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What Promotes Joy
Published in Eve Shapiro, Joy in Medicine?, 2020
In Canada, midwives are not nurses, and nurses are not midwives. There is no overlap. If you’re a nurse and you want to become a midwife, you have to go to midwifery school. And if you’re a midwife and you want to be a nurse you have to go to nursing school. So, I came here and went to nursing school. I felt I had a good base for working here when I finally graduated.
Midwifery and obstetrics
Published in Roy Palmer, Diana Wetherill, Medicine for Lawyers, 2020
Beverley Gordon, Gareth Thomas
There is no line of distinction between midwifery and obstetrics. In practice, a midwife will assist a woman through normal pregnancy and childbirth while an obstetrician is trained to manage any abnormalities encountered during that time. Midwives must know how to prevent or detect those abnormalities in a skilled and timely manner.1 Equally they have a duty to inform and acknowledge patient choice. Sometimes the balance can be very difficult to achieve.
Postnatal care
Published in Helen Baston, Midwifery, 2020
The midwife is a practitioner in her own right and is the expert in caring for women experiencing straightforward pregnancies and births. However, she is also part of a wider multidisciplinary team and is obliged to refer to other specialists if she detects a problem or the mother’s and/or infant’s condition deteriorates. Midwives continue to provide care for women who have been referred, ensuring they continue to receive information about parenting and infant feeding, to continue their transition to parenthood despite any medical or obstetric complications.
The influence of laughter yoga on pregnancy symptoms, mental well-being, and prenatal attachment: A randomized controlled study
Published in Health Care for Women International, 2023
Safiye Ağapınar Şahin, Mine Bekar
In the literature, researchers have indicated pregnancy as a period of significant social, biophysical, and psychological changes (Taşkın, 2016). Pregnancy is a cultural phenomenon that expresses different feelings for all women. For most women, pregnancy is a period when they change their lifestyles and adapt (Raynor & England, 2010). During this period, 13.6% of women experience at least one pregnancy-related problem (Dönmez et al., 2018). Pregnancy-related physical and mental problems may adversely affect a woman’s quality of life (Can et al., 2019). During this period, midwives provide information to pregnant women and support them by offering options regarding health care services. These options include traditional therapies and some complementary alternative therapies that can support the health and well-being of pregnant women (Peprah et al., 2017). Savage et al. (2017) stated that health care professionals could use the power of laughter to promote health. In another study, the researchers concluded that laughter yoga was a practice that could be used in health promotion programs (Miles et al., 2016). Considering all these results, non-pharmacological laughter yoga, which pregnant women can easily apply, can be a supportive practice for midwifery practices.
The unseen aspect of negative birth experience: Blues of birth
Published in Health Care for Women International, 2023
It has been determined that the social environment is misguiding about mother–infant relationship, which is vital for healthy child development. Reasons such as poor communication with individuals who provide postpartum social support, transferring their own experiences, and exhibiting erroneous behaviors when not implemented may cause negative effects on the mother (Alan & Ege, 2013; Cinar et al., 2015). Therefore, midwives providing postpartum care to women have important duties. For protecting the physiological and psychological health in postnatal care, it is important to treat mothers and their newborns as well as their spouses and families in a holistic manner, to provide counseling in the light of scientific and evidence-based information, and to correct erroneous practices known as correct.
Enhancing interprofessional collaboration and interprofessional education in women’s health
Published in Medical Education Online, 2022
Laura Baecher-Lind, Angela C. Fleming, Rashmi Bhargava, Susan M. Cox, Elise N. Everett, David A. Forstein, Shireen Madani Sims, Helen K. Morgan, Christopher M. Morosky, Celeste S. Royce, Tammy S. Sonn, Jill M. Sutton, Scott C. Graziano
Obstetrics and Gynecology has long been a collaborative specialty. Even well into the 20th century, women sought care from traditional birth attendants for expertise in pregnancy and childbirth rather than from a physician. In the 1940s, nurse midwifery was promoted by public health nurses, social reformers, and obstetricians in order to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality [10]. Expertise in pregnancy and childbirth is now shared between obstetricians and other health-care providers including nurse midwives, family medicine physicians, women’s health nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and doulas. Nearly 13% of women in the USA choose a midwife rather than an obstetrician for their care [11]. Women receiving care with midwives experience fewer interventions in labor and have reduced risks of cesarean section or operative vaginal delivery [12]. It is recognized that increasing access to and learning best practices from nurse midwifery may be a primary strategy to continuing to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality in the USA [11–13]. Team-training, a form of interprofessional education, has been shown to reduce rates of adverse obstetric events including return to the operating room and birth injury [14].