Midwifery

Childbirth is an exciting and nerve-wracking time for any expectant parent, and planning for the birth can feel overwhelming. The concept of a ‘natural birth’

The miracle of childbirth is just that – a miracle. So many women go into it overly prepared with a very clear path they’re hoping their birth will take. However,

Professor Deborah Lupton from the University of Canberra has been researching social and cultural dimensions of health and medicine throughout her career, with a more recent

Birth rooms with projected images on surrounding walls, moving the bed out of the centre of the room, adding baths for water immersion, and including a mantel for the woman

Self-employed continuity of care midwives work more hours but have lower levels of burnout, anxiety, stress and depression than midwives working in New Zealand’s hospitals,

Only a small number of new graduate midwives are working in continuity of care maternity models across Australia despite universities educating students to work in the ‘gold

Listening to mothers can expose gaps in maternity care and can work to improve policy, practice, education and research, according to a United States researcher.

Australian midwifery researchers are part of an international collaboration investigating whether the way women give birth