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Exploring the barriers of quitting smoking during pregnancy: A systematic review of qualitative studies.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Smoking during pregnancy is widely known to increase health risks to the foetus, and understanding the quitting process during pregnancy is essential in order to realise national government targets. Qualitative studies have been used in order to gain a greater understanding of the quitting process and the objective of this systematic review was to examine and evaluate qualitative studies that have investigated the psychological and social factors around women attempting to quit smoking during pregnancy. Electronic databases and journals were searched with seven articles included in this review. The findings demonstrate...
Source: Women Birth - October 28, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: Ingall G, Cropley M Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

A survey of folic acid use in primigravid women.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A convenience sample of 320 consecutive primigravid women attending the antenatal clinic of a large Sydney tertiary referral hospital were invited to take part in a survey of folic acid use in pregnancy. The aim of the survey was to determine the number of primigravid women who commenced taking folic acid supplementation at least 1 month prior to conception. In addition the survey sought information on women's source of knowledge about the need for folic acid in pregnancy and whether their pregnancy was planned or unplanned. 295 women qualified to be included in the survey. While 88.1% of women took folic acid at some ...
Source: Women Birth - October 11, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: Wilton DC, Foureur MJ Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Antenatal screening and predicting hypertension in pregnancy for midwives.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: Further research should be focused on the factors observed by midwives during history taking and the antenatal course in the second and third trimesters and whether or not these can be synthesised in to a hypertension-specific diagnostic tool for use in midwifery practice. PMID: 19805014 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - October 2, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: Peacock AS, Bogossian F Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Critical approach to medical advice is best for mothers: Midwives play key role.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19766073 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - September 15, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: Thurlow R Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Caesarean section: The ultimate by-product of the One Two Punch Theory.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19734115 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - September 3, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: Fenwick J Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

'You can drop dead': Midwives bullying women.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSION: Emotional and cultural safety of women must be a prime consideration of midwives. Strategies to reverse power differentials between midwives and women are urgently required to eradicate bullying by any midwife. PMID: 19695973 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - August 17, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: Dietsch E, Shackleton P, Davies C, McLeod M, Alston M Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Women's experiences of being induced for post-date pregnancy.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
AIM: To explore the women's experiences of being booked for induction of labour for a pregnancy greater than 41 weeks gestation. PARTICIPANTS: 23 primigravidae who were booked for induction: 18 were induced (induction group) and 5 went into spontaneous labour (comparison group). METHOD: Data were collected by a series of interviews from booking to after birthing: interpretative techniques analysed verbatim transcriptions. FINDINGS: Two dimensions of being in the process of induction were identified: (1) a sense of "Time's Up," when the natural, temporal aspects of pregnancy end with an imposed birth date and sequenced ...
Source: Women Birth - July 29, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: Gatward H, Simpson M, Woodhart L, Stainton MC Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Medicare rebates for midwives: An analysis of the 2009/2010 Federal Budget.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19647507 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - July 29, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: Wilkes E, Teakle B, Gamble J Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Western Australian women's perceptions of the style and quality of midwifery postnatal care in hospital and at home.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSION: Although the majority of women in this study were satisfied with the components of physical care and information and assistance with infant feeding and sleep and settling provided in the short-term, there was less satisfaction with emotional care and preparation for life at home with a new baby. This study adds to our understandings of women's experiences of the early postnatal period and provides information on which to base improvements in postnatal care and maternity services in WA and across Australia. PMID: 19632912 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - July 23, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: Fenwick J, Butt J, Dhaliwal S, Hauck Y, Schmied V Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Relationships between prenatal smoking cessation, gestational weight gain and maternal lifestyle characteristics.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: In this population, smoking cessation in early pregnancy doubled the likelihood of gaining excess weight. This finding highlights the need for supportive measures to help control weight gain among women who quit smoking during pregnancy. PMID: 19586807 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - July 5, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: Adegboye AR, Rossner S, Neovius M, Lourenço PM, Linné Y Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Reducing length of stay for women who present as outpatients to delivery suite: A clinical practice improvement project.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSION: The use of advanced practice midwives reduced the overall length of stay for women with pregnancy concerns. There were no adverse events or complaints. Women, midwives and doctors all evaluated the change positively. These findings provide evidence to support this advanced practice midwifery model in other similar maternity services. PMID: 19570735 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - June 28, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: Haxton J, Fahy K Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

