Course: Maternity Care: Building Relationships Really Does Save Lives

This week You heard how the maternity system affected one woman – Janet – and saw how her experience is not uncommon, with women facing increased medicalisation, disrupted, rude or …

In this video, the background and central findings of the Lancet Series on Midwifery is discussed. Their key finding, based on decades of research in maternity health care, is this: …

You’ve seen from the course so far that things can’t carry on as they are. Levels of intervention are rising globally, but poor outcomes are not decreasing at the same …

You’ll know Mary Sidebotham as one of the lead educators of this course. also leads an international consortium of researchers called WHELM (Work, Health, and Emotional Lives of Midwives) who …

It’s not just women who are impacted by the current maternity care system: midwives are unhappy and dissatisfied too. One of the main reasons why midwives consider leaving the profession …

In an ideal maternity care system, all health professionals involved collaborate using their different areas of expertise as and when needed during the pregnancy, birth and postpartum period. The hope …

You would have noticed in Janet’s story that she had very little control over what was happening to her. She wasn’t able to even express her desires or choices clearly …

Central to the care of pregnant and birthing women are the relationships that sustain them and their families in the transition to parenthood. Pregnancy and birth care have traditionally been …

This is the story of one woman – Janet – recounting what happened during her pregnancy, at the time of birth, and immediately after. Unfortunately, though, it’s also the story …

What comes to mind when you think of maternity care? Is it only about taking care of women at the time of birth? Is pregnancy included? How about after the …