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25.01.2022 Higher rates of normal births are linked to: provider beliefs about birth, implementation of evidence-based practice; and effective health care teams.

24.01.2022 Dignity in Maternity Care is Respectful Care Dignity is a touchstone concept in human rights, ethics, politics, philosophy and Respectful Maternity Care. Human dignity is inalienable right, based on the inherent human worth of a person. Hence, pregnant women should never be treated as a means to the ends of others. Dignity is the opposite of humiliation and shame. Dignity describes the felt experience of being valued while the innate human vulnerability to shame and injury... is acknowledged and addressed. Dignity is the internal state of peace, that comes with the recognition and acceptance of the value and vulnerability. In maternity care this dual focus on the woman’s value and vulnerability is key to the concept of dignity, where the recognition of the woman’s value is based in the acknowledgement of her vulnerability to harm and humiliation. In maternity care, dignified environments and processes are those in which both the woman’s values and vulnerability are acknowledged and accommodated simultaneously, where she is recognised, understood, treated with safety, fairness and accountability. #SafeMotherhood4All #RespectfulMaternityCare #MaternalHealthMatters #pregnancy #MaternalHMatters #mother #baby #maternity #pregnancy #pregnant #expecting #birth #normalbirth #motherhood #grandmother #expectant #childbirth #MattersMaternal #birthtrauma

24.01.2022 Please sign and share this letter to your local member. We want a status report on the implementation of the national policy Women Centred Care: Strategic Directions for Australian maternity services. The strategy seeks improve maternity care services by providing respectful maternity care through ensuring women’s rights are protected, increase access to continuity of midwifery carer, look at funding reform, increases in transparency of outcomes of care providers and colle...ct data around maternal satisfaction. This policy was launched in November 2019 yet is currently not being progressed in all states and territories. In anticipation, thank you for supporting this effort. Link to letter: https://maternalhealth.good.do/maternal/MaternityAdvocacy/ #maternalMHaustralia #respectfulmaternitycare #maternalhealth #continuityofcare #maternaladvocacy #maternalhealthmatters #mattersmaternal

22.01.2022 Do you have the skills to be a maternity consumer representative? RANZCOG is developing a Consumer Network. For more information: https://ranzcog.edu.au/our-college/consumer-network To do this its important to have the skills to advocate for the maternity community. The Maternity Consumer Network provides maternity consumer representative training (https://www.maternityconsumernetwork.org.au/) as does the Consumer Health Forum of Australia (https://chf.org.au/).

19.01.2022 A Candid Conversation About Bodies This article rightly brings up what we neglect that is a mother’s health and well-being. We agree the price we all pay by not having the conversations, however uncomfortable, about childbirth and its impacts disadvantages future generations.... If we talk about our experiences respectfully we will realise how much we have in common. https://www.nytimes.com//childbirth-bodies-stigma-incontin #SafeMotherhood4All #RespectfulMaternityCare #MaternalHealthMatters #MattersMaternal #pregnancy #MaternalHMatters #mother #baby #maternity #pregnancy #pregnant #expecting #birth #normalbirth #motherhood #grandmother #expectant #childbirth #MattersMaternal #birthtrauma

17.01.2022 Caesarean sections are effective and lifesaving procedures but the World Health Organization (WHO) regards rates higher than 10% as not associated with reductions in maternal and newborn mortality rates. Rising caesarean rates have fuelled the current debate on the short-term and long-term health consequences of operative delivery for both the mother and newborn. This article add to our knowledge the impact of caesarean birth. https://rdcu.be/b7TlQ

14.01.2022 A coalition of four peak Australian nonprofit consumer advocacy groups: Maternity Choices Australia, Maternity Consumer Network, PBB Media and Safe Motherhood For All have set-up a Facebook page - Maternal Mental Health Matters Australia 2020 - to provide an avenue for education, discussion and advocacy on issues of concern related to pregnancy, birth and beyond. #maternalMHaustralia #respectfulmaternitycare #maternalhealth #continuityofcare #maternaladvocacy #maternalhealthmatters #mattersmaternal https://www.facebook.com/maternalmentalhealthmattersaustralia/

14.01.2022 Consumers discuss pregnacy and birth: The link below is to a special panel with Australians who access maternity healthcare services. They are discussing their experience of tuning into the Birth Trauma Awareness Week Special Panel. https://www.facebook.com/maternalmentalhealthmattersaustralia/videos/1084539251967554/... #SafeMotherhood4All #RespectfulMaternityCare #MaternalHealthMatters #pregnancy #MaternalHMatters #mother #baby #maternity #pregnancy #pregnant #expecting #birth #normalbirth #motherhood #grandmother #expectant #childbirth #MattersMaternal #birthtrauma

