New Life Midwifery

11/01/2026

03/01/2026

Important Update on Home Birth Availability

As our midwifery team evolves, we want to keep you in the loop about what’s changing and how to stay connected with your care.

Midwife Jannie is now offering a significantly reduced caseload from July 2026 and Alex has relocated to the Gold Coast. This means that for clients in Ipswich and surrounding areas, Alex is only seeing repeat New Life clients but may consider new clients depending on caseload. You can also access care with Alex at .

We know so many of you value the relationship-based care that continuity midwifery provides. So this is our gentle reminder: if you are a previous client and discover you are pregnant, please contact us via email or text straight away. We are currently fully booked until August 2026, and we will continue to fill our calendar based on the bookings in the order they come in. Women are seeking us out at 5 weeks.

Did you know your private midwife can organise your early antenatal bloods and dating scans? For returning families, we bulk bill these via telehealth so please reach out early.

We are also able to support planned hospital births and we do have availability here but again, the earlier you reach out, the better.

We are hopeful to welcome a new full-time midwife to the team from August 2026. Until then, we thank you for your understanding and ongoing trust in us.

To enquire about availability or if you have any questions, please email:
midwife@newlifemidwifery.com.au

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24/11/2025

If you are a health care provider for maternity and did not know this….please check out Birth Small Talk and read the evidence.

Your regular reminder that the evidence doesn't stack up...

22/11/2025

Have you had a baby in the last 12 months?

Here's an opportunity to participate in research re: developing a validated tool to measure ethical care.

Have you had a baby in the last 12 months? If you're interested in completed this survey you'll find the link in comments.

What is this project about?
Ideally, every childbearing woman should receive care that is ethical during their perinatal experience (International Confederation of Midwives, 2017; World Health Organisation, 2015). The perinatal period is a time of significant physiological and psychosocial change and ethical care plays a critical role in shaping how these changes are experienced. The first empirical study of care ethics in midwifery by Australian researchers Buchanan and team (2023) defined ethical care as to practice in a woman-centred way that situates the woman as the ‘owner’ of her experience, and ethical care contributes to a sense of feeling empowered. The authors identified an absence of a valid and reliable instrument to measure ethical care in the perinatal period.

22/11/2025

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19/11/2025

The introduction of the Fetal Surveillance Education Program (FSEP) in Australia has been claimed to improve neonatal outcomes. However, the raw data suggests otherwise. A comprehensive literature review indicates inconsistent evidence for CTG training benefits. CTG education should not be mandatory!

https://birthsmalltalk.com/2025/11/19/does-training-in-intrapartum-fetal-monitoring-actually-work/