Midwife4You

11/05/2024

10/05/2024

NEW✨⭐️🌟
Midwife Led Antenatal Classes
Croydon and Caterham
Weds and Thurs 6:30pm-8:30pm
4 week course
Affordable, informative and Relaxed…

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Including everything late pregnancy
Birth Choices
Biomechanics for birth
Infant feeding
Caring for your Newborn
Plus much more…

Contact Lisa for more details
Midwife4You@outlook.com

01/01/2023

Happy New Year
Sending lots of luck and love for 2023 X

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

01/08/2022

Due to the unexpected loss of my mum this week, I am taking some time out from birth care.
From September I will be offering antenatal and postnatal support.
Please email if I can help in any way ###