ePortfolio in Midwifery Practice: "The Way of The Future"Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSION: The paper concludes that ePortfolio is considered 'the way of the future' for midwifery students, however a number of issues must be addressed through further collaboration prior to replacing the paper-based ePortfolio. PMID: 19523891 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - June 9, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: Pincombe J, McKellar L, Weise M, Grinter E, Beresford G Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Midwife-centered versus woman-centered care: A developmental phase?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19406373 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - June 1, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: Foureur M, Brodie P, Homer C Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Women's views of postnatal care in the context of the increasing pressure on postnatal beds in Australia.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Women were concerned about shortened postnatal length of hospital stay and these concerns must be considered when changes are planned in maternity service provision. Any moves towards shorter postnatal length of stay must be comprehensively evaluated with consideration given to exploring consumer views and satisfaction. There is also a need for flexibility in postnatal care that acknowledges women's individual needs. PMID: 19482571 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - May 22, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: McLachlan HL, Gold L, Forster DA, Yelland J, Rayner J, Rayner S Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Infant feeding in the first 12 weeks following birth: A comparison of patterns seen in Asian and non-Asian women in Australia.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSION: Further research into this important issue is needed in order to improve breastfeeding support for women from different cultural backgrounds. The issue of causes of, and variations in, the levels of partial breastfeeding between different ethnic groups needs more investigation. PMID: 19443285 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - May 12, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: Dahlen HG, Homer CS Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Optimising psychophysiology in third stage of labour: Theory applied to practice.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: A psychophysiological third stage is quite different from what has been defined as 'physiological management' in the medically designed randomised trials comparing active versus physiological care. The conditions for deciding if a particular woman, in a particular context with a particular midwife is a good candidate for a psychophysiological third stage are presented and discussed. Only if all these conditions are met it is safe to proceed with a psychophysiological third stage. Research about the effectiveness of midwifery care in a psychophysiological third stage of labour urgently needs to be conducted. ...
Source: Women Birth - April 2, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: Hastie C, Fahy KM Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Maternal mortality: What can we learn from stories of postpartum haemorrhage?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article will identify some of the lessons that can be learnt from the recent Australian and UK maternal death reports. This paper presents an overview of the process and systems for the reporting of maternal death in Australia. It will then specifically focus on obstetric haemorrhage, with a focus on postpartum haemorrhage, for the 12-year period, 1994-2005. Vignettes from the maternal mortality reports in Australia and the United Kingdom are used to highlight the important lessons for providers of maternity care. PMID: 19278912 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - March 9, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: Homer C, Clements V, McDonnell N, Peek M, Sullivan E Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Women's decisions about maternal serum screening testing: A qualitative study exploring what they learn and the role prenatal care providers play.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: Understanding where women learn about MSS and how they make their decisions about testing sheds important light on the roles prenatal care providers should play. PMID: 19264570 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - March 3, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: Park A, Mathews M Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Quality improvement research: Can it be published?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19217588 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - February 17, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: Fahy K Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

