Nicole Madigan - 08-09-2017

 For a long time, women’s expectations of labour and birth were fairly straightforward. Most planned for a natural birth, assumed their partner would be by their

Karen Keast - 09-06-2017

A pioneering midwifery-led program is supporting pregnant women’s emotional wellbeing in private sector maternity services. Sydney’s

Karen Keast - 12-10-2015

Midwives have more opportunities than ever before to access their education at home, at the click of a button. With rapid advances in technology, e-learning for

HealthTimes - 12-02-2015

Midwifery can be a very rewarding career.  If you’re interested in becoming a midwife, you might have heard some stories about childbirth

Karen Keast - 12-02-2015

Recent changes to the way maternity services are provided in Australia have opened the doors to midwives being able to prescribe PBS medicines. As Karen Keast discovered,

Karen Keast - 12-02-2015

Water is a life force in more ways than one - it covers more than 70 per cent of our earth and we drink it to survive. When it comes to using water for childbirth,

Karen Keast - 12-02-2015

How do privately practising midwives gain their prescriber number and script pad? The road to prescribing medication is no simple undertaking but worth the effort,