The Pros And Cons Of Traditional Birth Attendants

“The Business of Being Born” In America and globally, we are known to do things differently apart from other countries, and sometimes it is beneficial, but by doing things differently; are we setting ourselves in the lead or few steps back? For hundred of years, women have wrestled with their womanhood,

Barriers to providing care from a midwife’s point of view and staff qualities Midwives felt there were many barriers to care provision. The key findings were limited flexibility, length of hospital stay, structured care, inadequate midwife-to-woman ratios and the busyness of postnatal wards (Rayner 2009 b; McLachlan, 2006, Fenwick, 2009, brown 2005). They said that too much paperwork associated with admissions and discharges were a major barrier as well (Schmied, 2007) and that they felt staff levels needed to increase considering the intensive postnatal care required over 2-3 days, especially in areas such as breastfeeding (ranyer 2009 b). Many of these factors are outside of the midwives control but subsequently affect the time spent with the woman (Rayner

A midwife plays a vital role in promoting and protecting physiological birth. It is important to a midwife to understand what is and how important for the woman to go through the process of physiological birth. Midwives have to make the woman understand and encourage them to have physiological birth without any interruptions. In the essay, it explains what role and how midwives help the woman in promoting and protecting physiological birth. Firstly, by defining physiological birth, what outcomes are considered to be a safe psychological birth. It also focuses on that are not referred as a normal psychological birth. Secondly it explains how midwives use the competency skills in protecting and promoting physiological birth. Midwives have to

This essay demonstrates significant factors, a midwife and the women may face within Australian public hospitals. As a midwife the key skills are understanding of what supports and impacts the normal physiological process of labour and birth. This essay will discuss two influencing factors that have a negative effect on the normal progress of labour and birth. This will be seen, firstly by discussing the cultural and environmental impacts of labour and birth. Then, examining how the midwife may best support and facilitate the adverse effects of normal physiological process. This essay also discusses a positive labour and birth environment within the Australian standard model of care.

In the United States, the process of childbirth is far more dangerous for African American women than it is for White women. For African American women, the path to a healthy birth is riddled with barriers. There are many health disparities between the two races. African American women face much higher low-birth and infant mortality rates; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published that although infant mortality rates in the U.S. have dropped by over 10% in the past ten years, a large gap continues to exist between the health of the races during the entire childbirth process. (World Health Organization, 2010) In the United States, Black infants are more than twice as likely to die within the first year of life as a White infant, and this disparity has not seen advancements in the last century. Many of these deaths can be attributed to low birth weight, and preterm birth among black infants.

The way people interact and live in North America is to this day impacted by colonial thought and beliefs that have been enforced through both the government and social constructs. The impacts are present subtly throughout our entire lives in Canada without us fully realizing the changes it enforces in social interactions and natural body functions. This paper will focus on the differences between Indigenous and “western” ways of birthing affect women, and how the processes of birth have changed and are currently changing. The question that guided the research for this paper was; How does Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe births and “western” Canadian births compare and how does resurgence, found in traditional births, influence cultural revitalization?

Advanced practice nurses to complete further care Allowing nurses to conquest more duties could help to save billions of dollars in medical care costs, which is why it’s appropriate for advanced practice nurses to complete more care on patients. Advanced practice nurses should complete care on patients at the furthest level

Description Due to cesarean section, it is proven that c-section birth causes infants to be at greater risk of developing a host of illnesses such as, asthma, type 1 diabetes, as they progress and grow older; As Australia has one of the highest c-section rates in the world with now at 32% of the population having a cesarean birth (s. McCulloch, 2018). Indigenous mothers are more likely to experience more long-term issues and even perinatal death compared to the 0.7% of non-aboriginal and non-Torres Strait islander mothers (The Department of Health, 2011).

I strongly believe in and support the mutual partnership that is established between Midwives, Wahine and their Whanau. It is an honour to be a part of women and their families journey to welcoming a new family member and I cherish the opportunity to be able to do this with them. Whilst pregnancy and childbirth is a normal, natural process of life, for some this can be complicated and I feel it is my responsibility to be able to walk with low risk and high risk women, injecting as much of my midwifery philosophy as I can into what might be a complex medical picture. By keeping practice hollistic and woman-centred this can be achieved. All women are entitled to make fully informed decisions and granted the time to do this. I am pro-choice and

Natural vs Epidural Natural birth without any drugs, or a birth with drugs so you can't feel how painful it is, what one would you choose?

The WHO report (3) estimates there are slightly more than 59 million health care workers in the world. Of the 4.3 million shortages, India appears as one of the dozens of countries with a critical shortage of health care providers (4-6). A Critical shortage of health care providers means for every given birth, less than 80 percent have skilled birth attendants present. The data further suggests that a country must have between 2.02 and 2.54 skilled birth attendants (doctors, nurses, or midwives) per 1000 population to support growth and maintain a strong health care system. Estimates place India at 1.87 skilled birth attendants per 1000 population (7).

Taking all these pieces into consideration there could be issues of traditional Indigenous birthing practices being appropriated, but with the work of Indigenous midwives it can be seen that it will most likely be incorporated into more birthing options in a respectful

Globally, skilled birth attendance rates have risen by 12% in countries that are considered developing, however, one third of women still deliver with an unskilled birth attendant. This statistic was eye-opening to me, because I think about how amazing birth attendants in the United States

THE ROLE OF THE MIDWIFE IN HOMEBIRTH Homebirth refers to the act of a woman giving birth at home and is typically attended to by an independently practising midwife. The midwife plays a vital role throughout the experiences associated with homebirths such as embracing a cooperative partnership between women, infants and

The partnership between a woman and her midwife is the key to a successful birth experience. This partnership is a professional friendship that allows midwives to get to know women and their bodies.