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Virginia Schmied

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Professor, Western Sydney University

Women having a subsequent baby are more likely to disclose domestic violence than first time mothers. Vyshnova/Shutterstock

April 26, 2018

Pregnant women are at increased risk of domestic violence in all cultural groups

Hannah Dahlen, Western Sydney University and Virginia Schmied, Western Sydney University

Domestic violence in pregnancy not only causes distress and trauma for the mother, it also poses serious risks for the baby’s health and development.

It can take some time for women to come to terms with the conceptual as well as physical change of giving birth. Remy Sharp

November 5, 2013

One body becoming two: how women experience childbirth

Deborah Lupton, University of Sydney and Virginia Schmied, Western Sydney University

There is a substantial literature on labour and childbirth in medical, midwifery and social scientific research. But we still don’t know much about how labouring women experience that pivotal time when…

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