💫 WELCOME to February issue of The Practising Midwife journal AUSTRALIA issue!

We have a treat in store for you! This latest issue is packed with rich midwifery knowledge and inspiration 🌟

Evidence-based and practice-focused, with engaging illustrations.

What’s inside? 👇🏽

🤱🏽Dr @hazelkeedle introduces the issue’s theme, ‘More than a Number’, which explores the challenges of not providing individualised, women-centred care and how this dehumanises women and birthing people that access maternity care.

🤱🏽Kathy Solanki et al present a workshop for midwifery students at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) designed to increase assessment and communications required to screen for perinatal mental health concerns.

🤱🏽’Medical Dominance: Are Midwives and Women Just Another Number’? In this article, Sally Hargreaves, Midwife and PhD candidate, explores the impact of medicalisation on midwifery care.

🤱🏽How Can Consent Be Trusted?
Obstetric violence is a rampant epidemic spotlighted in research and the NSW Birth Trauma inquiry. Catherine Bell Birth Cartographer discusses a new solution on the horizon and asks us to shift from consent and shared decision making into birth mapping.

🤱🏽This primary research article by @Bernadette_pulis et al report midwives’ perspectives on factors contributing to women’s psychological birthing trauma, including recommendations for practice. Carolyn Hastie Roz D-Fernandez

🤱🏽A continuation of the Voices series on midwives and people in the maternity space who become authors. Written by Hazel Keedle this is an excellent reflective piece on Hazel’s path unveiling VBAC stories.

🤱🏽You can access this exciting issue now at All4Maternity, the home of The Practising Midwife Australia! Membership also includes access to ThePractisingMidwife and The Student Midwife Journal as well as blog posts, eLearn modules and our newly launched HUB and App!

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