OBJECTIVES To compare the Optimality Index of planned birth in a birth centre with planned birth in a hospital and planned home birth for low-risk term pregnant women who start labour under the responsibility of a community midwife. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Low-risk pregnant women under care of a community midwife and living in a region with one of the 21 participating Dutch...

Accessibility Tools Increase Text Decrease Grayscale High Contrast Negative Light Background Links Underline Readable Font Reset Search here... Racism Matters 6. This Hurts Us Much More Than it You: The Lived Experiences of Black, Asian and Multi-Racial Student Midwives Alicia Burnett (Student Midwife, Editor-in-Chief Midwife) 1st February 2021 by All4Maternity . Posted in " Basics, Midwifery A...

BACKGROUND Home birth remains a contentious issue in North America. Professional regulatory bodies are in conflict about the safety of home birth as an option for healthy women. The voices of women have largely been ignored in this debate. The purpose of this study is to report on the experiences of 559 women who had a planned home birth over a 2-year period in British Columbia, Canada. METHO...

BACKGROUND Continuation of delivery care by a midwife, and establishing a relationship between the midwife and the delivering woman, is so important for women, and preserving such relationship increases woman's calmness and self-confidence. The current research aims at studying the effect of midwifery continuing care during delivery on delivery outcomes. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was a...

Aim: To compare the change of maternal outlook towards birth due to a midwife led antenatal education programme versus hypnoreflexogenous self-hypnosis training for childbirth. Method: Before beginning of the classes and after the last class maternal perception on birth was evaluated using Osgood semantic differential questionnaire. The Gießen personality score was evaluated once. Results: 213 ...

introduction: medication errors are among the most serious health errors threatening patient safety in all countries, with major impacts on public health. midwives as members of healthcare systems are prone to such errors. therefore, in this study, we aimed to determine medication errors and the contributing factors among midwives working in maternity units of mashhad university of medical scie...

The controversy surrounding the alleged Lamarckian fraud of Paul Kammerer's midwife toad experiments has intrigued generations of biologists. A re-examination of his descriptions of hybrid crosses of treated and nontreated toads reveals parent-of-origin effects like those documented in epigenetic inheritance. Modification of the extracellular matrix of the egg as described by Kammerer provides ...

BACKGROUND To compare experienced continuity of care among women who received midwife-led versus obstetrician-led care. Secondly, to compare experienced continuity of care with a. experienced quality of care during labor and b. perception of labor. METHODS We conducted a questionnaire survey in a region in the Netherlands in 2014 among 790 women after they gave birth. To measure experienced c...

OBJECTIVE to describe women's experiences of having a doula present during childbirth. DESIGN AND SETTING a qualitative study with a phenomenological approach in two large Swedish cities. Data were collected via open-ended taped interviews 1-2 months after childbirth. The analysis of the text of transcripts included search for meaning units sorted into clusters for a final expression of the e...