Humans have always required some form of extra help being born. But how much help is truly necessary – and how much is too much.
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Save The Children’s latest State of the World’s Mothers report highlights the impact of rising inequality on maternal deaths.
Medical intervention in birth is normalised by both maternity care providers and all kinds of media. Our research shows information about the benefits of natural birth help women make better choices.
It’s difficult to imagine how something as big as a baby’s head can come out of what appears to be a relatively small space. But during childbirth, the perineum – the area of skin and muscle between the…
Scaling up midwifery efforts worldwide could prevent up to 83% of all stillbirths and maternal and neonatal deaths, a new…
In the much-loved British TV drama Call the Midwife, women are offered care from dedicated midwives through pregnancy, labour and birth. The midwives are therefore able to get to know the women and practice…
A woman who is cared for by the same midwife throughout her pregnancy, labour and after birth saves the public health system around A$550, a new study has found, debunking the myth that it is an expensive…
Women who have a midwife as their main carer throughout pregnancy and birth are around 23% less likely to have a premature baby than women whose care is shared between different obstetricians, GPs and…
The history of childbirth and midwifery has seen some dramatic changes, not only in new medical discoveries that vastly improved the safety of both mother and baby but also in social trends and the way…
Hospitals provide much-needed medical care and treatment for women who run into difficulty in childbirth. But many women and babies have medical intervention and treatment without good reason. We’ve become…
In response to a recent South Australian coroner’s finding that three babies died from preventable causes, Health Minister Tanya Plibersek has said she will close a loophole in national health laws that…
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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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Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard University
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Professor in Midwifery, University of Sydney
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Professor of Maternal and Child Health, University of Stirling
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Assistant Professor and Registered Midwife, Coventry University
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Assistant Professor, Midwifery Education Program, McMaster University
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Associate Professor, Midwifery Education Program, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Lecturer, School of Nursing, Department of Midwifery and Gender, Moi University
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Associate Professor of Midwifery and Women's Health, Swansea University
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Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor and Head of Maternal Fetal Medicine, UNSW
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Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, Midwifery, University of Dundee
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PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University