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A mother has made a heartfelt plea for an end to hospital-focused childbirth, after describing her birth of a child in hospital as by far the most gruelling.

Liz Schipper has had four children but told the commission of inquiry into hospitals yesterday that by far “the most painful experience I have been through” was in Goulburn Base Hospital.

The housewife from Bungonia in the Southern Highlands told the commission that after giving birth to two children at her home in the Netherlands, she had returned to Australia and went to Goulburn Hospital to have her third child.

Her daughter was born uneventfully but not before she was subjected to interventions by the obstetrician, including the application of a fetal heart monitor and fetal scalp monitor, an attempt to insert a drip for pain relief which was abandoned at her request, and a request that she lie on a bed with her legs in stirrups when she had been used to walking and standing during labour.
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