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Creating a birth preferences list is a key step for every mama in preparing for childbirth. Start by spending time reflecting on your desired birth experience and noting your preferences. Then, discuss these preferences with your care team, including your healthcare provider, birth partner, doula, and other professionals, considering their expert advice. When choosing a birth location, consider options like a midwifery unit, birth center, hospital, or home birth, weighing the benefits of each. Remember, the final decision is yours, mama! ❤️ #BirthPreference #BirthPlan #PregnancyJourney

The Conveyor Belt of Childbirth As a midwife with decades of experience, I've seen childbirth evolve significantly. Recent US research shows epidurals can reduce maternal morbidity by 35%, potentially shaping healthcare practices. However, this raises concerns about increasing medical interventions during labour. Interventions are at an all-time high, causing many women to fear coerced inductions or unnecessary Caesarean sections, while feeling disconnected from natural birth processes. Midwives are losing confidence in supporting women wanting spontaneous labour due to eroding knowledge of physiological birth. Despite earlier initiatives like Maternity Care in Action and Changing Childbirth, we seem further than ever from embracing natural birth. Stifling regulations and administrative burdens compromise midwifery, turning childbirth into a conveyor belt prioritising efficiency over personalised care. This environment drives parents towards alternative birth options and discourages new midwives. I share the concerns about the future of maternity care and midwifery. It's disheartening to see aspiring midwives disillusioned by current practices. Without nurturing new talent, we risk losing the essence of midwifery, making birth a purely clinical process. Let's advocate for holistic, woman-centered care and support new midwives who can champion natural birth amidst evolving medical practices. Read my blog post to explore this issue in more depth - https://lnkd.in/e25fgRJv #Childbirth #MaternityCare #Midwifery

Creating a birth preferences list is a key step for every mama in preparing for childbirth. Start by spending time reflecting on your desired birth experience and noting your preferences. Then, discuss these preferences with your care team, including your healthcare provider, birth partner, doula, and other professionals, considering their expert advice. When choosing a birth location, consider options like a midwifery unit, birth center, hospital, or home birth, weighing the benefits of each. Remember, the final decision is yours, mama! ❤️ #BirthPreference #BirthPlan #PregnancyJourney

Receiving care throughout pregnancy by a midwife who is known to you is now referred to as a midwifery continuity of care model. This method of healthcare service is one of the best public health strategies available to prevent preterm birth and will be a key strategy in the Every Week Counts - National Preterm Birth Prevention Collaborative to prevent preterm and early term birth. In fact, high-quality evidence suggests that preterm birth is reduced by around 24 per cent in such models when compared with other types of maternity care. For Aboriginal women in midwifery continuity models, the improvement is around 50%. Read the feature article in the 2024 edition of the Every Week Counts magazine by NSW’s Amanda Rehayem and WA’s Jennifer Leverington, to find out more about midwifery continuity of care and the many other advantages of receiving this type of care: https://lnkd.in/gzVuJjnN #everyweekcounts #preterm #pretermbirth #alliance #APBPA #borntoosoon #pregnancy #maternity #education #midwifery #midwife #continuityofcare Australian College of Midwives

Home births are being chosen 60% more than ever before! To say women and families are tired of the often mediocre maternal care being received in our country would be an understatement. While #midwiferycare is the norm in the majority of high-income countries, this care is treated only as a luxury in America -- often not covered by insurance and harder to access for the majority. SAFE BIRTH CARE SHOULD NOT BE A LUXURY! The lack of access to midwives directly contributes to America’s shocking number of maternal deaths. THIS is why #birthFUND exists and why we are advocating for better birthing resources and more accessible midwifery care! 

