Overcoming fear of facilitating water birth: student and mentor perspectives [0.03%]
师生视角下的水中分娩恐惧克服方法研究
Feeley Claire,Elizabeth Marie Drew
Feeley Claire
Water immersion for labour and birth is a powerful, low cost intervention that facilitates physiological birth. However, for some midwives - students or qualified - a lack of exposure to water births can create fearful perceptions and reduc...
Gemma Boyd
Gemma Boyd
Using theatre methods and techniques in post registration education has the unique advantage of facilitating learning that is based in the reality of practice yet in a safe space free from the demands and pressures of the work place. It off...
Jancis Shepherd
Jancis Shepherd
Becoming a midwife is the 16th series of'Midwifery basics' targeted at practising midwives and midwifery students. The aim of these articles is to provide information to raise awareness of the impact of professionalism on women's experience...
Christian Wright,Sadie Geraghty
Christian Wright
In the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States of America and Europe, universal and routine screening is recommended for pregnant women, extending into the postnatal period. However, the lack of self-confidence among midwives and midwi...
Hormonal physiology of childbearing: evidence and implications for women, babies and maternity care [0.03%]
生育的激素生理学：对妇女、婴儿和孕产期保健的影响及相关证据
Alys Einion
Alys Einion
Report review runs alongside Guideline commentary and the other evidence series articles, examining local, national and international reports that have implications directly or indirectly for midwives. It helps readers to understand what re...
Michal Liebergall-Wischnitzer,Nava Braverman,David Shveiky et al.
Michal Liebergall-Wischnitzer et al.
Obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS) can have a very negative impact on women's health and quality of life. Literature exists concerning the role of the surgeon and physiotherapist after OASIS, but there is a dearth of literature perta...
Claire Feeley
Claire Feeley
Current changes in midwifery raise concerns about the erosion of women's choices and midwives' autonomy. This article is an exploration of women's legal rights that relate to consent and declining care. Using examples of poor practice, wome...
Community management of lactational mastitis and/or breast abscess: a retrospective audit [0.03%]
哺乳期乳腺炎和/或乳房脓肿的社区管理：回顾性审计
Hillary Hu,Marisa Martin,Hayley Diplock et al.
Hillary Hu et al.
Lactational mastitis has an incidence of around 10 per cent in postpartum women, with breast abscess complicating some of these.The key principles of treatment include: supportive counselling, warm or cold compresses, effective milk removal...
Lesley Kay
Lesley Kay
Studying for a doctoral degree can be an exciting, invigorating and ultimately satisfying process but equally it can be a long, arduous, frustrating and lonely journey. In this article I speak of my own experience of the process and offer s...
Jancis Shepherd
Jancis Shepherd
Becoming a midwife is the 16th series of'Midwifery basics'targeted at practising midwives and midwifery students. The aim of these articles is to provide information to raise awareness of the impact of professionalism on women's experience,...