The Hypnobirthing Mum

25/01/2024

🤰🏻ARE YOU PREGNANT OR WORK WITH PREGNANT/BIRTHING COUPLES 🤰🏻

🙌🏻 One-off event happening in SYDNEY on Sunday 11th February, 9:30-4:30….

⭐️The Pain, Power & Physiology of Birth ⭐️

Speakers include Rhea Dempsey, Liz Newnham and Kate Levett.

🩷 Rhea Dempsey – author of “Birth with confidence” and “Beyond the birth plan”, childbirth educator, doula, counsellor.

💜 Liz Newnham – academic, researcher, midwife, author of “Towards the humanisation of birth”, PhD studies on the contrast between water for pain relief and epidurals.

🧡 Kate Levett – acupuncturist, academic, researcher, lead author of the 2016 study of a birth course that showed a 65% reduction in epidurals and 44% reduction in caesareans.

Open to birthing professionals and pregnant couples (only 1 ticket needed for a couple). Student rates available for student midwives/doulas etc

Here is a link along with ticket options - https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/pain-power-physiology-of-birth-rhea-dempsey-liz-newnham-kate-levett-tickets-742961436657

We’d love to see you there gaining valuable insights on preparing for and supporting an empowering birth experience!!

Join Rhea Dempsey, Liz Newnham & Kate Levett for this one day event on the Pain, Power & Physiology of labour and birth!

15/03/2023

08/02/2023

There is such amazing content in The Practising Midwife journal Australia x

20/01/2023

10/11/2022

Hi all

As a member of the editorial team at The Practising Midwife journal Australia I’d appreciate it if you could go give it a follow and share any useful/relevant posts that come from the page now and going forward.

Thanks in advance
Kerry x

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086643551752

This evidence-based, practice-focused online midwifery journal is essential reading for midwives, student midwives and birth workers 🤱🏽

FREE with All4Maternity membership!

08/11/2022

The Lancet estimates that expanding midwifery care by 25% over 5 years would result in 41% reduction in maternal deaths, and a 39% reduction in infant mortality.

This equates to 170,000 women’s lives saved and 1.2 million infants per year, by 2035.

Want to learn exactly how midwives will do this? Follow the campaign as we aim to make these results a reality!

03/08/2022

Some new research out yesterday by Stoliar et al 2022 called ‘a national survey of Australian midwives’ birth choices and outcomes’ (its open access so anyone can read it for free) shows that 25% of midwives (1 in 4) want to have a homebirth and that 11.2% actually did. Which is significantly higher than the national average of women who were able to access homebirth services which is 0.4%.

What else did this research find:
- 16.8% of midwives had Caesarean, compared to the national average of 37%
- 45% of midwives accessed continuity of midwifery care compared to the national access to midwifery continuity of care at 17.1%
- 95.8% of midwives had a preference for normal vaginal birth and 66% achieved this

Of the midwives who chose to give birth at home, their reasons for doing so included:
- being able to choose their care provider
- access to continuity of midwifery care
- to limit birth intervention
- they wanted to avoid time pressures, Induction of labour, coercion and the risk agenda of the hospital

98% of these midwives stated that they ‘think there is a higher chance of obstetric emergencies occurring within a hospital setting’

The researchers commented that insider knowledge influenced midwives choices…

*National average stats taken from Australian mothers and babies report