'It looks good on paper': Transitions of care between midwives and child and family health nurses in New South Wales.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSION: A more coordinated and systematised approach needs to be developed. Collaboration and communication between midwives and child and family health nurses is essential if the needs of families are to be addressed during this transition period. PMID: 19217366 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - February 11, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: Homer CS, Henry K, Schmied V, Kemp L, Leap N, Briggs C Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Swedish caregivers' attitudes towards caesarean section on maternal request.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATION FOR PRACTICE: Both midwives and obstetricians considered the management of CS on maternal request difficult, and the result showed that they balanced between resistance and respect. The result also showed that the participants stressed the importance of professionals advocating natural birth with evidence-based knowledge and methods to prevent maternal requests. Ongoing discussions among health professionals on attitudes and practice would strengthen their professional roles and lead to a decrease in CS rates in Sweden. PMID: 19195958 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - February 3, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: Karlström A, Engström-Olofsson R, Nystedt A, Thomas J, Hildingsson I Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Pregnancy and protection: Perceptions, attitudes and experiences of Australian female adolescents.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: Our research highlights the importance of attitudes toward contraception, pregnancy and parenthood in shaping teenagers' motivation to use contraception. Educational and prevention programs must address the spectrum of attitudes underlying teenagers' contraceptive and reproductive decisions in order to alter pathways to teenage pregnancy and early parenting. PMID: 19179129 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - January 27, 2009 Category: Midwifery Authors: Skinner SR, Smith J, Fenwick J, Hendriks J, Fyfe S, Kendall G Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

What do midwives need to understand/know about smoking in pregnancy?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSION: Midwives are in a position to support women and their families in all health related issues, including smoking cessation. We recommend that midwives ask permission before making enquires about sensitive issues such as smoking. When discussing smoking with pregnant women, midwives work within the philosophy of midwifery, with the emphasis on building trust and maintaining relationships. Great sensitivity is required and as much as possible the conversation should be a dialogue, not a monologue. PMID: 19117827 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - December 29, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Ebert L, van der Riet P, Fahy K Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Slow midwifery.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Some patterns of timekeeping and counting are fraught in midwifery. In this paper we suggest our societal love affair with all things fast can cause us, as midwives, to limit women's possibilities (and our own). We suggest that timekeeping and counting potentially disrupt the midwife-woman relationship and, further, timekeeping and counting contribute to us valuing particular qualities in women and in the health system, including the idea that fast is better than slow. Pondering how this could be different, we consider a beginning global trend about time and speed - the Slow movement - and suggest a new movement, 'Slow...
Source: Women Birth - December 22, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Browne J, Chandra A Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

An evaluation of Midwifery Group Practice. Part I: Clinical effectiveness.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: MGP is clinically effective when practiced in a routine setting. PMID: 19101219 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - December 18, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Turnbull D, Baghurst P, Collins C, Cornwell C, Nixon A, Donnelan-Fernandez R, Antoniou G Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Applying new techniques to an old ally: A qualitative validation study of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSION: The results suggest that it may be useful for the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale to be administered in the context of a discussion about a woman's mental health concerns, which could involve asking her for more details about her responses to particular items that have been identified in this study as potentially problematic. This will help ensure that practitioners are accurately interpreting a woman's answers to the items on the scale. PMID: 19081313 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - December 8, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Godderis R, Adair CE, Brager N Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Acute uterine inversion in a rural African woman: A rare consequence of child birth.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A case study of Ms. TE a 38-year-old Para7(+0) with seven living children is presented. Ms. TE had no antenatal care and was rushed to hospital with features of acute incomplete uterine inversion, 90min after a spontaneous vaginal birth at home. The birth was supported by the second wife of her husband who had no experience in birth attendance. Her third stage of labour was not managed actively. Successful repositioning of the uterus was achieved under anaesthesia in the hospital. Uninformed mismanagement of third stage of labour was probably the reason for the condition of Ms. TE. Though acute uterine inversion is rar...
Source: Women Birth - December 3, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Dim CC Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

The importance of delayed cord clamping for *Aboriginal babies: A life-enhancing advantage.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Third stage management has typically focused on women and postpartum haemorrhage. Clamping and cutting the umbilical cord following the birth of the baby has continued to be a routine part of this focus. Active versus physiological management of third stage is generally accepted as an evidence-based plan for women to avoid excessive blood loss. Other considerations around this decision are rarely considered, including the baby's perspective. This paper provides a review of the literature regarding timing of clamping and cutting of the umbilical cord and related issues, and discusses the consequences for babies and in p...
Source: Women Birth - November 5, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Weckert R, Hancock H Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Atypical postpartum eclampsia: Status epilepticus without preeclamptic prodromi.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSION: Postpartum eclampsia can manifest without a preceding preeclampsia phase. Therefore, eclampsia is not always preventable. Pregnancies complicated by eclampsia require a well-formulated management plan. PMID: 18986860 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - November 3, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Niroomanesh S, Mirzaie F Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Breastfeeding advocacy: Who is responsible?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 18951864 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - October 23, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Sweet L Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

