Vol 10 Issue 1
FOCUS ON: PREGNANCY, LABOUR AND BIRTH WHEN MATERNITY SERVICES FALL SHORT
IN THIS ISSUE:
- Midwives’ lived experiences of promoting normal birth in an Alongside Midwife Unit in the United Kingdom
- Ask women what they want: Integrating pregnancy desire screening into routine primary care
- First trimester miscarriage: Why it matters
- Maternity Choices: Reframing maternity care reform after decades of Australian government inaction
- ‘A lone voice in the wind’: The importance of listening to the testimonies of women during pregnancy, birth, and beyond
- Maternity scandal implications for antenatal teachers: A view from ground zero
Maternity services and our practice as Educators
Author: Jane Svensson
Author title: Co-Editor
Description: Jane Svensson, Co-Editor
Description writer: In this my first editorial, I welcome you to Sydney, Australia, and to myself as the new Co-editor of the journal.
Midwives’ lived experiences of promoting normal birth in an Alongside Midwife Unit in the United Kingdom
Author: Tina Dennis
Author title: Senior Lecturer
Description: Tina Dennis, Senior Lecturer
Description writer: Senior Lecturer, Department of Midwifery, Three Counties School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Worcester, Worcester, UK.
Ask women what they want: Integrating pregnancy desire screening into routine primary care
Authors: Michele Stranger Hunter, Karin Hammarberg, Jonathan Sher
Description writers:
Michele Stranger Hunter, Founder of ONE KEY QUESTION® & Consultant at Power to Decide, USA Psychologist
Karin Hammarberg, Senior Research Fellow at School of Population Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University and Senior Research Officer at Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority, Australia
Jonathan Sher, Senior Fellow and Programme Lead of Healthier Pregnancies, Better Lives, Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland
First trimester miscarriage: Why it matters
Authors: Pedro Melo, Adam Devall, Arri Coomarasamy
Description writers:
Pedro Melo, PhD Student, University of Birmingham, UK; National Coordinator of the ProFET study, ‘Serum progesterone in women undergoing frozen embryo transfer’
Adam Devall, Deputy Director of the Tommy’s National Centre for Miscarriage Research;
Associate Professor of Maternal Health Clinical Trials, Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, UK Arri Coomarasamy, Professor of Gynaecology, Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, UK
Maternity Choices: Reframing maternity care reform after decades of Australian government inaction
Author: Joanna Schuurman
Description writers: Representative of Maternity Choices Australia
‘A lone voice in the wind’: The importance of listening to the testimonies of women during pregnancy, birth, and beyond
Author: Alexandra Sewell
Description writers: Senior Lecturer at the University of Worcester, Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) Registered Educational Psychologist, Co-Editor of the IJBPE
Maternity scandal implications for antenatal teachers: A view from ground zero
Author: Bridget Supple
Description writers: Antenatal teacher with National Childbirth Trust /National Heath Service/Birth Companions, Founder of BabysBiome.org, Author of ‘The Birthkeeper of Bethlehem’
Interesting times: Crises and opportunities
Author: Sally Hogg
Description writers: Policy Fellow at the Centre for Play in Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL), University of Cambridge
Evaluating your birth and parenting classes
Author: Emerita Professor Mary Nolan
Description writers: Founding editor of the International Journal of Birth and Parent Education