Many Indigenous families around the world say hospital staff often don’t understand their cultures or even give them basic rights during maternity care.
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Many women want to see the same one or two midwives throughout, and want to chose where they give birth. And when the time comes, they want a vaginal birth, with less intervention.
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Tokophobia goes beyond normal childbirth concerns and worries and becomes an intense and irrational fear of pregnancy and/or labour.
During a pandemic, a home birth starts looking better every second. Midwives with their specialized skills in low-risk normal birth can be of great service.
Research offers an insight into the experiences of pregnant women left to give birth in their cells without midwives
Professional bodies say that vaginal births after caesareans are safe and usually successful. So why do doctors often recommend that women go back under the knife?
New study finds that giving birth through an emergency caesarean increases the risk of developing postnatal depression in the first nine months after childbirth by about 15%.
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Senior Lecturer in Midwifery, University of Hertfordshire
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Research Associate in the Department of Economics, University of York
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Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor of Midwifery, Western Sydney University
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Senior Research Fellow in Maternal and Reproductive Health, University of Hull
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Professor of Midwifery and Dean in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Southern Cross University
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Clinical Academic Obstetrician, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Midwifery Education Program, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Dean of Health and Social Care, Edinburgh Napier University
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National Institute for Health Research Fellow, University of Hull
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Adjunct professor, Southern Cross University
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Academic Lead Midwifery Pre-Registration Midwifery programs, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University
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Researcher in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander maternal health and wellbeing, Flinders University
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Lecturer and researcher, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University