The WHO has a new Position Paper on transitioning to Midwifery Models of Care. We are definitely soon reaching a global tipping point in the demand for evidence-based, respectful care using midwifery models of care. Even a modest 10% increase globally in Midwifery-led care could reduce maternal death by 22% and newborn deaths by 23%! One study presented in the paper release webinar also showed an improvement in APGAR scores. These models of care will usher in transformative change well beyond mortality reduction. BBN has been an early advocate for Midwifery Models of Care since 2007. See the link to the report https://lnkd.in/gjss63ds Roopa K S Madhavi Latha Sai Bhavani World Health Organization Nirmala Narasimmaiah International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Allisyn Moran

Today is #InternationalDayOfTheMidwife, where we honor the incredible contributions of midwives in supporting birthing people all over the world. In the US, midwives have an important role in supporting maternal health, especially for pregnant people of color and Black birthing people. For more information on the history of midwifery in the US, and in particular on how the midwifery here has its roots in West African traditions brought to the country by enslaved people, check out this article: https://lnkd.in/dyG8q4Tk

❇️How Does a Real Birth Teacher Trainer & Clinical Lead Support Our Mission? ❇️ Meet Sarah! 'I first undertook the RealBirth Workshop with Zoe in 2019, and fell in love with the course immediately. Later that year, I went on to do further training to become a RealBirth Trainer. This enabled me to facilitate training sessions for other birth professionals as well as families. As a registered midwife, the workshop aligns with my philosophy and beliefs about birth, and sparked a new love for my profession. The course highlights many important topics such as the hormones of labour and positive birth language, which aren’t usually covered in other antenatal education programmes. I have had the privilege of teaching the RealBirth Workshop to many midwives and other birth professionals over the last few years, and I absolutely love it. It is a challenging time in midwifery right now, and I love being able to spark the same passion in others that I felt when I first took the workshop. I enjoy getting back to the core of midwifery, reminding others of why we do the job that we do.  Midwifery needs a boost right now, and the profession needs midwives who are engaged, passionate, and rallying together to truly support and be ‘with women’ as our title suggests. My favourite part of teaching the workshop is when I see that moment in others. When midwives or other birth professionals leave with a new sense of passion and desire to take their new knowledge back into their everyday practice, ultimately creating better experiences for women and birthing people.' #RealBirth #Antenataleducation #Knowledgeispower #Midwiferyexcellence #equity 

I’m always surprised that people don’t know they have to option to choose to have their baby outside if the traditional models of care. Comments like ‘oh I didn’t even know that was a thing!’ Or ‘Is that even something people choose?’ Or even better ‘what happens if….x,y,z’ love a what if comment! Ok but What’s this private Midwifery stuff all about? In a very small nutshell…we are registered midwives who choose to practise outside the traditional offerings. We specialise in women centred, main character care, building relationships & choice into care bundles that clients can access at any point in this journey. Homebirth, hospital birth, caesarean support, long term postnatal care & loads more choice! It’s a turning tide out there in women’s & health & women are accessing the choice & finding care that works for them 💪🏻 If there was a different option on the table, would you have taken it? #Midwife #HomeBirth #PregnancyEducation #midwiferycare

**Updated by the UK National Health Service in April 2024. Please pause and think about the UK approach to supporting choices in childbirth. Read their public facing document. “Find out what's in your area. Your midwife will discuss the options available in your area but if you're willing to travel, you're free to choose any maternity services.” How is it that a country (and surrounding national Trusts) with over 1 million deliveries during 2022-23 recognizes the midwife as the entry into care. The midwife supports/assess/directs the family on all options, and the midwives attend the majority of births. How is it that UK families have better outcomes than the US? https://lnkd.in/gxj6Ddk7... Outcomes across UK urban and rural region: Cesarean rate 23% Epidural rate 12% First prenatal visit within first 12 weeks 77% Induction rate 33% Maternal mortality 13.41/100,000 Do you have an explanation as to why the US is unwilling to mainstream midwifery? This is just one example from the European countries. #GrowMidwives #scalingupandsustainingmidwifery #stoptheresearch #fundtheanswers https://shorturl.at/pT9PQ