Haley Williams - 16-02-2023
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
AAP - 02-02-2023
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.
AAP - 29-11-2022
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.
AAP - 22-07-2022
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 rate
AAP - 07-05-2022
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 to
Charlotte Mitchell - 22-04-2022
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
Charlotte Mitchell - 22-03-2022
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
Karen Keast - 14-09-2016
Hannah Dahlen - The renowned midwifery advocate discusses her career, medical interventions in births, home births, and relationship-based care. Karen:
Nicole Madigan - 14-12-2021
COVID-19 has impacted almost every aspect of our lives, and giving birth has been no different. Lockdowns and health protocols have meant restrictions on the number of people
Nicole Madigan - 25-08-2021
Birth plans have become an increasingly popular part of the preparation ritual for expectant mothers, but many women struggle with what to include in their plan, and worry
Haley Williams - 19-08-2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided opportunities to explore telehealth out of pure necessity. And while sceptics believed it would lead to medical mishaps and misdiagnosis,
Haley Williams - 16-08-2021
It's well established that a healthy diet and exercise are vital to a healthy pregnancy and delivery, but sleep is also crucial. Unfortunately, of the 300,000 women who
Nicole Madigan - 24-06-2021
Ensuring all professions involved in the care of pregnant women and new mothers are connected became a passion for midwife, Kathy Fray, who launched the International Integrative
Haley Williams - 09-11-2020
The physical and emotional toll of pregnancy can be overwhelming, and one in five women
Haley Williams - 09-09-2020
Waterbirth is now banned at many maternity hospitals due to government guidelines that detail an 'unacceptable risk' of COVID-19 transmission. It's a controversial
Haley Williams - 18-02-2023
Despite experiencing a difficult first birth and pre-emptively lodging an ‘Informed Decisions-Birth Plan’, Grace* says her second birth experience resulted
Haley Williams - 15-02-2021
Pregnancy is commonly associated with a decline in women's physical activity, but the benefits of exercise during the antennal period are considerable. And while midwives
Haley Williams - 15-07-2020
Uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 has many Australians in a heightened state of health anxiety. So, it's unsurprising that pregnant women have experienced fears around
Health Insights - 31-10-2016
Fetal surveillance consists of a number
Karen Keast - 12-02-2016
Hannah Dahlen understands the heartache of losing a baby at birth. The renowned privately practising midwife and mum lost two of her own babies, shortly after
HealthTimes - 03-12-2015
There are 33,490 midwives and dual registered nurse midwives practising in Australia (according to data from the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia).
Karen Keast - 30-06-2015
Australia’s privately practising midwives providing birthing services in the home have been unable to access professional indemnity insurance (PII) since the collapse
Sharon Smith - 15-04-2018
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
Karen Keast - 19-04-2017
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
Karen Keast - 16-02-2017
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,
Karen Keast - 10-11-2016
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
Karen Keast - 19-10-2016
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.
Karen Keast - 21-04-2015
Australian midwifery researchers are part of an international collaboration investigating whether the way women give birth
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