BACKGROUND Current national and international maternity policy supports the importance of addressing public health goals and investing in early years. Health care providers for women during the reproductive and early postnatal period have the opportunity to encourage women to make choices that will impact positively on maternal and fetal health. Midwives are in a unique position, given the emph...

1 PICU and Children’s Nursing Research Unit, Alder Hey Children’s NHS, Liverpool, United Kingdom. 2 University of Central Lancashire, School of Health, Preston, United Kingdom. 3 Intensive Care Neonatology, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 4 Intensive Care Neonatology, Emma Children’s Hospital, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlan...

Background: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is widely used by women and midwives in maternity care despite the lack of strong evidence for safety or efficacy. The purpose of this research was to investigate how midwives in primary midwifery care practice in two countries use CAM. Methods: A pre-tested survey was administered to all registered midwives (265) in two provinces of Cana...

In this column, the support for advancing normal birth is summarized, based on a comparison of the goals of Healthy People 2010, Lamaze International, the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services, and the midwifery model of care. Research abstracts are presented to provide evidence that the midwifery model of care safely and economically advances normal birth. Rates of intervention experience...

1. Renfrew MJ, Cheyne H, Craig J, Duff E, Dykes F, Hunter B, Lavender T, Page L, Ross-Davie M, Spiby Downe S. Sustaining quality midwifery care in a pandemic and beyond. Midwifery. 2020 Sep; 88: 102759. doi: 10.1016/j.midw.2020.102759. Epub May 25. CrossRef Google Scholar

background & aim: maternal satisfaction of health services is an inherent element of healthcare policies, and quality of midwifery care essentially influences this parameter. this study aimed to evaluate maternal satisfaction of postpartum care and its association with midwifery care at the urban health centers of mashhad, iran in 2012. methods:this descriptive, cross sectional study was conduc...

In most countries, maternal and newborn care is fragmented and focused on identification and treatment of pathology that affects only the minority of women and babies. Recently, a framework for quality maternal and newborn care was developed, which encourages a system-level shift to provide skilled care for all. This care includes preventive and supportive care that works to strengthen women's ...