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To our valued Birth House community,

We would like to share with you a very significant change to our services as we move into 2022.  After much soul searching, we have decided it’s time to close the doors to our physical building of The Birth House Geelong.  We have had the most incredible season operating from our beautiful premises in McKillop Street and are so grateful for the thriving community maternity hub it so quickly grew into, and has been for so many years.  The driving reason for this change is the constant shortage of Endorsed Private Practice Midwives that despite years of trying, we cannot seem to change.  We have an increasingly growing and long wait list of families wanting homebirths and Birth Retreat births, with not enough Private Practice Midwives available to support them. Therefore the purpose of The Birth House in providing our Birth Retreat as an alternative space for birthing outside the hospital is no longer logical or viable.  As with so many other businesses and services in our community, Covid19 has also had a significant financial impact.  

The good news is that homebirth midwifery in Geelong, Bellarine, Surfcoast, Golden Plains and Colac regions will continue well after our physical Birth House is closed.  The Private Practice Midwives that have provided care within The Birth House framework plan to continue to offer homebirth midwifery care to families within our community and we hope we can come closer to meeting the increasing local demand for this care.  

We would like to thank each and every colleague, allied health provider, and the many families that have supported and contributed to our Birth House over the last decade!  And we celebrate and honour the nearly 200 babes who were born in our Birth Retreat over these years. What an amazing time it has been! With sadness but a sense of peace in the decision, we aim to close our doors at the end of 2021, and look forward with excitement and passion to providing ongoing homebirth care in our community.

Upcoming Events

• Calmbirth Sat, 27 Nov 2021 @ 9:00 am - Sun, 28 Nov 2021 @ 5:00 pm

• Calmbirth Sat, 27 Nov 2021 @ 9:00 am - Sun, 28 Nov 2021 @ 5:00 pm

• Calmbirth Mon, 29 Nov 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

• Matriyoga Tue, 30 Nov 2021 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am

• Calmbirth Wed, 1 Dec 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

• Matriyoga Thu, 2 Dec 2021 @ 9:45 am - 12:30 pm

• Rhea's book launch Thu, 2 Dec 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm