Problem When midwives offer birth assistance at home birth and free-standing birth centres,
they must adapt their skill set. Currently, there are no comprehensive insights on the skills …

Background Safety in maternity care is a priority, and a broadened view of safety (eg,
emotional, psychological, cultural) is evident in scientific literature and in lay …

Background and problem During childbirth, one of the most common diagnoses of pathology
is 'failure to progress', frequently resulting in labour augmentation and intervention …

'... a groundbreaking work with the potential to fundamentally transform the current clinical
practice.'Evelyn Elsaesser, expert of death-related experiences and project leader of an …

Objective To explore women's and maternity care providers' experiences of birth, and the
roles of (bio) medical and experiential knowledge therein. Research design/setting In-depth …

There is growing concern that maternity research trends have enabled the proliferation of
medically orientated research methods. While this trend has helped demonstrate the safety …

Aim To understand and interpret the lived experience of newly qualified midwives (NQMs)
as they acquire skills to work in free‐standing birth centres (FSBCs), as well as the lived …

Problem Most hospital birth environments remain clinical in appearance and are not attuned
to the neurohormonal processes that orchestrate labour and birth. Hospital environments …

Objective: to understand the exercise of professional autonomy by obstetric nurses in
dealing with complications in planned home births. Methods: this is a qualitative study …

Objective: to understand the exercise of professional autonomy by obstetric nurses in
dealing with complications in planned home births. Methods: this is a qualitative study …