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Bernadette Lack is a midwife with 20 years of experience across large tertiary hospitals, Aboriginal communities, international aid, public homebirth and birth debriefing. She holds a Masters of Public Health and is trained as a somatic therapist. She is the creator of Reconnected Birthing™, a somatic and systemic methodology for birth workers. Through her business Core and Floor Restore, she works with practitioners and families across training, mentorship, and direct client care.
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Clare Davison is a midwife, educator, researcher, and passionate advocate for women's rights in childbirth with more than 18 years of experience supporting women to birth at
home. Her lifelong commitment to homebirth was shaped through the privilege of apprenticing with renowned Australian homebirth midwife Theresa Clifford, an experience that continues to influence her practice, teaching, and advocacy today. As the first privately practising midwife to obtain hospital admitting rights in Western Australia, Clare has spent her career working to expand birth choices for women and support midwives to practise to their full scope. She remains a strong advocate for every woman's right to birth where she chooses, with the people she chooses, and to access continuity of midwifery care. Alongside her clinical and academic work, Clare is dedicated to passing traditional midwifery knowledge and skills to future generations of midwives. Through research, education, and advocacy, she works to protect and promote physiological birth, including breech birth, and to strengthen maternity care systems that trust women and birth, respect choice, and support and facilitate physiological birth. At the heart of her work is a deep belief that women, babies, and midwives thrive when birth is approached as a normal physiological life event and when informed choice is genuinely respected. |
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Jessie Johnson-Cash is a midwife, educator, researcher, (aspiring comedian) and homebirth mother. She has worked as a homebirth midwife as well as in public and private hospitals. She cares deeply about how women experience pregnancy, birth and motherhood. Jessie is passionate about physiological birth, autonomy and maternity care that centres, trusts and listens to women. She brings with her both professional and personal experience, along with a willingness to question the way things are done. With honesty, warmth and humour she initiates conversations that can be uncomfortable, challenging and yet vitally important.
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