Border obstetrician Pieter Mourik said on Thursday the Minogue drama, which saw the performer rushed to hospital due to “complications”, should bring home the dangers of home births.

But Donna Jones, who had her second child at home, said it showed home birth participants and their midwives were prepared for the risk.

“The fact that she has transferred to hospital to me suggests that she had a really great midwife who said ‘you know what, it’s time to go and get some help’,” Mrs Jones said.

“To me a home birth transferred to a hospital is not a failure or a disaster.

“It’s just that obviously for whatever reason, it couldn’t happen at home, so the midwife has said let’s go to the hospital we’ve already booked into and get the medical help you require.”

Mrs Jones said the attraction for her to home births was to avoid the adrenalin that affected the natural process.

“The hormonal process is affected by adrenalin which is caused by fear and at hospitals you have doctors and midwives you mightn’t know, it’s a strange environment, you have bright lights — they’re all the sorts of things that leads to everything going wrong in deliveries,” she said.

“I see that as a greater risk than having a home birth.

“At home, you’ve got a midwife who you have been preparing with for months.

“I was confident in my body’s ability to give birth if I was left alone to get along with it.”

Mrs Jones, who is a member of Birthing and Babies Albury-Wodonga, said a way would be for hospitals such as Wodonga to expand its birthing options, including simulated home births.

“There needs to be more choices for people when it comes to birthing,” she said.

“If they are going to drive home birth out, they have to make the choices at the local hospital a lot better than what they are.”