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Skin-to-skin contact between a mother and baby at birth While facilitating immediate and uninterrupted skin-to-skin (S2S) for an hour after…

Students provide continuity for women – regardless of model Continuity of care, and continuity of carer, are terms which are…

Induction of labour, epidural analgesia, and caesarean section are now common themes in many women’s birth stories. Women are often…

Less than 10% of Australian women can access midwifery continuity of carer. This model provides women with a known and…

Key issues in early labour Early labour at home is a significant component of women’s birth experience. Women commonly feel…

  Research in context In Australia and many high-income countries, the rate of caesarean section (CS) is increasing. There is…

Continuity of midwifery care provides superior maternal and neonatal outcomes (Sandall et al., 2016). Access to continuity of care models…

Women value midwifery students and midwifery students value women. One Australian university has begun to collect routine, ongoing, web-based feedback…

Access to continuity of midwifery care (CoMC) models in Australia is increasing but the capacity of the emerging midwifery workforce…

First Nations women of Australia have given birth on their country and within their cultural practices for most of their…