Lack of movement Hospitals Cervical sweeps Forceps/ventouse Beds Scalp electrodes When running a workshop to Strengthen The Partnership Model between New Zealand midwives and their clients, our Trust asked: ‘What is your goal as a profession?’ (NZ midwives give...
These are the interventions I’m going to discuss today. IV fluids Pharmaceuticals Handling/overtouching Directing Cesareans Episiotomies Where did this list come from (since there are 5 episodes in this series)? They came from a question I asked to groups of New...
That ONE word (Intervention) has brought havoc to the childbirth conversation. Where did it come from? What does it mean? How do you fit your coming birth into this one word? This is a 5 Part Series within an ongoing Bigger Series about You and Childbirth. Why is it...
I’m doing this series in the middle of the COVID-19 issue and there is a similarity in how we feel about risks in childbirth and COVID. 1) We can be terrified that we’ll catch COVID or have a ‘risk’ in pregnancy/birth and that death will ensue. 2) We poo-poo this...
First, let’s just get clear who birth professionals are: 1) Obstetricians 2) General Practice doctors 3) Midwives 4) Labor and Delivery Nurses Then there are heaps and heaps of auxiliary folks: 1) Childbirth Educators 2) Doulas 3) Other practitioners who work with...
Childbirth Trends have changed throughout Time. For most of our human history, birth just happened to women because ‘There’s no way to know what your birth will be like’. Then modernity started to happen especially after World War 2 when electricity, indoor plumbing,...
