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25.01.2022 Come on @GregHuntMP! Birthing at home is safer than ever. Let’s expand the public Homebirth programs and give private Midwives the right to claim Medicare for birth care. COVID-19 hospital fears lead to spike in homebirth interest from pregnant women - ABC News
25.01.2022 Well written and useful article
25.01.2022 I love that this woman wants to help others know how strong birthing women are huge congratulations to her & her gorgeous family - welcome earth side baby boy
24.01.2022 Excellent research project here. If you are able to participate, please do - it will be an important addition to the information about providing antenatal services during the COVID pandemic and provide insights for the next possible pandemic situation.
24.01.2022 Good to see this recognition of women's and partners' needs after this devastating loss.
23.01.2022 Great to see evidence-based practice promoted in this blog. Important to read for anyone in #maternity care. ‘Oxygen and fetal heart rate abnormalities’ Birth Small Talk
22.01.2022 Such a privilege to be part of this awesome collective in this fabulous book, edited by @lornamidwife, Rea Daellenbach & Mary Kensington I've got goosebumps https://www.taylorfrancis.com//ch/10.4324/9780429290558-13
20.01.2022 An important paper about screening for domestic violence during antenatal care
19.01.2022 Mental health matters! This event is not to be missed! Excellent speakers
19.01.2022 Birth trauma week starts tomorrow 6 September and goes for a week. Let's think about what causes birth trauma and work to change it. The wonderful Professor Hannah Dahlan shares important insights in this blogpost on Thinkbirth. Respectful maternity care, which involves truly listening attentively, providing evidence informed information and discussion and respecting and supporting women's choices goes a long way to avoiding the spiritual, psychological and physical trauma that too many women experience.
18.01.2022 Such important information! Does everyone know this yet? Make sure your local state and federal MP knows this information. Write to them and let them know. Thanks to the wonderful Sarah Wickham for collating this information and Midwifery@Griffith for sharing it.
17.01.2022 A thought provoking exploration of the perinatal data that's collected and used to determine the focus of health care for childbearing women "The list of data required is therefore a socially determined product, and hidden within it are the beliefs, values, and assumptions of the people who have played their part in generating the list since it began".https://birthsmalltalk.com//the-invisible-trauma-in-our-p/
16.01.2022 So very important! Join in and listen to the women and other advocates for better maternity services.
15.01.2022 This is a very worthy campaign - let’s do it!
13.01.2022 Helpful article by Hannah Dahlen two minute read
13.01.2022 "We are forced to reckon with the root cause of this crisis: the medicalization of birth & the criminalization of midwives. That women were forced into hospitals to deliver, when birth is not a medical event, is now reaping grave consequences for us all. A terrifying overview of how women and babies are suffering because of mismanagement and medicalisation. The time is right for midwifery to assert itself as the best care for childbearing women and for their home to become the best place for most women to give birth.
13.01.2022 This resource for optimising normal birth is beautifully crafted - you'll love this information and the illustrations are superb
13.01.2022 What I love about birth at home is that women are in their own place and so are their partners. For women who feel safe at home then birth at home feels part of her life. For their partners, they feel comfortable they know their own home and they are free to be the host. Partners are far more relaxed at home than what I see when they come into hospital with a labouring woman. The biggest question women have when they labour and birth at home is when to call the midwife. A...s a homebirth midwife I’m a guest in their place. Respect and reverence for the woman’s process is palpable. Women birth their babies on their own 2 feet fully knowledgeable and in their own power. Another thing to love is it’s totally sustainable. There’s not the plastics and the waste that’s found in birthing in institutions. Some women even prepare their own cord ties so there’s not even a plastic umbilical cord clamp! Birthing at home is a sheer delight for the vast majority of women when they are fully prepared with expert support from a midwife. This research adds to our empirical knowledge and it’s great to have that back up. It’s about time the amazingness of women giving birth was fully recognised, supported and appreciated. See more
12.01.2022 Happy International Midwives Day to all you beautiful midwives out there, across the globe and others who care about women and birth
12.01.2022 The wonders of reproduction continue to amaze and fascinate us all. Do you think we will ever plumb the depths of what there is to know?