An evaluation of Midwifery Group Practice Part II: Women's satisfaction.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: Women being cared for in MGP are satisfied with their care. PMID: 18926788 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - October 14, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Fereday J, Collins C, Turnbull D, Pincombe J, Oster C Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Intradermal sterile water injections for the relief of low back pain in labour-A systematic review of the literature.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSION: Intradermal injections of sterile water possess powerful analgesic benefits for women experiencing low back pain in labour and their use in this therapeutic setting is justifiable. PMID: 18926789 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - October 14, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Fogarty V Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Effect of audit and feedback on the availability, utilisation and quality of emergency obstetric care in three districts in Malawi.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSION: There is need to increase availability of emergency obstetric care by upgrading some health centres to EmOC level through training of staff and provision of equipment and supplies. PMID: 18842471 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - October 6, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Kongnyuy EJ, Leigh B, van den Broek N Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Maternal deaths high for Indigenous women.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 18774352 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - September 4, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Kildea S Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Partner support in the childbearing period-A follow up study.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: This study shows that it might be possible to identify women who are lacking partner support already in early pregnancy. Women's social network and their support from partner should be investigated by health care providers and women in need of additional support should be refereed to available community resources. PMID: 18707928 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - August 14, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Hildingsson I, Tingvall M, Rubertsson C Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Perceived journal quality: An indicator of research quality.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 18657498 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - July 24, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Fahy K, Fenwick J Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Building capacity of maternity staff to discourage the use of sunlight therapy in the post-partum period and infancy.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: The educational intervention was successful in developing the knowledge of midwives and nurses to provide sound advice to new mothers about therapeutic sun exposure and in developing resources to support them in their education. Although workshops and resources are useful in the short term, they are impractical to sustain. To improve sustainability, content on this topic needs to be incorporated into midwifery and nursing curricula across Australia. PMID: 18653392 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - July 22, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Devine SG, Cand DP, Harrison SL, Buettner PG Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Listening to pregnancy dreams: Towards a Jungian Inner Map of pregnancy, lactation, weaning and post-weaning.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
From a Jungian perspective, there is a psychological pattern in the pregnancy, lactation, weaning and post-weaning process, which amounts to a 'physiological initiation' into motherhood, which is relatively unknown in current Western culture. This paper shows how this pattern in dream themes can be elucidated, forming an Inner Map of pregnancy. This map should help mothers better adjust to incipient motherhood, before the birth, and consequently help them to bond better with their babies. Building on the Inner Map, a research program is proposed into bone mineral metabolism post-weaning aimed at empirically grounding J...
Source: Women Birth - July 22, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Keenan S Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Developing a review process for Australian midwives: A report of the Midwifery Practice Review project process.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: The Midwifery Practice Review process is currently being implemented and evaluated in Australia. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: The Midwifery Practice Review Project established a national validated process for assessing the ongoing competence of midwives. The resulting program helps to reinforce responsibility and accountability in the provision of quality midwifery care through safe and effective practice. PMID: 18619935 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - July 9, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Griffiths M, Homer C Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Writing for publication: Argument and evidence.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The rules for writing a research report for publication are well defined but are much less clear for scholarly scientific papers. The purpose of this paper is to enable new writers to confidently apply the skills of scientific writing within a scholarly paper for publication. Similarities and differences between scientific argument and debating are discussed. Achieving the right 'tone' and emphasis in writing is considered. How to use the correct verb tense is outlined. The importance of a clearly defined question is explained. The elements of an effective scholarly paper are presented and examples given. The elements ...
Source: Women Birth - June 26, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Fahy K Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Time to listen: Strategies to improve hospital-based postnatal care.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSION: Midwives designed and implemented strategies that they believed would improve in-hospital postnatal care. PMID: 18579461 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - June 23, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Schmied V, Cooke M, Gutwein R, Steinlein E, Homer C Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Bringing birth-related paternal depression to the fore.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: Men may suffer from psychological distress after childbirth and birth-related paternal depression is not a rare phenomenon. Since this disorder, also called 'paternal postpartum depression', presents potential deleterious effects for the child, an increased level of public health awareness and scientific interest is warranted. In addition, a more detailed assessment of fathers during the postnatal period is recommended, especially when their partners are also depressed, so that the condition will be promptly recognized and treated. PMID: 18479990 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - May 12, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Schumacher M, Zubaran C, White G Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Craving closeness: A grounded theory analysis of women's experiences of mothering in the Special Care Nursery.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: It becomes clear that the intense work women undertake as mothers in the nursery is focused on not only the infant, which might have been expected, but also the nursery staff. It is driven by their desire to develop or re-establish some sense of competence in the eyes of the nurse and to achieve control over the situation. Achieving physical closeness with the baby was a major strategy through which women not only learned about and gained intimate knowledge of their infant, but also demonstrated authority and ownership. It appears that reorientating the delivery of services from the infant to the mother-infant...
Source: Women Birth - May 5, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Fenwick J, Barclay L, Schmied V Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Risk: Let's look at the bigger picture.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 18455489 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - April 30, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Skinner J Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