13.01.2022 Following on from Birth Trauma Week have a look at Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life The Miracle of Birth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcHdF1eHhgc How do you think the mother and father felt in this clip?... How do you feel? #SafeMotherhood4All #RespectfulMaternityCare #MaternalHealthMatters #pregnancy #MaternalHMatters #mother #baby #newborn #maternity #pregnancy #pregnant #expecting #birth #normalbirth #motherhood #parent #grandmother #expectant #childbirth #WOCaffirm #mattersmaternal

10.01.2022 On an international level countries are most often doing all they can to avoid the dire consequences that can be an outcome of COVID 19, while meanwhile papers such as this indicate a link between reduced services and still birth, surely the worst outcome for any parent. The health and wellbeing of mothers and their babies needs to be a priority of governments everywhere and no more so than at times such as this, during a global pandemic. #SafeMotherhood4All #RespectfulMaternityCare #MaternalHealthMatters #pregnancy #MaternalHMatters #mother #baby #newborn #maternity #pregnancy #pregnant #expecting #birth #normalbirth #motherhood #parent #grandmother #expectant #childbirth #WOCaffirm #MattersMaternal #birthtrauma

10.01.2022 This video presents a very clear message - talk about your birth stories respectfully - you may help other women to be confident rather than fearful. #SafeMotherhood4All #RespectfulMaternityCare #MaternalHealthMatters #pregnancy #MaternalHMatters #mother #baby #maternity #pregnancy #pregnant #expecting #birth #normalbirth #motherhood #grandmother #expectant #childbirth #MattersMaternal #birthtrauma

09.01.2022 Caesarean section (CS) rates are increasing and there are wide variations in rates internationally and nationally. There is evidence that women who attend their obstetrician privately have a higher incidence of CS than those who attend publicly. Women who have their first baby by CS as this article says will have a CS for subsequent births. Two key points - the importance of getting the first birth right and the importance of choosing where to birth and with what health professional. #SafeMotherhood4All #RespectfulMaternityCare #MaternalHealthMatters #pregnancy #MaternalHMatters #mother #baby #maternity #pregnancy #pregnant #expecting #birth #normalbirth #motherhood #grandmother #expectant #childbirth #MattersMaternal #birthtrauma

07.01.2022 The harmful effects of patriarchy are sustaining the oppression of women. This is impacting on maternity services with unacceptable rates of maternal mortality and morbidity and the limiting of women's choice of care provider and place of birth options. Gloria Steinem once said feminism at its core is about choice. If pregnant women cannot choose freely how to birth, speak to their choices, be respected as competent and have their autonomy respected, then we’re moving backwards. https://birthsmalltalk.com//its-the-patri/comment-page-1/ #SafeMotherhood4All #RespectfulMaternityCare #MaternalHealthMatters #pregnancy #MaternalHMatters #mother #baby #maternity #pregnancy #pregnant #expecting #birth #normalbirth #motherhood #grandmother #expectant #childbirth #MattersMaternal #birthtrauma

06.01.2022 Consumers can help shape Australia's healthcare for the better. To do this its important to have the skills to advocate for the community. We recommend anyone wanting to become a consumer advocate to develop these skills. The Maternity Consumer Network provides maternity consumer representative training (https://www.maternityconsumernetwork.org.au/) as does the Consumer Health Forum of Australia (https://chf.org.au/).

06.01.2022 There is no one right way to have a baby; however our maternity care system functions as if there is. We recommend this clip. It eloquently explores the way society and culture influences childbearing. In this clip, Katherine McKinnaon introduces the main themes and findings of her research 'Birthing Work: the collective labour of childbirth'. Drawing on interviews with mothers, midwives and obstetricians, the book explores the collective endeavours that shape birth expe...riences. It focuses on who does the work of childbirth, expanding the boundaries for who (and what) is responsible for this collective labour and highlighting the interdependencies that characterise it. #SafeMotherhood4All #RespectfulMaternityCare #MaternalHealthMatters #MattersMaternal #pregnancy #MaternalHMatters #mother #baby #maternity #pregnancy #pregnant #expecting #birth #normalbirth #motherhood #grandmother #expectant #childbirth #MattersMaternal #birthtrauma

05.01.2022 Cultural expectations impact significantly on how we experience the world. Rhea has some sage advice.

04.01.2022 Great panel wisely discussing birth trauma

04.01.2022 New guidance for clinicians on obtaining valid informed consent The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission) recognises the importance of informed consent for providing safe, high-quality care. has developed new guidance for clinicians on how to obtain informed consent in health care. While the information has been developed for clinicians, the fact sheet is useful for consumers when they are required to give consent. ... The fact sheet provides information on the key principles for informed consent, how to obtain valid informed consent, principles for assessing legal capacity, information on legal obligations, and links to further information and useful resources. To find out more, visit safetyandquality.gov.au/informed-consent. #SafeMotherhood4All #RespectfulMaternityCare #MaternalHealthMatters #pregnancy #MaternalHMatters #mother #baby #newborn #maternity #pregnancy #pregnant #expecting #birth #normalbirth #motherhood #parent #grandmother #expectant #childbirth #WOCaffirm #MattersMaternal #birthtrauma