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Queensland government to host second roundtable on regional maternity crisis

Natasha Reynolds is heavily pregnant and terrified of going into labour before she makes it to her closest hospital — two hours' drive away. 

The 34-year-old mum is expecting her third child within weeks, but her home town of Chinchilla in southern Queensland has been without a proper birthing service for years.

Instead, women drive to Dalby or Toowoomba to give birth.

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