The birth of 'MidPLUS': Australia's new national continuing professional development program for midwives.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The national continuing professional development (CPD) program of the Australian College of Midwives, MidPLUS, was officially launched in September 2007. In our role as program developers we were dedicated to the belief that this national CPD program would be an important step for Australian midwives, and contribute to demonstrating a commitment to providing safe and effective care for Australian women and families. This paper outlines key issues involved in providing CPD programs for professional groups and highlights how this information was used in the decision making behind the design of MidPLUS. The key operationa...
Source: Women Birth - April 23, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Monaghan J, Shorten A Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Writing for publication: The basics.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PROBLEM: Most midwives and nurses do not write for publication. Previous authors on this topic have focussed on the processes of writing and getting published. Although definitive English usage style guides exist, they are infrequently consulted by new midwifery authors. PURPOSE: To enable new writers to confidently apply the basic skills of scientific writing when preparing a paper for publication. OVERVIEW: The basic skills needed for scientific writing are the focus of this paper. The importance of careful word choices is discussed first. Next, the skills of writing sentences are presented. Finally, the skills of wr...
Source: Women Birth - February 16, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Fahy K Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

A feminist history of Australian midwifery from colonisation until the 1980s.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper uses a feminist interpretation and secondary sources to describe the history of Australian midwifery from colonisation until the 1980s. There have been too few midwife scholars who have had access to or used primary data collections to describe the role and place of midwives in the colonising community. I draw on a range of biography, medical literature and work by sociologists and economic historians to produce a limited picture of the history of professional midwifery. This helps to explain the position of midwives today and the problematic relationship we often have with medicine. PMID: 18272448 [PubM...
Source: Women Birth - February 11, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Barclay L Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Including the nonrational is sensible midwifery.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Since the subordination of midwifery by medicine and nursing in the 19th and 20th centuries the standard approach to childbirth has been dominated by rationality. This approach proceeds by creating dichotomies and then prioritising one half of the dichotomy whilst rejecting the opposite term. Rationality itself is prioritised, for example, by contrasting it with the rejected opposite: irrationality. Expert clinical practice is, however, increasingly identified as being inclusive of more than merely rational ways of knowing and behaving. This paper is based on a post-structural study concerning changes to women's embodi...
Source: Women Birth - February 1, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Parratt JA, Fahy KM Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Evidence-based midwifery and power/knowledge.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 18243837 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - February 1, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Fahy K Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals

Midwifery education and models of care-Moving forward mindfully.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 18243087 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Women Birth)
Source: Women Birth - January 31, 2008 Category: Midwifery Authors: Ebert LM Tags: Women Birth Source Type: journals