Background Per the 2014 Japanese Midwives Association (JMA) guidelines, midwives were allowed to manage the deliveries for group B streptococcus (GBS)-positive pregnant women in labour at maternity homes without the supervision of a medical doctor if they complied with the guidelines of the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (JSOG), wherein midwives working for maternity homes are expec...

BACKGROUND A major change in the organisation of maternity care in the Netherlands is under consideration, going from an echelon system where midwives provide primary care in the community and refer to obstetricians for secondary and tertiary care, to a more integrated maternity care system involving midwives and obstetricians at all care levels. Student midwives are the future maternity care p...

Sara Erol1, Banu Aydın1, Dilek Dilli1, Barış Malbora2, Serdar Beken1, Hasibe Gökçe Çınar3, Ayşegül Zenciroğlu1, nurullah Okumuş1 1Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Children Training and Research Hospital, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Ankara, Turkey 2Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Children Training and Research Hospital, Pediatric Hematology Unit, Ankara, Turkey 3Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Children Tra...

Introduction: A Midwifery Trained Registered Nurse (MTRN) is a member of the multi-professional maternity health care team in Sri Lanka. Her contribution to the maternity care team is poorly understood, often undermined, and undefined. In the context of low- and middle-income settings where traditional midwives play a crucial role in domiciliary care, the MTRNs role as a member of the multi-pro...

in this study the iron status of pregnant women in two different socio-economic groups and also the effect of multigravidity on iron status of the mothers were investigated. blood samples were with drawn from 165 mothers (91 from farah and 74 from missaghieh maternity hospital) immediately after delivery and hemoglobin, hematocrit, serum iron, total iron-binding capacity (tibc) and total protei...

OBJECTIVE This paper articulates the importance of accurately identifying maternity services. It describes the process and challenges of identifying the number, level and networks of rural and remote maternity services in public hospitals serving communities of between 1000 and 25000 people across Australia, and presents the findings of this process. METHODS Health departments and the nationa...

INTRODUCTION Between 2000 and 2004, 17 small rural maternity care services in British Columbia (BC) closed or were placed under moratoria. This paper explores the experiences of care providers in 4 rural BC communities that have lost or are at risk of losing their local maternity services. METHODS We conducted qualitative, semistructured interviews and focus groups with 27 health care provide...

There are significant health disparities in maternity care in the United States. One way to decrease these disparities may be to improve prenatal care among underserved minority women. This article reviews cultural and ethnic issues that may impact maternity care within 5 different groups of women commonly seen by maternity care providers in Wisconsin: African American, Latina, Hmong, Amish, an...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the maternal and perinatal outcomes of Alberta's regionalized system of care. In particular, to compare the outcomes of communities with limited or no local intrapartum care with those of regional and tertiary care centres. METHODS We conducted a population-based retrospective study of all Alberta deliveries in 1999 and 2000. Maternal outcome measures were rates of patie...