11.01.2022 Hey world! You need to know this information! Continuous monitoring doesn't change outcomes for the baby! Stop tying women down in labour. Intrapartum cardiotocograph monitoring and perinatal outcomes for wome... https://www.sciencedirect.com//artic/pii/S187151921930825X
09.01.2022 An unethical practice that has been long gone in Australia. It's interesting and horrifying to see the arguments in favour. We do all see the world out of differing belief systems and perceptions. I would hope that all of us in health care would move with the times, consider the ethics of whatever we are doing in practice and ensure our practice is evidence informed. It is alarming that some medical people don't have an ethical perception front and centre.
08.01.2022 All women deserve the kind of care that leaves them feeling awesome and powerful. These stories of traumatic births and the way women feel after them make me weep :( We need more private midwives like Liz Wilkes and those who work in health service midwifery group practices providing holistic midwifery care, avoiding unnecessary intervention and working with women and their partners to optimise the birth experience. Listen to this podcast for greater insight into the situation: https://www.abc.net.au//ea/inside-the-birth-suite/11890476
08.01.2022 Midwives of Ireland just shared this article on Twitter. All women deserve continuity of midwifery care - time for governments everywhere to step up and provide childbearing women with the care that is safest. Poor 'continuity of care' one the findings of an of Irish study of pregnant victims of domestic violence.
06.01.2022 Heartbreaking on too many levels
06.01.2022 An important fact. Something to make us ponder the standard care for childbearing women in hospitals. "However, cerebral palsy rates were almost three times higher with CTG monitoring over intermittent auscultation (going from 769 to 1,951 babies per 10,000 births). We don’t know why this is." https://theconversation.com/most-women-who-give-birth-in-au
06.01.2022 Some uncommon sense here!
04.01.2022 "Woman-centred care acknowledges that a woman and her unborn baby do not exist independently of the woman's social and emotional environment and incorporates this understanding in assessment and provision of health care," the report stated.
03.01.2022 Let's make the change! Nathan is an obstetrician who has just left the building - he's over it. His blog post lays out clearly why the way maternity care is provided and institutionalised needs to change. Nathan writes "The life of a hospital-based OB/GYN is misery. Phone calls throughout the night to fix problems that we created through attempts to induce or intensify birth surges are a prime example of how our priorities have become thoroughly ass-backwards"
03.01.2022 Microplastics are being ingested by every living thing. We don't know the long term effects on infants' health yet, but we don't have to try too hard to think of the multiple exposures to foreign, human made chemicals to genetic expression. Perhaps a move to glass bottles for formula feeding may be in order as this article indicates. Li, D., Shi, Y., Yang, L. et al. Microplastic release from the degradation of polypropylene feeding bottles during infant formula preparation. Nat Food (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-00171-y
03.01.2022 Academia tells me this was my most popular paper last week! How fantastic. An oldie but a goodie Helping women trust themselves | Carolyn R Hastie - Academia.edu (PDF) If midwives resonate with this paper, I’m grateful - it’s our core work in my view https://www.academia.edu/152/Helping_women_trust_themselves
03.01.2022 These are the basic services that childbearing women and families deserve. Can you please talk to your members of parliament and the opposition so that they understand what’s missing and what needs to happen for maternity services to truly be safe
03.01.2022 There are many feeling this way ... time for change
01.01.2022 Could all you lovely Australian midwives please answer this survey? We are a group of midwifery researchers from the Trans-Tasman Midwifery Education Consortium. We are seeking participants to complete an online survey. The survey will enquire on your perceptions of how new midwifery graduates are supported during their first year of practice. If you are interested please complete the survey at the following link: https://loom.ly/N7FgYxY
