Midwives

NZ Midwifery Build Strong Partnership Flier

Please adapt this flier for your own practice.  Every pregnant woman is in partnership with her maternity provider whether the...

2015 New Zealand Maternity Report

Has The New Zealand Midwifery Model Of Care Failed? .. No … Ah … There’s An Easy Gap To Fill

Facebook is SO interesting. Only a few people read our post on A COUNTRY WITH MIDWIVES, CHOICE, INFORMED CONSENT AND...

Has The New Zealand Of Midwifery Care Failed … Yes … Ah … No .. There’s a Gap That is Easy To Fill

Facebook is SO interesting. Only a few people read our post on A COUNTRY WITH MIDWIVES, CHOICE, INFORMED CONSENT AND...

New Zealand … A Country With Midwives, Choice, Informed Consent, and Home Birth … What Could Go Wrong?

While so many have and continue to struggle for political change in maternity care, let’s look at a country that...

Why Midwifery Alone Can Not Solve Childbirth Issues

All these posts are attempting to do one thing … grow a Skills-based approach to all pregnancies and every birth....

Birth Plans And Birth Choices Have Failed Midwives

Regardless of how you feel about childbirth issues: home vs hospital, natural vs medical the majority of expectant families would...

How Midwives Can Help Grow A Self-Learning Skilled Birthing Population

In the last few posts and this one we’ve discussed the role of those dedicated women (mostly women) who love...

Choice-based Childbirth Fails Too Many Midwives

Before the next post why many choices -few skills fail babies, I want to ask you to envision these scenarios...

Midwives Can Lead BirthingBetter The Way To A Powerful Change In Childbirth

Growing a skilled birthing population What is a Skills-based childbirth trend and why do we absolutely need one?  Since the...

Midwifery Care In All Forms

This resource is for both of you to read and talk about if you either have a continuity of care...

Why A New Zealand Midwife Strengthened Her Partnership

“In 2000 I found myself feeling very discouraged about my practice. The caesarean rate was 26.9%. I would have quit...

NZ Midwife 2-Year Training/Supporting You

Because New Zealand midwives work autonomously, making change in society means you need support as you strengthen your own partnership....

NZ Midwife 2-Year Training/The Concept

The Concept=A societal message that it is normal and natural that all expectant parents self-learn birth and coaching skills then...

NZ Midwife 2-Year Training/Midwife Participation

A skilled birthing population is a new Concept. 'Choice' and seeing birth as either/or is familiar. Having all expectant parents...