Midwives are often ghastly. This doesn’t surprise me.

Good on her for putting in a complaint. Midwives, drs and nurses should all be impartial to family situations.

I am glad to hear she put forth a complaint. That behavior is unacceptable.

OMG… I would take my complaint further… what right does anyone have to comment. As long as the parents of the child provide them with love, home and all their needs are et, then it is nobody’s business…

Oh My God, that is a terrible situation. I’m a little gobsmacked and can’t believe a midwife would say something like that. The first issue of leaving your baby with someone to have a shower! Really? I imagine we’ve all done that after birth. What was the other option? This is an unusual situation and one I imagine was upsetting. Best that it was reported and can be dealt with.

Whether true or not the midwife is supposedly a professional and should not make any remark. I also don’t think with the voting on legalising gay marriages is not going to change anything. It will only make it legal on paper. It won’t make people change their opinions on the matter.

I will probably get condemned for saying this, but considering the timing concerning the survey and the propaganda being spread, I don’t believe this story. It is convenient that it was said in a shower room and there were no witnesses. I have just seen some very ugly things circulating surrounding the survey we are currently completing and a lot of them are comprised of stories that have been falsified to support a particular view point to try and sway voters.

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  Yeah like Tony Abbott’s false claims that he was headbutted due because of the vote.

Regardless of the midwife’s personal views – she should have not expressed them to this new mother – stepping over the line big time!

wow that midwife was clearly out of line – if you don’t agree with a lovely new baby being loved by two parents who love each other then you are seriously messed up! – I think that just making the midwife go through ethics training is not enough of a punishment for the cruelness she showed to Kristy

I think the midwife’s personal opinions should be kept to herself. She was not professional in her capacity as a midwife. I also think it would be horrible to be constantly judged on your relationship.

Although I agree that the midwife acted wrongly at that time, the rest of the story is also wrong. Any couples living together especially for 17 years automatically have the right to keep their children, plan for a funeral and have access to half the other’s assets. I do wish people would stick to the truth and not colour things. By the way there is an equality issue in all this too and it’s not if those who are not heterosexual can marry. It is plain and simple – two women living together will never amass the sort of money that two men will – and a man & a woman will be right in the middle of amassing money for all their children’s futures. Where’s the equality in that?

I am wondering why this birth story was brought up and surrounding the plebiscite …is it a story about her birth and the treatment by this horrible midwife or is it purely publicity for the gay right vote. ?

they should just do their job and keep their personal opinions out of it. now this couple’s birth experience will always be a little tainted by this woman’s opinon

Let’s hope the “ethics training” she’ll be getting, will be of some help!! She really needs it!

Totally unacceptable !! The midwife should be laid off because of disfunctioning.

I hope that midwife quits her job. What a horrible thing to say! It’s not her job to share her personal opinion on anyone’s life choices, it’s her job to provide the best care to mum and bub as possible. I had a doctor tell me something hurtful while I was in labour, and you never forget. Some people should not be working with people who are vulnerable.

No one should be made to feel that way. Everyone just needs to respect each other’s choices. I bet there are plenty of other controversial families of different kinds who aren’t gay that people don’t even bat an eye at.

What a horrible midwife and a coward, attacking her when she was at her most vulnerable. Seriously, what is better than one Mum, two of course! That child will grow up to be a caring and well adjusted individual.

A horrible and nasty midwife who has no right to say that to anyone.

How horrible for this woman to have to hear the opinions of the nurse while at her most vulnerable. Regardless of what the nurse thinks or believes in, she needs to keep her mouth shut and just get on with her job – not pass judgement