only rural doctor ever to practice home birth in Australia. As well as practicing at home, with a cohort of loyal midwives, Dr. Miller adapted the water-birth techniques of Michel Odent
Michel Odent
Michel Odent is a retired medical doctor. He was born in France in 1930 and studied medicine at Paris University. He is known for his role in the natural childbirth movement and for promoting water birth...
to a hospital setting.
At one stage home birth became acceptable in Australia, but growing concerns and insurance-driven conservatism has once again driven home birth underground. Dr. Miller believes that this is a dangerous development as trained home-birth has turned to free-birth, which goes on without professional help and is a life threatening danger to both babies and mothers.
Dr. Miller has written a number of books and articles; "Birth At Home" Doubleday 1990, and is a regular contributor to "GP Speak" and "The Byron Shire Echo."