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by Susanne Houd Abstract Introduction. From the 1950s women in Nunavik were transferred to South Quebec to give birth. Since 1986 women have had the opportunity to give birth in Povungnituk, […]
Author Archives: Jane Palmer
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by Sandy Kirkman When health professionals find themselves working in situations that seem, to them, to be wrong, it is easy to become discouraged. It is true that one single […]
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by Carolyn Hastie Definition of horizontal violence Horizontal violence is hostile and aggressive behaviour by individual or group members towards another member or groups of members of the larger group. […]
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by Maggie Banks This paper identifies some essentials of midwifery practice and looks at how the woman who may have additional care needs receives woman-centred care. Breech presentation will be […]
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by Lynne Staff This paper was presented at the Enriching Midwifery Conference, Australia, March 2000 for Birth International. What we did/do at Selangor Live the philosophy, breathe it and believe […]
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by Pat Brodie This paper will describe the process of improving maternity care through an innovative program, based at St George Hospital, that enabled the introduction of a community based […]
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Karen is a women’s health activist and feminist midwife. In fact, this is what Karen has been doing for the last 30 years! She is currently the National Director of the […]
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I completed my registered nurse training in Warrnambool, Victoria, in January 1987. After this I worked primarily in urban and rural/remote Indigenous communities of NT and Qld. I did this […]
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Sally Tracy trained as a midwife in New Zealand following the birth of her fourth child. After she returned to Australia, Sally carried out research both in hospital and community […]
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Susanne Houd is a Danish midwife with wide experience of working in both western settings and in developing countries. As a consultant for the WHO, she has worked on Safe […]
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Sandy Kirkman has a broadly based midwifery career which spans England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. She is now the Principal Lecturer at in the School of Care Sciences, University of […]
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Carolyn Hastie is a mother, grandmother, writer and midwife with a wealth of experience in all aspects of midwifery practice. Carolyn was the Midwifery Manager, Belmont Birthing Service and is […]
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Maggie Banks is a home birth midwife, researcher and writer living in the Waikato, New Zealand. She had her first book “Breech Birth Woman Wise” published in 1998. Following this […]
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Beatrijs Smulders is an independent midwife. Beatrijs plays a leading role not only in the development of midwifery and modern obstetrics in the Netherlands, but also in the preservation of the […]
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The majority of Australian midwives will know of Pat Brodie because of her work in developing ‘midwife-led’ models of care with a primary health care focus. Indeed, some of her […]
