Midwifery

Queensland's health minister will meet with representatives of the state's midwives this week as they march on parliament to highlight unsafe conditions.

Professor Sally Tracy, an Australian midwife, midwifery researcher, author and activist comes from a long line of midwives

Two homebirths that required an ambulance to be called have landed a Melbourne midwife with a suspension. Ulyana Kora will be suspended for three months after

A study from the Royal Women’s Hospital and La Trobe University confirms Aboriginal, and Torres Strait Islander families receive high standards of care when patients

Pregnant women in Victoria's second-largest city will have to find a new hospital after Epworth HealthCare confirmed plans to close its maternity service in Geelong.

Pregnant patients in the Victorian city of Geelong are searching for a new hospital after one of the largest in the region announced plans to close its maternity service.

Australia has reported its lowest birth rate in more than a decade, as the average age of first-time parents continues to increase. The country's birth

Sarah Watts delivered her first baby before she became a midwife. While working as a nurse in a general ward at a hospital in rural England, Ms Watts tended

A ground-breaking project set up to protect the health of Aboriginal mothers and their families in rural communities by optimising the screening and management of hyperglycaemia

For NSW-based midwife Astra Joynt, her work is about much more than just caring for women giving birth. It’s about developing relationships with families, and setting

Over the past 2 years we have avoided hugs and handshakes, stayed at home and quarantined, and experienced important life events alone. We have been reduced to

Researchers at Monash University have developed new software which delivers advanced sound quality of heart and lung monitoring for preterm and full term babies, and can be

Growing evidence shows that many parents begin the decision-making process about infant vaccination during pregnancy and these decisions – once established – may

Being able to make positive change in a patient’s journey is the driving force behind Jane Palmer’s career as a midwife. “It mightn't

Clementine and Felix Widdup were born 13 weeks early weighing less than a kilogram, after their mother Georgia got the pregnancy complication preeclampsia.

Every year, 15 million babies worldwide are born preterm – before the 37th week of gestation – and thanks to advances in healthcare, survival rates are higher

When Sophie and her husband knew they wanted to try for a baby, she knew what precautions to take. She stopped smoking a year before coming off contraception;

Having been a midwife for 20 years, Claire Black* thought she'd seen it all. That was until one day during the midst of one of Victoria's lockdowns.

A USC researcher who has designed a novel 3D system that can mimic the cellular architecture of a human placenta has been awarded a Federal Ideas grant to continue her innovative

Helping to bring a child into the world should be classed as one of life’s essential services, and the enormous global success of the British television series “Call